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Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge by Karine Chemla 9780822363729
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous-and still widely held-theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal... -
Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality by Steve Woolgar 9780199248759
Booksplease Price: £84.28This work investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). Are fundamental shifts already taking place in the way in which we behave, organize,... -
Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes by Massimo Mazzotti 9781138251380
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Investigating a theme first pioneered by Barry Barnes in the early 1970s, this volume explores the relationship between social order and legitimate knowledge and is intended as a tribute to Barnes'... -
Consumer Credit in the United States: A Sociological Perspective from the 19th Century to the Present by Donncha Marron 9780230615182
Booksplease Price: £46.74It is commonly imagined that in recent years the rampant growth of consumer credit has lured American consumers into a crippling state of indebtedness, a state that has upended old cultural values of... -
The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment: Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value by Horacio Ortiz
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The financial industry derives its legitimacy through the claim that it acts in the interest of shareholders. A vast international network of funds, banks, insurance companies, brokerages, rating... -
Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains by Koray Caliskan 9780231209588
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37The cryptocurrency world has transformed in a few short years from a niche subculture to a parallel economic universe, reaching a market capitalization of more than $2.5 trillion in 2021 before... -
Dunbar the Makar by Priscilla Bawcutt 9780198129639
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £51.56Dunbar's genius has been recognised not only by critics but by modern poets such as Auden and Eliot. This critical study examines Dunbar's view of himself as a poet, or `makar', and the way he... -
Financial Models and Society: Villains or Scapegoats? Ekaterina Svetlova 9781784710019
Booksplease Price: £96.15This innovative book employs the social studies of finance approach, which aims to enhance the dialogue between finance and sociology by addressing the blind spots of economic and financial theories... -
The Everyday Life of Global Finance: Saving and Borrowing in Anglo-America by Paul Langley 9780199236596
Booksplease Price: £82.13Grounded in literature from the sociology of finance and international political economy, and informed by extensive empirical research, The Everyday Life of Global Finance explores the unprecedented... -
Social Data Science Xennials: Between Analogue and Digital Social Research by Gian Marco Campagnolo 9783030603571
Booksplease Price: £55.35This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it. The book will be an invaluable reference for... -
Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience by John Law
Booksplease Price: £33.91In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways... -
Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains by Koray Caliskan 9780231209595
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The cryptocurrency world has transformed in a few short years from a niche subculture to a parallel economic universe, reaching a market capitalization of more than $2.5 trillion in 2021 before... -
Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience by John Law 9780822328124
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways... -
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism by Leon Wansleben
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £31.82A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant.While central banks have... -
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media by Alex Preda 9780231202466
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Financial experts have become ubiquitous on television, radio, and social media. They provide investment advice, interpret market movements, and explain the implications of political events, wielding... -
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media by Alex Preda 9780231202473
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Financial experts have become ubiquitous on television, radio, and social media. They provide investment advice, interpret market movements, and explain the implications of political events, wielding... -
Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity by Koray Caliskan 9780691142418
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, "Market Threads" presents a detailed analysis of the... -
The Everyday Life of Global Finance: Saving and Borrowing in Anglo-America by Paul Langley 9780199573967
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £50.15In the US and UK, saving and borrowing routines have changed radically and become closely bound-up with the capital markets of global finance. As mutual funds have increased in popularity and pension... -
Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped by Diane-Laure Arjalies 9780198802945
Booksplease Price: £52.80Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'chain': an often extended sequence of intermediaries... -
Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis by Paul Langley 9780199683789
Booksplease Price: £107.29Contributing to interdisciplinary debates in cultural economy and the social studies of finance, and grounded in extensive empirical research, Liquidity Lost offers an innovative analysis of how the... -
Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality by Steve Woolgar 9780199248766
Booksplease Price: £56.97Almost all aspects of social, cultural, economic and political life stand to be affected by the new electronic technologies. Virtual Society? is one vision of the consequential impact of these... -
Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity by Massimo Mazzotti
Booksplease Price: £30.43A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena. The nineteenth century opened with a major... -
The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis by Neil Fligstein
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the mortgage-securitization industry, which explains the complex roots of the 2008 financial crisis.More than a decade after the 2008 financial crisis... -
Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine by Isabelle Dussauge 9780199689583
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £112.68Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values. This volume articulates a pragmatist stance for the study of... -
Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity by Massimo Mazzotti 9780226826721
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.90A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena. The nineteenth century opened with a major... -
The Cultures of Markets: The Political Economy of Climate Governance by Janelle Knox-Hayes 9780198718451
Booksplease Price: £115.18Anthropogenic climate change poses a grave threat to societies around the world. The greenhouse gases that generate climate change are produced by virtually every sector of every economy. The... -
Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy by Jens Beckert 9780198820802
Booksplease Price: £110.12Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are... -
Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy by Jens Beckert 9780198846802
Booksplease Price: £41.57Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are... -
Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry by Paula Jarzabkowski 9780199664764
Booksplease Price: £60.57Reinsurance is a financial market that trades in the risk of unpredictable and devastating disasters - such as Hurricane Katrina, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and the terrorist attacks on the...