Arjen Van Der Heide
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 207418 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arjen Van Der Heide |
| NOMBRES | Arjen |
| APELLIDO | Van Der Heide |
| FIRMA | VAN DER HEIDE A |
| AFILIACIONES | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6878-4057 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The slumbering giant
Published online: 05 August 2025
Private Insurance, Public Welfare, and Financial Markets
Contemporary capitalist societies use different institutions to manage economic risks. While different public welfare state and financial institutions (banks, capital markets) have been studied across coordinated and liberal market economies, the different worlds of private insurance institutions have been understudied. Building on new insurance data sets (1880-2017), we find that countries with a Maritime (USA, GBR, CAN) in contrast to the more …
Financialization and assetization
Despite significant overlap, scholarship often distinguishes the concepts of financialization and assetization. While there are historical, ontological and conceptual reasons for this distinction, we argue that this may limit both perspectives’ analytical potential. In this paper, we develop a shared research agenda that brings together analytical strengths and core insights of both perspectives. We propose to use three notions of financial power…
The quiet side of debt
Whilst both the level and the make-up of public debt are high salience issues, the management of public debt seldom commands public attention. This study examines the quiet politics of public debt management in advanced capitalist societies, comparing debt management reforms and the everyday practice of debt management in Germany and the UK. We present evidence of two factors contributing to the political quietude around public debt management: a…
Does ownership matter? Claimant characteristics and case outcomes in investor-state arbitration
The power of foreign investors has become a key component in debates on sovereignty and globalisation. Here the mechanism of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which allows firms legal recourse against host governments, has come to the forefront of debates over corporate rights in the contemporary era. While proponents laud ISDS as a neutral and efficient means of dispute resolution, critics claim that it shields transnational corporations…
Talk the talk and walk the walk? European insurance capital regulation and the financial vocabulary of motive
Financialization’ refers to a variety of processes characterized by the increased prevalence of financial actors and logics in contemporary capitalist societies. Borrowing from Mills, I suggest that financialization may fruitfully be understood as the institutionalization of a financial vocabulary of motive. Mills argues that the type of reasons we give and the type of reasons we accept as legitimate varies, dependent on the social setting. The f…
Level up your money game
The idea of gamification, or implementation of game-like elements and mechanisms in non-game contexts, has, throughout the past decade, swept the fields of healthcare and fitness as well as education. More recently, various tech writers, bloggers, and consultants have begun proposing gamification as a solution also in financial services, where gamification has already made headway, for instance, with day trading apps that simplify trading and tur…
Why hasn't high-frequency trading swept the board? Shares, sovereign bonds and the politics of market structure
In today’s trading of liquid financial instruments, there are two main contending agencements (in Callon’s ‘actor-network’ sense of combinations of humans and nonhuman elements that manifest distributed agency): one agencement yokes together automated high-frequency trading (HFT) and open, anonymous electronic order books; the other is organized above all around the distinction between ‘dealers’ and ‘clients’. Drawing upon interviews with 321 mar…
Making financial uncertainty count
While most scholarship in the sociology of insurance has focused on the making of insurance risk by investigating mechanisms of pooling and spreading, this article examines insurers' management of financial uncertainty. Based on a large corpus of written sources and 44 semi-structured oral history interviews, this article seeks to describe and explain a shift in how financial uncertainty is dealt with in British life insurance, away from traditio…
Model migration and rough edges
The existing literature on modelling provides two main ways of viewing model migration: a modular view, which seeks to decompose models in their constitutive elements, and thus provides a view on what it is that migrates; and a practice-based view, which focuses on modelling as an activity, and understands a model as intricately entangled with its context of use. This article brings together these two sensitivities by focusing on ontologies of mo…
A History of British Actuarial Thought, by Craig Turnbull
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses
Dissertation defenses are ambiguous affairs, which mark both the end of a long process of doctoral education and the inauguration of a doctoral candidate into a body of experts. At Maastricht University (and other Dutch universities), the decision to award a doctoral degree is made on the basis of the written dissertation well before the defense, which makes the ambiguous status of the event between examination and celebration especially evident.…
Financialization and assetization
Despite significant overlap, scholarship often distinguishes the concepts of financialization and assetization. While there are historical, ontological and conceptual reasons for this distinction, we argue that this may limit both perspectives’ analytical potential. In this paper, we develop a shared research agenda that brings together analytical strengths and core insights of both perspectives. We propose to use three notions of financial power…
Level up your money game
The idea of gamification, or implementation of game-like elements and mechanisms in non-game contexts, has, throughout the past decade, swept the fields of healthcare and fitness as well as education. More recently, various tech writers, bloggers, and consultants have begun proposing gamification as a solution also in financial services, where gamification has already made headway, for instance, with day trading apps that simplify trading and tur…
Private Insurance, Public Welfare, and Financial Markets
Contemporary capitalist societies use different institutions to manage economic risks. While different public welfare state and financial institutions (banks, capital markets) have been studied across coordinated and liberal market economies, the different worlds of private insurance institutions have been understudied. Building on new insurance data sets (1880-2017), we find that countries with a Maritime (USA, GBR, CAN) in contrast to the more …
Talk the talk and walk the walk? European insurance capital regulation and the financial vocabulary of motive
Financialization’ refers to a variety of processes characterized by the increased prevalence of financial actors and logics in contemporary capitalist societies. Borrowing from Mills, I suggest that financialization may fruitfully be understood as the institutionalization of a financial vocabulary of motive. Mills argues that the type of reasons we give and the type of reasons we accept as legitimate varies, dependent on the social setting. The f…
The quiet side of debt
Whilst both the level and the make-up of public debt are high salience issues, the management of public debt seldom commands public attention. This study examines the quiet politics of public debt management in advanced capitalist societies, comparing debt management reforms and the everyday practice of debt management in Germany and the UK. We present evidence of two factors contributing to the political quietude around public debt management: a…
Why hasn't high-frequency trading swept the board? Shares, sovereign bonds and the politics of market structure
In today’s trading of liquid financial instruments, there are two main contending agencements (in Callon’s ‘actor-network’ sense of combinations of humans and nonhuman elements that manifest distributed agency): one agencement yokes together automated high-frequency trading (HFT) and open, anonymous electronic order books; the other is organized above all around the distinction between ‘dealers’ and ‘clients’. Drawing upon interviews with 321 mar…
Model migration and rough edges
The existing literature on modelling provides two main ways of viewing model migration: a modular view, which seeks to decompose models in their constitutive elements, and thus provides a view on what it is that migrates; and a practice-based view, which focuses on modelling as an activity, and understands a model as intricately entangled with its context of use. This article brings together these two sensitivities by focusing on ontologies of mo…
Making financial uncertainty count
While most scholarship in the sociology of insurance has focused on the making of insurance risk by investigating mechanisms of pooling and spreading, this article examines insurers' management of financial uncertainty. Based on a large corpus of written sources and 44 semi-structured oral history interviews, this article seeks to describe and explain a shift in how financial uncertainty is dealt with in British life insurance, away from traditio…
The slumbering giant
Published online: 05 August 2025
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses
Dissertation defenses are ambiguous affairs, which mark both the end of a long process of doctoral education and the inauguration of a doctoral candidate into a body of experts. At Maastricht University (and other Dutch universities), the decision to award a doctoral degree is made on the basis of the written dissertation well before the defense, which makes the ambiguous status of the event between examination and celebration especially evident.…
A History of British Actuarial Thought, by Craig Turnbull
Model migration and rough edges
The existing literature on modelling provides two main ways of viewing model migration: a modular view, which seeks to decompose models in their constitutive elements, and thus provides a view on what it is that migrates; and a practice-based view, which focuses on modelling as an activity, and understands a model as intricately entangled with its context of use. This article brings together these two sensitivities by focusing on ontologies of mo…
Why hasn't high-frequency trading swept the board? Shares, sovereign bonds and the politics of market structure
In today’s trading of liquid financial instruments, there are two main contending agencements (in Callon’s ‘actor-network’ sense of combinations of humans and nonhuman elements that manifest distributed agency): one agencement yokes together automated high-frequency trading (HFT) and open, anonymous electronic order books; the other is organized above all around the distinction between ‘dealers’ and ‘clients’. Drawing upon interviews with 321 mar…
Making financial uncertainty count
While most scholarship in the sociology of insurance has focused on the making of insurance risk by investigating mechanisms of pooling and spreading, this article examines insurers' management of financial uncertainty. Based on a large corpus of written sources and 44 semi-structured oral history interviews, this article seeks to describe and explain a shift in how financial uncertainty is dealt with in British life insurance, away from traditio…
Level up your money game
The idea of gamification, or implementation of game-like elements and mechanisms in non-game contexts, has, throughout the past decade, swept the fields of healthcare and fitness as well as education. More recently, various tech writers, bloggers, and consultants have begun proposing gamification as a solution also in financial services, where gamification has already made headway, for instance, with day trading apps that simplify trading and tur…
Does ownership matter? Claimant characteristics and case outcomes in investor-state arbitration
The power of foreign investors has become a key component in debates on sovereignty and globalisation. Here the mechanism of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which allows firms legal recourse against host governments, has come to the forefront of debates over corporate rights in the contemporary era. While proponents laud ISDS as a neutral and efficient means of dispute resolution, critics claim that it shields transnational corporations…
Talk the talk and walk the walk? European insurance capital regulation and the financial vocabulary of motive
Financialization’ refers to a variety of processes characterized by the increased prevalence of financial actors and logics in contemporary capitalist societies. Borrowing from Mills, I suggest that financialization may fruitfully be understood as the institutionalization of a financial vocabulary of motive. Mills argues that the type of reasons we give and the type of reasons we accept as legitimate varies, dependent on the social setting. The f…
The quiet side of debt
Whilst both the level and the make-up of public debt are high salience issues, the management of public debt seldom commands public attention. This study examines the quiet politics of public debt management in advanced capitalist societies, comparing debt management reforms and the everyday practice of debt management in Germany and the UK. We present evidence of two factors contributing to the political quietude around public debt management: a…
Private Insurance, Public Welfare, and Financial Markets
Contemporary capitalist societies use different institutions to manage economic risks. While different public welfare state and financial institutions (banks, capital markets) have been studied across coordinated and liberal market economies, the different worlds of private insurance institutions have been understudied. Building on new insurance data sets (1880-2017), we find that countries with a Maritime (USA, GBR, CAN) in contrast to the more …
Financialization and assetization
Despite significant overlap, scholarship often distinguishes the concepts of financialization and assetization. While there are historical, ontological and conceptual reasons for this distinction, we argue that this may limit both perspectives’ analytical potential. In this paper, we develop a shared research agenda that brings together analytical strengths and core insights of both perspectives. We propose to use three notions of financial power…
The slumbering giant
Published online: 05 August 2025
Economics (11 obras) · Finance (8 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Market economy (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Actuarial science (3 obras)