MaxPo Newsletter

Fall 2014

Desmond King is the Andrew W. Mellon

Professor of American Government at

the University of Oxford and a Fellow of

Nuffield College Oxford since 2002. His

research falls into two main areas: the

politics of race in the United States and

the comparative political economy of la-

bor market policy and responses to the

2008 economic crisis. His publications

include Sterilized by the State: Eugenics

in North America (with Randall Hansen,

Cambridge, 2013), Still A House Divided:

Race and Politics in Obama’s America

(with Rogers M. Smith, Princeton, 2011)

and The Unsustainable American State

(with Lawrence Jacobs, Oxford, 2009).

He is presently finishing a book examin-

ing the causes of persistent material ra-

cial inequality in the United States and

a project with Lawrence Jacobs about

the Federal Reserve’s response to the

economic crisis of 2008. He was elected

a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003

and during 2013–2014 he was a Straus

Fellow at the NYU School of Law.

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Peter F. Cowhey is the Dean and Qual-

comm Professor of Communications

and Technology Policy at the School of

International Relations and Pacific Stud-

ies at UC San Diego. In 2009, he served

as Senior Counselor to Ambassador Kirk

in the Office of the U.S. Trade Represen-

tative where he advised on the agenda

for trade policy while supervising multi-

ple USTR offices. In the Clinton Admin-

istration he served as Senior Counselor

and then Chief of the International

Bureau of the Federal Communications

Commission during its overhaul of its

global competition policies and forg-

ing of a WTO agreement on telecom-

munications services. Cowhey is former

Director of the UC system’s Institute on

Global Conflict and Cooperation and

head of policy studies for the California

Institute on Telecommunications and

Information Technology. He serves on

several policy committees on innova-

tion and technology. His newest book

is Transforming Global Information and

Communications Markets: The Political

Economy of Change (MIT Press, 2009).

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Visitors and Speakers

MaxPo Visiting Scholar September 2014

MaxPo Visiting Scholar September 2014

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Poul Fritz Kj æ r is professor at the De-

partment of Business and Politics, Co-

penhagen Business School and principal

investigator of the European Research

Council project Institutional Transfor-

mation in European Political Economy –

a socio-legal approach (www.itepe.eu).

He is the author of Between Governing

and Governance: On the Emergence, Func-

tion and Form of Europe’s Post-national

Constellation (Oxford, 2010) and Consti-

tutionalism in the Global Realm: A So-

ciological Approach (London, 2014).

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Fabian Muniesa is senior researcher at

Mines ParisTech (Ecole des Mines de

Paris), where he directs the Observa-

tory for Responsible Innovation. He is

the author of The Provoked Economy:

Economic Reality and the Performative

Turn (Routledge, 2014). Working at the

interface of science and technology

studies and economic sociology, he has

been a long-time contributor to the so-

cial studies of finance. His current re-

search concentrates on the anthropol-

ogy of capitalization, funded by an ERC

Starting Grant.

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Marek Nac zyk is a postdoctoral re-

search fellow at the Department of So-

cial Policy and Intervention, University

of Oxford, and will start a postdoc at

the Centre d’Etudes Européennes de

Sciences Po in October 2014. His re-

search interests are in the politics of

welfare state change, of labour market

transformations and of corporate gov-

ernance reform. He is a graduate of Sci-

ences Po Paris and received his DPhil in

politics from the University of Oxford.

His current research projects focus on

the role of the financial industry in the

privatization of pensions and on the

links between pension privatization

and corporate governance reform.

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Visitors and Speakers

Pablo Zamith holds a Bachelor in eco-

nomics from the University of Laus-

anne and a Master in sociology from

the EHESS and Ecole normale

supérieure. He will be pursuing his PhD

under the joint supervision of Profes-

sors Olivier Godechot at Sciences Po

Paris and Paul Sabourin at the Universi-

ty of Montreal. Based on multi-sited

fieldwork in Canada, France and Swit-

zerland, his doctoral thesis focuses on

socialization processes in higher educa-

tion and on the formation of economic

opinions and attitudes.

Visiting Doctoral Students

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Activities

Visiting Doctoral Students

Francesco Findeisen studied sociolo-

gy, political science, and philosophy at

Humboldt University Berlin, New York

University (NYU), and the London School

of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

He earned his Master in economic so-

ciology from the LSE in 2014. Since 2011

he has been a member of the Einstein

Research Group, which is part of NYU

and LSE’s transatlantic research network

NYLON. His research explores the histo-

ry and social consequences of infrastruc-

ture finance and its interrelations with

infrastructure funding. It focuses on the

UK and the City of London.

MAXPO LECTURE

4 December 2014, 5–7 pm

Amphithéâtre Caquot

28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris

Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre:

La forme collection comme dispositif

de mise en valeur des biens

Luc Boltanski ranks among the most re-

nown sociologists of his time. With Lau-

rent Thévenot he coined a new sociolog-

ical theory of judgment, establishing the

grammatical structures of modern moral

judgments (De la justification, 1991 / On

justification, 2006), which he extended

with Ève Chiapello to the analysis of

the new capitalist ethos in the ear of

networks (Le nouvel esprit du capital-

isme, 1999 / The New Spirit of Capitalism,

2005). Futhermore, he conceptualized

the State as an actor instituting reality

(De la critique, 2009; Énigmes et com-

plots, 2012). He currently works with Ar-

naud Esquerre on the sociology of value.

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Arnaud Esquerre is a sociologist (CNRS–

LESC, Nanterre), who received his PhD

in sociology from the EHESS. His main

areas of expertise are the sociological

studies of cults (La manipulation men-

tale. Sociologie des sectes en France,

2009), death (Les os, les cendres et

l’Etat, 2011), and apocalyptic and astro-

logical predictions (Prédire. L’astrologie

en France au 21e siècle, 2013). He cur-

rently works with Luc Boltanski on the

sociology of value.

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Distinguished Speakers

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Activities

SCOOPS

13 October 2014, 12:30–2:30 pm

Salle Goguel

56, rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris

Poul Fritz Kjær: From (Neo-)Corpo-

ratism to Governance: The Evolution

and Crises of Intermediary Institutions

Discussant: Cornelia Woll,

Sciences Po – MaxPo

24 November 2014, 12:30–2:30 pm

Salle Goguel

56, rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris

Fabian Muniesa: Realizing

Business Value

Discussant: Daniel Benamouzig,

Sciences Po, CSO / CNRS

COOPS

13 November 2014, 12:30–2:00 pm

Salle H101

28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris

Marek Naczyk: Budapest in Warsaw:

Central European Business Elites and

the Rise of Economic Patriotism since

the Crisis

Discussant: Isabela Mares,

Columbia University

Seminar Series

New Publication and MaxPo Discussion Papers

Christian Baudelot, Damien Cartron,

Jérôme Gautié, Olivier Gaudechot,

Michel Gollac et Claudia Senik

Bien ou mal payés ? Les travailleurs du

public et du privé jugent leurs salaires.

Paris: Ed. ENS Rue d’Ulm, 2014.

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Olivier Godechot

The Chance of Influence: A Natural Ex-

periment on the Role of Social Capital

in Academic Hiring?

MaxPo Discussion Paper 14/1.

Henri Bergeron, Patrick Castel, and

Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier

Governance by Labels.

MaxPo Discussion Paper 14/2.