Sponsored by the Cultures of Finance Working Group, this series of meetings is open to invited members of the group. Each month's meeting will have a different theme, as announced and determined by the group. These thematic questions will be posted on this page and circulated to the group at least one week prior to every meeting. Out of these meetings will come ideas for collaborative writing projects and public events. The meetings will be recorded but these recordings will not be made public.
Generally, meetings will take place on the final Thursday of every month from 4:00 - 6:00pm, in the conference room at IPK. Group members, please RSVP with group member and administrator, Robert Wosnitzer, for each session.
IPK, 5th Floor Conference Room
This session, led by Martha Poon, will focus on the origin of managing the event of consumer default as a quantifiable risk. We will examine two moments of this history in tandem: the first a description of lending practices in the 1940-50’s when consumer loans were made based on controlling cost rather than risk (see abstract below); the second, the technical transition of the investor grade...
This is the first meeting of Cultures of Finance, and it is only open to members of the working group.
For our first meeting, Mary Poovey will lead a discussion centered on her recent work, "Stories We Tell about Liberal Markets: The Efficient Market Hypothesis and Great-Men Histories of Change." An abstract of Mary's paper is...
The sociologist Olivier Godechot conducts research for the Maurice Halbwachs Center at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and for the Quantitative Sociology Laboratory. His research focuses on wages and bonuses in the Financial Industry. Godechot also conducts research on the hiring processes and networks of the academic world.
He has published "Working Rich: Salaries, Bonus...