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I am the author of Conservatives Versus Wildcats: A Sociology of Financial Conflict (2013, Stanford University Press), where I develop a typology of banking to argue that the struggle between organizations embodying different banking strategies constitutes the central dynamic behind the expansion and contraction of financial systems (their boundaries are zones of conflict that regulate access to financial instruments).

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 particularits 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).