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WORKING PAPERS

From Census to Sensors: The Bureaucratic Regime and the Data Revolution (with Tyler McCormick, Adam Visokay, and Sarah Quinn)

Deadly Calculations: Our Self-Destructive Obsession with Mastering Risk (with Jathan Sadowski)

A Social Theory of Bubbles (with Thomas Haseloff)

Lost in Translation: The Qualification of Expertise in the U.S. Legal System (with Roi Livne)

Credit Scores and the Moralization of Inequality (with Kieran Healy and Alexander Roehrkasse)

Markets in Action: Social Order and Disorder in the Eurozone (with Caleb Scoville and Irem Inal)

The Type and the Grade: Wine Classifications and the Institutional Scaffolding of the Judgment of Taste (with Rebecca Elliott and Olivier Jacquet)

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Books
- The Ordinal Society
  
  Harvard University Press 2024, with Kieran Healy
- Zählen, benennen, ordnen: Eine Soziologie des Unterscheidens
  
  Hamburger edition, 2022
- Pandemic Exposures. Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus
  
  University of Chicago Press, HAU Books (ed. with Didier Fassin), 2021
- Economists and Societies
  
  Princeton University Press, 2009
selected articles
- The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning
  
  Sociological Methods and Research 2025 (with Sandrine Chausson, Björn Ross, David Harding and Gregory Renard)
- The Moral Economy of High Tech Modernism (with Henry Farrell)
  
  Daedalus 2023
- We are all political economists now
  
  Socio-Economic Review 2023
- The Great Online Migration: Covid-19 and the Platformization of American Public Schools.
  
  In Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade (eds.) Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus 2021
- Exposing and Being Exposed (with Didier Fassin)
  
  In Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade (eds.) Pandemic Exposures. Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus 2021
- The Society of Algorithms (with Jenna Burrell)
  
  Annual Review of Sociology 2021
- Ordinal Citizenship
  
  British Journal of Sociology 2021
- The Unbearable Rightness of Being Ranked: Response to Comments
  
  British Journal of Sociology 2021
- Learning Like a State: Statecraft in the Digital Age (with Jeffrey Gordon)
  
  Journal of Law and Political Economy 2020
- Loops, Ladders and Links: The Recursivity of Social and Machine Learning (with Fleur Johns)
  
  Theory and Society 2020
- Ordinality and its Discontents (in German, with Alexander Barnard)
  
  Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 2021
- A Maussian Bargain: Accumulation By Gift in the Digital Economy (with Daniel Kluttz)
  
  Big Data and Society 2020
- The Imperfect Promise of the Gift
  
  Humanity 2020
- Economics: The View From Below
  
  Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018
- The Fly and the Cookie: Alignment and Unhingement in 21st Century Capitalism
  
  Socio-Economic Review 2017 (SASE presidential address)
- The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital (with Rakesh Khurana)
  
  History of Political Economy 2017
- Seeing Like a Market (with Kieran Healy)
  
  Socio-Economic Review 2017
- Ordinalization
  
  Sociological Theory 2016
- Political Structures and Political Mores (with Evan Schofer)
  
  Sociological Science 2016
- Political Space and the Space of Polities (with Evan Schofer and Brian Lande)
  
  Poetics 2016
- The Superiority of Economists (with Etienne Ollion and Yann Algan)
  
  Journal of Economic Perspectives 2015
- Classification Situations (with Kieran Healy)
  
  Accounting, Organizations and Society 2013
- Moral Categories in the Financial Crisis (with Philip Steiner, Wolfgang Streeck, and Cornelia Woll)
  
  Socio-Economic Review 2013
- The Material and Symbolic Construction of the BRICS
  
  Review of International Political Economy 2013
- From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business (with Rakesh Khurana)
  
  Theory and Society 2013
- The Vile and the Noble: Natural and Social Classifications in the French Wine World
  
  Sociological Quarterly 2012
- Cents and Sensibility: Economic Values and the Nature of ‘Nature’ in France and America.
  
  American Journal of Sociology 2011
- The Problem of Embodiment in the Sociology of Knowledge
  
  Qualitative Sociology 2010
- Moral Views of Market Society (with Kieran Healy)
  
  Annual Review of Sociology 2007
- Theories of Markets, Theories of Society
  
  American Behavioral Scientist 2007
- The Construction of a Global Profession: The Transnationalization of Economics.
  
  American Journal of Sociology 2006
- The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed. Paths to Neoliberalism in Four Countries (with Sarah Babb).
  
  American Journal of Sociology 2002
- The Structural Contexts of Civic Engagement: Voluntary Association Membership in Comparative Perspective (with Evan Schofer)
  
  American Sociological Review 2001
- Politics, Institutional Structures and the Rise of Economics
  
  Theory and Society 2001
Selected Essays and Book chapters
- The Education of a Sociologist
  
  Sociologica 2018
- The Will to Progress and the Twofold Truth of Capital
  
  MaxPo Discussion Paper 2018 (pp92-96)
- La Logique de la note: les catégories morales dans l'ordre économique
  
  in C. Courtet et al., Le Désordre du monde. CNRS 2018
- State Metrology: The Rating of Sovereigns and the Judgment of Nations
  
  in Morgan and Orloff, The Many Hands of the State 2017
- Price and Prejudice: On Economics and the Enchantment/disenchantment of nature
  
  in Beckert and Aspers, The Worth of Goods 2012
Selected book reviews
- Review of Bruce Carruthers, The Economy of Promises
  
  Socio-Economic Review 2025
- Review of Virgina Eubanks, Automating Inequality
  
  European Journal of Sociology 2019
- Review of Adam Reich, Selling Our Souls
  
  British Journal of Sociology 2018
- Review of Wendy Espeland and Mike Sauder, Engines of Anxiety
  
  Socio-Economic Review 2018 (symposium contribution)
- Review of Iddo Tavory, Summoned
  
  European Journal of Sociology 2017
- Review of Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos
  
  European Journal of Sociology 2016 (symposium contribution)
- Review of Viviana Zelizer, Economic Lives
  
  Sociological Forum 2012
- Review of Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (with Dylan Riley and Cihan Tugal)
  
  Socio-Economic Review 2011 (symposium contribution)
- Review of Jeffrey Chwieroth, Capital Ideas
  
  The Economic History Review 2011