I am an economic sociologist interested in money (not so much in making it, but I accept donations). I subscribe to the view that capitalism is an inherently conflictual system, that capitalist conflict is always moralized, and that markets are the sworn enemy of capitalists. I teach in the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.

My first book is titled Conservatives Versus Wildcats: A Sociology of Financial Conflict (2013, Stanford University Press). It develops a typology of banking and argues that the struggle between organizations embodying different banking strategies is the source of money's value. 

A joint project (with Brad Pasanek), dealing with money, and more specifically with the history of the concept of liquidity, led to a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy. Routledge published it in January 2013 as a book. If you have $140 to spare, knock yourself out here.

Other works in progress include a series of empirical papers on generalized trust, and in particular its relationship with globalization; a set of theoretical and empirical papers on finance; and theoretical work on the sociology of the self (with Erika Summers-Effler).