{"id":2,"date":"2009-01-07T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T19:01:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-06T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T21:03:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic sociology examines the social underpinnings of money and markets. It\u2019s fun, and all the kids are doing it!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. For more about me and my work, click <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.cbs.dk\/research\/departments_centres\/institutter\/international_center_for_business_and_politics\/menu\/staff\/menu\/academic_staff\/academic_staff\/associate_professors\/bh\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a short summary of the field from my recent book, <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/8637.html\"><em>Pop Finance<\/em><\/a> (2008, Princeton University Press):<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%;margin-bottom: 2em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/files\/snippet-from-opening-of-section-1-on-economic-sociology_page_1-big.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/files\/snippet-from-opening-of-section-1-on-economic-sociology_page_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/files\/snippet-from-opening-of-section-1-on-economic-sociology_page_2-big.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/files\/snippet-from-opening-of-section-1-on-economic-sociology_page_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p>But also check out these \u201cGreatest Hits of Economic Sociology:\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marx.eserver.org\/1852-eighteenth.brumaire\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,\u201d<\/a> by Karl Marx<\/li>\n<li>Marx and Engels\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/marx.eserver.org\/1848-communist.manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Communist Manifesto\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Karl Polanyi\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/~taodesigns\/polyani\/polyani44IV.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Great Transformation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ne.jp\/asahi\/moriyuki\/abukuma\/weber\/world\/ethic\/pro_eth_frame.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,\u201d<\/a> by Max Weber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>About the banner<\/strong>: the artwork in our header is courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roby72\/\">Roby72<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roby72\/2401722298\/\">via Flicker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic sociology examines the social underpinnings of money and markets. It\u2019s fun, and all the kids are doing it! I&#8217;m an Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. For more about me and my work, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/economicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}