Alya Guseva
Biographic Data
| ID | 254137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alya Guseva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alya |
| FAMILY NAME | Guseva |
| SIGNATURE | GUSEVA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting
The moral economy of severe scarcity: How Considerations of Deservingness Shape Cloth Mask Distribution Practices in the Midst of a Global Health Crisis
Published version
Our First 20 Years
The launch of the Socio-Economic Review 20 years ago should have surprised no one with any scholarly interest in capitalism. The journal was the result of more than a decade-long intellectual movement that began with the creation of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in 1989 at the initiative of Amitai Etzioni. His communitarian vision, academic reputation and entrepreneurship attracted both top scholars and young researchers to t…
From the New Editors
It is a great honor to take over as Chief Editors of the Socio-Economic Review. We both have been long-term active contributors to SASE and great fans of the journal. In our first editorial, we will introduce ourselves and share our vision for the future of the journal and the new initiatives we would like to pursue. What makes this job both easy and impossibly hard is that we are replacing Gregory Jackson, who led the journal as Chief Editor sin…
The Expedient Lightness of Credit and the Surprising Truth about the American Developmental State
Healthcare
We review key policy and sociological work on several aspects of healthcare: the problems of the US healthcare delivery system and the history of health reform in the United States with occasional references to other peer countries; social determinants of health (socioeconomic status, race, and gender); medical professional dominance, its effect on patient care and on other health occupations, and its recent decline; medicalization and healthcare…
Consumer Credit Surveillance
This chapter reviews the development of consumer credit surveillance in the United States from the nineteenth century, as the original problem of information asymmetry in consumer lending gave rise to consumer data registries, a process led by merchants, not by financial institutions. Regulations in the 1970s addressing discrimination and data privacy limited consumer credit surveillance, but lately two developments reversed this trend. Aided by …
Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Time, role of the past and varieties of fictional expectations: Comments on Jens Beckert’s Imagined futures
Jens Beckert’s superb book builds on his earlier work analysing the nature of capitalism, the limitations of the economic approach, specifically rational choice theory, as an explanation for econom
Consumer Credit in Comparative Perspective
We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion. We describe the ways people interact with the strongly segmented consumer credit system around the world-more specifically, the way they access credit and the way they are held accountable for their debt. We then report on research on two areas in which consumer credit is consequential: i…
Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works
Money Talks, Plastic Money Tattles: The New Sociability of Money
Who Is in Charge of Family Finances in the Russian Two-Earner Households
Using a recent representative survey and supplemental interviews, we investigate household money management and domestic power dynamics in contemporary Russian two-partner families. During the Soviet period, it was women who typically managed household money. Today, while 45.6% of contemporary Russian two-partner households pool money and manage it jointly, and in about a quarter of families women are in charge, families with men in control of do…
Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia (translated by Yury Kapturevsky)
Авнер Грейф родился в
Incertitude et complémentarité: Le marché des cartes de crédit en Russie
L’article analyse l’apparition et le développement du marché des cartes de crédit en Russie postcommuniste. Ce type de marché est confronté à deux problèmes spécifiques : la complémentarité et l’incertitude. Les banques russes ont dès lors élaboré trois stratégies : la restriction de cartes aux élites nationales ou aux personnes liées personnellement aux banques émettrices – 1991-1995 ; l’émission massive de cartes salariales pour les employés pa…
Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow
Building new markets: A comparison of the Russian and American credit card markets
Journal Article Building new markets: a comparison of the Russian and American credit card markets Get access Alya Guseva Alya Guseva Department of Sociology, Boston University, USA Correspondence: Alya Guseva, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 96-100 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 3, Issue 3, Septembe…
What a Weberian approach to interests can contribute to economic sociology
Making Ends Meet in Contemporary Russia: Secondary Employment, Subsidiary Agriculture, and Social Networks
What Do You Know, Who Do You Know: School as a Site for the Production of Social Capital and its Effects on Income Attainment in Poland and the Czech Republic
This paper criticizes traditional approaches to stratification, which suggest that education contributes to inequality solely by endowing people with different amounts of human capital (knowledge and skills) or credentials. What these approaches overlook is the social component of education-friends, acquaintances and other connections one accumulates while in school. These connections reduce the uncertainty inherently present in the hiring proces…
Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust: Russian and American Credit Card Markets Compared
The strategies that Russian and American banks use to evaluate the creditworthiness of prospective credit card holders are compared. Drawing on Knight's theory of risk and uncertainty, the authors argue that uncertainty, inherent in any credit transaction, can only be reduced to measurable risk if there are institutions that create stability over time, categorize events properly, and allow for verification and accumulation of information. In the …
The Privileges of Past Communist Party Membership in Russia and Endogenous Switching Regression
Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust: Russian and American Credit Card Markets Compared
The strategies that Russian and American banks use to evaluate the creditworthiness of prospective credit card holders are compared. Drawing on Knight's theory of risk and uncertainty, the authors argue that uncertainty, inherent in any credit transaction, can only be reduced to measurable risk if there are institutions that create stability over time, categorize events properly, and allow for verification and accumulation of information. In the …
Consumer Credit in Comparative Perspective
We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion. We describe the ways people interact with the strongly segmented consumer credit system around the world-more specifically, the way they access credit and the way they are held accountable for their debt. We then report on research on two areas in which consumer credit is consequential: i…
The Privileges of Past Communist Party Membership in Russia and Endogenous Switching Regression
Building new markets: A comparison of the Russian and American credit card markets
Journal Article Building new markets: a comparison of the Russian and American credit card markets Get access Alya Guseva Alya Guseva Department of Sociology, Boston University, USA Correspondence: Alya Guseva, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 96-100 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 3, Issue 3, Septembe…
What Do You Know, Who Do You Know: School as a Site for the Production of Social Capital and its Effects on Income Attainment in Poland and the Czech Republic
This paper criticizes traditional approaches to stratification, which suggest that education contributes to inequality solely by endowing people with different amounts of human capital (knowledge and skills) or credentials. What these approaches overlook is the social component of education-friends, acquaintances and other connections one accumulates while in school. These connections reduce the uncertainty inherently present in the hiring proces…
Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Who Is in Charge of Family Finances in the Russian Two-Earner Households
Using a recent representative survey and supplemental interviews, we investigate household money management and domestic power dynamics in contemporary Russian two-partner families. During the Soviet period, it was women who typically managed household money. Today, while 45.6% of contemporary Russian two-partner households pool money and manage it jointly, and in about a quarter of families women are in charge, families with men in control of do…
Time, role of the past and varieties of fictional expectations: Comments on Jens Beckert’s Imagined futures
Jens Beckert’s superb book builds on his earlier work analysing the nature of capitalism, the limitations of the economic approach, specifically rational choice theory, as an explanation for econom
Consumer Credit Surveillance
This chapter reviews the development of consumer credit surveillance in the United States from the nineteenth century, as the original problem of information asymmetry in consumer lending gave rise to consumer data registries, a process led by merchants, not by financial institutions. Regulations in the 1970s addressing discrimination and data privacy limited consumer credit surveillance, but lately two developments reversed this trend. Aided by …
What a Weberian approach to interests can contribute to economic sociology
Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust: Russian and American Credit Card Markets Compared
The strategies that Russian and American banks use to evaluate the creditworthiness of prospective credit card holders are compared. Drawing on Knight's theory of risk and uncertainty, the authors argue that uncertainty, inherent in any credit transaction, can only be reduced to measurable risk if there are institutions that create stability over time, categorize events properly, and allow for verification and accumulation of information. In the …
The Privileges of Past Communist Party Membership in Russia and Endogenous Switching Regression
What Do You Know, Who Do You Know: School as a Site for the Production of Social Capital and its Effects on Income Attainment in Poland and the Czech Republic
This paper criticizes traditional approaches to stratification, which suggest that education contributes to inequality solely by endowing people with different amounts of human capital (knowledge and skills) or credentials. What these approaches overlook is the social component of education-friends, acquaintances and other connections one accumulates while in school. These connections reduce the uncertainty inherently present in the hiring proces…
Making Ends Meet in Contemporary Russia: Secondary Employment, Subsidiary Agriculture, and Social Networks
Building new markets: A comparison of the Russian and American credit card markets
Journal Article Building new markets: a comparison of the Russian and American credit card markets Get access Alya Guseva Alya Guseva Department of Sociology, Boston University, USA Correspondence: Alya Guseva, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 96-100 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 3, Issue 3, Septembe…
What a Weberian approach to interests can contribute to economic sociology
Incertitude et complémentarité: Le marché des cartes de crédit en Russie
L’article analyse l’apparition et le développement du marché des cartes de crédit en Russie postcommuniste. Ce type de marché est confronté à deux problèmes spécifiques : la complémentarité et l’incertitude. Les banques russes ont dès lors élaboré trois stratégies : la restriction de cartes aux élites nationales ou aux personnes liées personnellement aux banques émettrices – 1991-1995 ; l’émission massive de cartes salariales pour les employés pa…
Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow
Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia (translated by Yury Kapturevsky)
Авнер Грейф родился в
Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works
Money Talks, Plastic Money Tattles: The New Sociability of Money
Who Is in Charge of Family Finances in the Russian Two-Earner Households
Using a recent representative survey and supplemental interviews, we investigate household money management and domestic power dynamics in contemporary Russian two-partner families. During the Soviet period, it was women who typically managed household money. Today, while 45.6% of contemporary Russian two-partner households pool money and manage it jointly, and in about a quarter of families women are in charge, families with men in control of do…
Time, role of the past and varieties of fictional expectations: Comments on Jens Beckert’s Imagined futures
Jens Beckert’s superb book builds on his earlier work analysing the nature of capitalism, the limitations of the economic approach, specifically rational choice theory, as an explanation for econom
Consumer Credit in Comparative Perspective
We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion. We describe the ways people interact with the strongly segmented consumer credit system around the world-more specifically, the way they access credit and the way they are held accountable for their debt. We then report on research on two areas in which consumer credit is consequential: i…
Healthcare
We review key policy and sociological work on several aspects of healthcare: the problems of the US healthcare delivery system and the history of health reform in the United States with occasional references to other peer countries; social determinants of health (socioeconomic status, race, and gender); medical professional dominance, its effect on patient care and on other health occupations, and its recent decline; medicalization and healthcare…
Consumer Credit Surveillance
This chapter reviews the development of consumer credit surveillance in the United States from the nineteenth century, as the original problem of information asymmetry in consumer lending gave rise to consumer data registries, a process led by merchants, not by financial institutions. Regulations in the 1970s addressing discrimination and data privacy limited consumer credit surveillance, but lately two developments reversed this trend. Aided by …
Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
The Expedient Lightness of Credit and the Surprising Truth about the American Developmental State
From the New Editors
It is a great honor to take over as Chief Editors of the Socio-Economic Review. We both have been long-term active contributors to SASE and great fans of the journal. In our first editorial, we will introduce ourselves and share our vision for the future of the journal and the new initiatives we would like to pursue. What makes this job both easy and impossibly hard is that we are replacing Gregory Jackson, who led the journal as Chief Editor sin…
Our First 20 Years
The launch of the Socio-Economic Review 20 years ago should have surprised no one with any scholarly interest in capitalism. The journal was the result of more than a decade-long intellectual movement that began with the creation of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in 1989 at the initiative of Amitai Etzioni. His communitarian vision, academic reputation and entrepreneurship attracted both top scholars and young researchers to t…
The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting
The moral economy of severe scarcity: How Considerations of Deservingness Shape Cloth Mask Distribution Practices in the Midst of a Global Health Crisis
Published version
Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Financial system (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Credit card (3 works) · Finance (3 works)