Very interesting readings and recorded talks on various topics in Economic Sociology and Political Economy:

— How did curative medicines became financial assets dominated by strategies of speculation at the expense of access and care? Together with Amy Kapczynski and Lenore Palladino, Victor Roy discusses in this talk his new book Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (University of California Press, 2023)

— Noted (economic and organizational) sociologists tell how they come to work on the problems they do. Abbott, Bearman, Dimaggio, Fourcade, Swedberg, Czarniawska, Klinenberg and others gave diverse, insightful & brief responses collected in this Sociologica issue on “Heuristics of Discovery”

— “How Strategic Value and Sectors Shape Regulation and Governance”, Roselyn Hsueh’s video lecture, based on her recent book Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

— Recent works in historical economics, particularly outside of non-Western countries, have started incorporating data and tools from other fields, such as ethnographic data compiled by anthropologists — by Sara Lowes, a chapter included in the Handbook of Historical Economics, edited by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico

— How has poverty – and the powerlessness with which it is associated – emerged as a political tool and a formidable weapon in international negotiation? Amrita Narlikar reflects on her last book Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

— A recorded webinar on the contemporary study of regulation: interdisciplinary and international perspectives on the concepts, theories, practices, empirics and challenges, with authors and editors of the new Handbook of Regulatory Authorities.

— “Doing Business with Strangers: Jewish Enterprise Forms before Emancipation”, a lecture by Francesca Trivellato, an author of the award-winning book The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society (Princeton University Press, 2019)

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