Workshop

The Markets on Trial Workshop was held October 23-25, 2009 at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, IL. It was organized by Michael Lounsbury (University of Alberta) and Paul Hirsch (Northwestern University).

We brought together some of the most prominent economic sociologists in North America to conceptualize various dimensions of the current financial crisis as a way to take stock of how economic sociology more generally might be able to address such calamities, as well as highlight how the sociological imagination might be engaged to contribute to public policy and the construction of alternative institutional configurations to guide society and economy.

Papers ranged from more historical approaches that examined the sources of the crisis to more detailed archaeologies of how the crisis has unfolded and been managed.