Greta Krippner
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: 264 HAINES HALL
Phone: 3102674308
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
gkrippne@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Development, Comparative/Historical Sociology, Social Theory
Research Interests
The objective of my current research is to assess the significance of the growing salience of finance in the U.S. economy in the post-1970s period for debates on the nature of contemporary economic change. I seek to answer several questions about financialization: First, to what extent does the empirical evidence support the claim that we are living in a period in which we can reasonably describe the U.S. economy as having been “financialized”? In a related vein, if there is evidence for financialization, what do the data tell us about the particular timing and magnitude of this phenomenon? Second, what role has the state played in creating the conditions that have promoted and sustained financialization? Which state actors were involved in creating policies favorable to the turn to finance, and where did these policies produce lines of fissure, either within the state or between the state and relevant social actors? Third, how has the terrain upon which the state intervenes in the economy been reconfigured by processes associated with the financialization of the U.S. economy? Has the line between state and market effectively been redrawn in a world in which financial markets dominate the economy? I use each of these questions to critically interrogate one of three standard ways of thinking about the salient shifts that characterize recent historical experience: postindustrialism, globalization, and neoliberalism. In all three cases, I argue that an analysis of financialization can help us make sense of the proliferation of apparently new social forms that have been reshaping capitalist social relations since the 1970s—as well as the social and political limits associated with living in a time of such fervent experimentation.
Selected Publications
Greta R. Krippner and Anthony S. Alvarez. Forthcoming. "Embeddedness and the Intellectual Projects of Economic Sociology." Annual Review of Sociology 33.
Greta R. Krippner. 2005. “The Financialization of the American Economy.” Socio-Economic Review 3: 173-208.
Greta R. Krippner. 2005. Data Appendix to "The Financialization of the American Economy."
Tom Beamish, Nicole Biggart, Fred Block, Mark Granovetter, and Greta Krippner. 2003. “Polanyi Symposium: A Conversation on Embeddedness.” Socio-Economic Review 2: 109-135 (with Giovanni Arrighi, Michael Burawoy, John Hall, Gillan Hart, Youtien Hsing, Margie Mendall, Sean O’Riain, and Steve Vogel).
Greta R. Krippner. 2001. “The Elusive Market: Embeddedness and the Paradigm of Economic Sociology.” Theory and Society 30: 775-810.
Greta R. Krippner. 2001. “The Organization of Disorganization in Agricultural Labor Markets.” Politics & Society 29(3): 363-383.
Jane L. Collins and Greta R. Krippner. 1999. “Permanent Labor Contracts in Agriculture: Flexibility and Subordination in a New Export Crop.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 41(3): 510-534.
Greta R. Krippner. 1997. “The Politics of Privatization in Rural Mexico.” Politics & Society 25(1): 4-33.
Awards
American Sociological Association Dissertation Award for 2004.
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