Papers and Short Pieces

"Globalization Pressures and the State: The WorldWide Spread of Central Bank Independence." (with Mauro Guillén), American Journal of Sociology, 2005.

"Money, Moral Authority, and the Politics of Creditworthiness." American Sociological Review, 2011, June, 76(3): 437-464. Click here for a press release.

"Wildcats in Banking Fields: The Politics of Financial Inclusion." Theory and Society, 2011, July 2011, 40(4):347-383. (Online First article available here).

Guest editor, with Brad Pasanek, of special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy on money and metaphors, forthcoming. Click here for information on the conference where the papers in this issue were first presented, and here for the introduction to the volume.

"Banking," "Multilateral Development Banks," "SWIFT," Entries for The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, Edited by George Ritzer. 2012).

“Globalization: Civilizing or Destructive? An Empirical Test of the International Determinants of Generalized Trust.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 2012. 53(1):45–65. 

“Theorizing Efficient Markets: A Sociology of Financial Ideas.” European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie 56(01):11–37.

Wang, Yingyao and Simone Polillo. 2016. “Power in Organizational Society: Macro, Mesoand Micro.” Pp. 43–61 in Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory, Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, edited by S. Abrutyn. Springer International Publishing.

Polillo, Simone. 2017. “From Industrial Money to Generalized Capitalization.” Pp. 89–106 in Money Talks, Explaining How Money Really Works. Princeton University Press.

Polillo, S. 2018. “Creative networks and the determinants of intellectual recognition: Structural holes vs. mutual halos in financial economics and learning, speech, and hearing research.” Pp.125-50 in Ritual, Emotion, Violence: Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins (edited by Elliott Weininger, Omar Lizardo, and Annette Laureau. Routledge).

Polillo, Simone. 2018. “Market Efficiency as a Revolution in Data Analysis.” Economic Anthropology 5(2):198–209.

Polillo, Simone. 2020. “Solving the Paradox of Mass Investment: Expertise, Financial Inclusion and Inequality in the Politics of Credit.” Review of Social Economy 78(1):53–76. doi: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1669810.

Polillo, Simone. 2020. “Crisis, Reputation, and the Politics of Expertise: Fictional Performativity at the Bank of Italy.” Review of Social Economy 1–21. doi: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1857822.

Polillo, Simone. 2022. “From Collateral to Money: Social Meaning, Security Devices and the Law in the Depersonalization of Money.” Journal of Cultural Economy 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2028654

Polillo, Simone, and André Vereta-Nahoum. 2022. “Crisis: Sovereign or Distributed?” American Behavioral Scientist 000276422211448. doi: 10.1177/00027642221144842.