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We asked for resources and must-reads from SASE network and mini-conference organizers related to their fields.

January 15, 2011:

Alya Guseva and Akos Rona Tas co-organize Network N, Finance and Society, and recommend the following readings:

• An Engine not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets(2006), Donald A. MacKenzie. Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and New Investor Populism (2008), Brooke Harrington.Sociology of Financial Markets (2005), edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda. The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics (2008), Isaac W. Martin. Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (2001), Lendol Calder.
• Some articles: Daniel Beunza and David Stark (2004), Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room, Industrial and Corporate Change, 13(2): 369–400. Charles W. Smith (2007), Markets as Definitional Practices, Canadian Journal of Sociology, 32(1): 1–39. Jocelyn Pixley (2009), Time Orientation and Emotion-Rules in Finance, Theory and Society, 38(4):3830-400. Erik Larson (2010), Time and the Constitution of Markets: Internal Dynamics and External Relations of Stock Exchanges in Fiji, Ghana and Iceland, Economy and Society, 39(4):460-487. Sarah Quinn(2008), The Transformation of Morals in Markets: Death, Benefits, and the Exchange of Life Insurance Policies, American Journal of Sociology, 114(3):738-780.
• Recent popular literature on the financial crisis and Wall Street: When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (2001) by Roger Lowenstein. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves (2009) by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010) by Michael Lewis. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (2010) by John Cassidy. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (2010) by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance (2004) by Emanuel Derman. A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation (2008) by Richard Bookstaber. Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives (2010) by Satyajit Das.

January 7, 2011:

Ortrud Lessmann, Peter Bartelheimer and Wenzel Matiaske recommend the following readings for their mini-conference, The Capability Approach: A New Perspective on Labor Market and Welfare Policies?:

• Overview of the Capability Approach: Ingrid Robeyns(2005) The Capability Approach: A Theoretical Survey, Journal of Human Development 6 (1), 93-114. Erik Schokkaert (2007)The Capabilities Approach, Centre for Economic Studies, Discussion Paper Series 07.34, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,read pdf. David Clark (2005) The Capability Approach - It's Development, Critique and Recent Advances, GPRG-WPS-032, Global Poverty Research Group, read pdf.

• Recent publications on the labor market: Ana-Maria Lugo(2007) Employment: A Proposal for internationally comparable indicators, OPHI working Paper No. 2, read pdf. Lea Cassar(2010) Quality of Employment and Job-Satisfaction: Evidence from Chile, OPHI research in progress, RP 17a, read pdf.Alexander Goerne (2010) The Capability Approach in Social Policy Analysis, REC-WP 03/2010, Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe, read pdf.

Francois Michon, Silvia Dorado-Banacloche, Royston Greenwood, Paul Hirsch and Bas Koene recommend the following readings for their mini-conference, Nonstandard Employment Across Disciplinary Boundaries:

• English: Caroli E., Gautié J., et al. (2010), Delivering Flexibility: Contrasting Patterns in the French and the UK Food Processing Industry, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 48, 2, April, p. 284-309. Broughton A., Biletta I. et Kullander M. (2010), Flexible forms of work: ‘very atypical’ contractual arrangements, Dublin, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Eurofound, 40 p. Socio Économie du Travail AB 28 (Économies et Sociétés, n°6, 2007, p. 891-1097), special delivery Is the concept of labour market segmentation still accurate?, F. Michon and H. Petit, eds.
• French: Belkacem R., Kornig C and Michon F. (ed.) (2010), L'intérim dans tous ses états, Paris, l'Harmattan, 470 p. Kornig C. et F. Michon, Les formes particulières d’emploi en France : un état des lieux, Paris, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne, document de travail n° 2010-82, 57 p.

Aaron Major and Diego Sanchez-Ancochea recommend the following readings for their mini-conference, Development in Crisis:

• Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo, 2010, All is quiet on the fiscal front: Fiscal policy for the global economic crisis, Working Paper No: 2010-02, University of Utah, Department of Economics, read pdf.

• Liaquat Ahamed (2010), Lords of Finance, Penguin Press. Sarah Babb (2009), Behind the Development Banks, University of Chicago Press. Nina Bandelj (2009), The global economy as instituted process, American Sociological Review 74: 128-149. Jeffrey Chwieroth (2010), Capital Ideas, Princeton University Press. Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson (2010), Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States, Politics & Society 38: 152-204. Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein (2010), The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001, American Sociological Review, 75.

Dieter Plehwe, David Levi-Faur and David Miller recommend the following readings for their mini-conference, The Rise and Decline of Neoliberalism: Scientific Communities, Political Technocracy, and Regulatory Regimes:

• Steven P. Croley, 2010, Regulation and Public Interests: The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government, Princeton University Press. Janine Wedel, 2009, Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market, Basic Books. William K. Carroll, 2010, Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class, Zed Books. Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack (eds.), Transnational Communities Shaping Global Economic Governance, Cambridge University Press, 2010. Frank Fischer, 2009, Democracy & Expertise, Oxford University Press. Philip Mirwoski, Dieter Plehwe, 2009, The Road from Mont Pèlerin. The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, Harvard University Press.

Sabina Avdagic and Luccio Baccaro co-organize Network E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy, and offer these new resources for those interested in the main topics covered by their network:

• The OECD has recently released two volumes on the political economy of reforms: Making Reforms Happen: Lessons from OECD Countries and William Tompson, The Political Economy of Reform: Lessons from Pensions, Product Markets and Labour Markets in Ten OECD Countries
• In the area of industrial relations and corporatist policy-making, the following sources may be of interest: The Socio-Economic Review discussion forum on Labour and the Global Financial Crisis with contributions from Lucio Baccaro, Robert Boyer, Colin Crouch, Marino Regini, Paul Marginson, Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, and Ruth Milkman.

Kerstin Hamann and John Kelly, Parties, Elections and Policy Reforms in Western Europe: Voting for Social Pacts (Routledge, 2010).

Sabina Avdagic, Martin Rhodes and Jelle Visser, eds. Social Pacts in Europe: Emergence, Evolution and Institutionalization (Oxford University Press, 2011).

• On institutional change in contemporary capitalisms we suggest Wolfgang Streeck, Re-Forming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2009).
• On the role of business in policy-making we suggest Pepper Culpepper, Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

David Bartram co-organizes Network I: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, and recommends these resources for those interested in his topic:

• Joanna Dreby (2010), Divided By Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children, Berkeley: University of California Press. Daniel Gilbert, (2006), Stumbling on happiness,New York: HarperCollins.

December 17, 2010:

Sebastien Lechevalier and Cornelia Storz recommend the following readings for their mini-conference, Capitalism in Asia: Sustained Diversity or Increasing Coherence?:

• Two recent references: Masahiko Aoki's Corporations in Evolving Diversity. Cognition, Governance, and Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Cornelia Storz and Sebastian Schäfer's Institutional Diversity and Innovation: Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China (Routledge, 2011)

• Pertinent articles: S. Casper & R. Whitley (2004): "Managing competences in entrepreneurial technology firms: a comparative institutional analysis of Germany, Sweden and the UK," in Research Policy (33(1): 89–106); S. Lechevalier (2007), "The Diversity of Capitalism and Heterogeneity of Firms. A case study of Japan during the Lost Decade," Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review (4(1): 113-142); C. Storz (2008), "Dynamics in Innovation Systems: Evidence from Japan's Game Software Industry, Research Policy Reference," Research Policy (37: 1480-149).

• Both published in 2007, these references are quite helpful: Masahiko Aoki, Gregory Jackson, and Hideaki Miyajima's Corporate Governance in Japan. Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity (Oxford University Press) and Yves Tiberghien's Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (Cornell University Press).

December 6, 2010:

Alexander Ebner and Patrick Sachweh recommend the following readings for their mini-conference, Marketization of the Social: Strategies, Policies, and Implications:

• A few recent references: Willem Adema and Peter Whiteford's "Public and Private Social Welfare" (pp. 121-138) in The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, published by Oxford University Press in 2010 (edited by Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson) as well as Public and Private Social Policy. Health and Pension Politics in a New Era, edited by Daniel Bélan and Brian Grand (Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008)

• For an empirical macro-perspective on recent transformations of capitalism, the following working paper is highly insightful (unfortunately, up to now only available in German: Martin Höpner, Alexander Petring, Daniel Seikel, Benjamin Werner (2009): Liberalisierungspolitik. Eine Bestandsaufnahme von zweieinhalb Dekaden marktschaffender Politik in entwickelten Industrieländern. MPIfG Discussion Paper 2009/7. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung.

• A little older but still useful are also the following references: Peter Taylor-Gooby, Trine  Larsen, and Johannes Kananen's "Market Means and Welfare Ends: The UK Welfare State Experiment" in the Journal of Social Policy (2004, 33: 573-592) and John Dixon and Mark Hyde's The Marketization of Social Security (Westport, CT/London: Quorum Books, 2001).

December 1, 2010:

Since China is a vast subject - geographically and intellectually - a few more readings from Geny Piotti, Tobias ten Brink, and Christopher McNally, who are also co-organizers of China and Contemporary Capitalism: Political, Business and Socio-Economic Trends:

• On China's economy, two works by Barry Naughton: The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, published by MIT Press and The Policy Challenges of Post-Stimulus Growth

• On the party-state and society, Yongnian Zheng's The Chinese Communist Party As Organizational Emperor: Culture, Reproduction and Transformation (London and New York: Routledge, 2010). Martin King Whyte's Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press, 2010), and Hong Cheng and Kara Chan's Advertising and Chinese Society (Copenhagen Business School Press, 2009)

• On China in the global system: Martin Jacques' When China Rules the World – The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (New York: Penguin Press, 2009). Jeffrey Frieden's Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (New York: Norton, 2006) Stephen Cohen and Brad DeLong's The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money (New York: Basic Books, 2010)

November 17, 2010:

The co-organizers of China and Contemporary Capitalism: Political, Business and Socio-Economic Trends offer these resources for those interested in their topic:

• Jean-François Huchet recommends: State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery, by Atul Kohli, published by Cambridge University Press. He also recommends Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger's article, "A Chinese State enterprise under the Reforms: What Model of Capitalism?" which appeared in the July 2009 issue of The China Journal, (n°62, pp; 1-26)

• Tobias ten Brink recommends: When China Rules the World – The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, by Jacques Martin, published by Penguin Press, as well as two works by Barry Naughton: The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, published by MIT Press and The Policy Challenges of Post-Stimulus Growth and The Chinese Communist Party As Organizational Emperor: Culture, Reproduction and Transformation, by Yongnian Zheng, published by Routledge Press

• Thomas Gold recommends: Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics, by Yasheng Huang, and Dragon in a Three Piece Suit, by Douglas Guthrie, both published by Cambridge University Press.

November 9, 2010:

Gary Gereffi co-organizes Network O, Global Value Chains, and offers these new resources for those interested in his topic:

• The World Bank has just released Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: A Development Perspective, available here through the World Bank's eLibrary. A pdf version of the book can be accessed and downloaded from the CGGC website at Duke University. The book focuses on how the structure and dynamics of various global industries have been affected by the global economic crisis of 2008-09.

• Gary co-edited the World Bank book with Olivier Cattaneo, Cornelia Staritz, and will also be co-editing a special issue of the International Journal of Techological Learning, Innovation and Development (IJTLID) on "Global value chains, shifting end markets, and the prospects for upgrading (or downgrading) in developing countries" in 2011 - authors will include his fellow network organizer Eric Thun.

• A newly released special issue of the journal, Business and Politics, on "Private Regulation in the Global Economy" may also be of interest; there are a number of articles there that relate quite closely to core topics in SASE.

• A related program at Duke called "Rethinking Regulation," organized by Ed Balleisen in the History Department, might also be a source of ideas and intellectual exchange with SASE.