Papers

Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis (2011, Emerald) include the following contributions:

Introduction to the special 2 volume set

Markets on Trial: Towards a Policy-Oriented Economic Sociology 
Michael Lounsbury (University of Alberta) and Paul M. Hirsch (Northwestern University)

 

The Financial Crisis and its Unfolding

The Anatomy of the Mortgage Securitization Crisis
Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein (University of California at Berkeley)

The Structure of Confidence and the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Richard Swedberg (Cornell University)

The Role of Ratings in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: The Art of Corporate and the Science of Consumer Credit Rating
Akos Rona-Tas (University of California at San Diego) and Stefanie Hiss (University of Jena)

Knowledge and Liquidity: Institutional and Cognitive Foundations of the SubPrime Crisis
Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern University)

Terminal Isomorphism and the Self-Destructive Potential of Success: Lessons from Sub-Prime Mortgage Origination and Securitization
Jo-Ellen Pozner (University of California at Berkeley), Mary Katherine Stimmler (University of California at Berkeley) & Paul Hirsch (Northwestern University)

 

The Normal Accident Perspective

A Normal Accident Analysis of the Mortgage Meltdown
Don Palmer and Michael Maher (University of California at Davis)

The Global Crisis of 2007-2009: Markets, Politics, and Organizations
Mauro F. Guillén (University of Pennsylvania) and Sandra L. Suárez (Temple University)

Regulating and Redesigning Finance: Market Architectures, Normal Accidents and Dilemmas of Regulatory Reform
Marc Schneiberg (Reed College) and Tim Bartley (Indiana University)

The Meltdown was not an Accident
Charles Perrow (Yale University)

Historical Origins of the U.S. Financial Crisis

The Misapplication of Mr. Michael Jensen: How Agency Theory Brought Down the Economy and Why it Might Again
Frank Dobbin and Jiwook Jung (Harvard University)

Neoliberalism in Crisis: Regulatory Roots of the U.S. Financial Meltdown
John Campbell (Dartmouth College)

The American Corporate Elite and the Historical Roots of the Financial Crisis of 2008
Mark Mizruchi (University of Michigan)

The Political Economy of Financial Exuberance
Greta Krippner (University of Michigan)

Crisis Production: Speculative Bubbles and Business Cycles

The Institutional Embeddedness of Market Failure: Why Speculative Bubbles Still Occur
Mitch Abolafia (State University of New York at Albany)

The Social Construction of Causality: The Effects of Institutional Myths on Financial Regulation
Anna Rubtsova (Emory University), Rich DeJordy (Boston College), Mary Ann Glynn (Boston College) and Mayer Zald (University of Michigan)

Business Cycles, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Crisis in the Commercial Building Market: Toward a Mesoeconomics
Tom Beamish and Nicole Biggart (University of California at Davis)

 

Comparative Institutional Dynamics

Through the Looking Glass: Inefficient Deregulation in the United States and Efficient State-Ownership in China
Doug Guthrie and David Slocum (New York University)

Precedence for the Unprecedented: A Comparative Institutionalist View of the Financial Crisis
Gerald McDermott (University of South Carolina)

 

A Future Society and Economy

After the Ownership Society: Another World is Possible
Jerry Davis (University of Michigan)

 

Postscripts

What If We Had Been in Charge? The Sociologist as Builder of Rational Institutions
Ezra Zuckerman (MIT)

The Future of Economics, New Circuits for Capital, and Re-envisioning the Relation of State and Market
Fred Block (University of California at Davis)