Chris Muellerleile
Biographic Data
| ID | 310293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Muellerleile |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Muellerleile |
| SIGNATURE | MUELLERLEILE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9685-6345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Market making and the (re)production of knowledge in public universities
This collection of short essays presents and examines six vignettes of organisational change in British, New Zealand and European universities. Drawing on the social studies of economisation literature, formal research projects and auto-ethnographic insights, the authors detail profound changes in how knowledge is produced in universities. They examine policy documents, calculative techniques and management practices to illustrate how proliferati…
Variegated intersections of neoliberalism and financialization
Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction
Re-assembling knowledge production with(out) the university
As an introduction to the themed issue, this paper interrogates the idea of university unbundling through a critical reading of Ronald Coase’s theory of transaction costs. Coase, who was initially interested in the structure of firms, later applied his transaction cost theory more broadly to anything that might be defined as ‘welfare’. Not unlike other abstract economic theories, in the age of market discipline, Coase’s ideas have been widely emp…
Digital Weberianism: Bureaucracy, Information, and the Techno-rationality of Neoliberal Capitalism
The social infrastructures that constitute both public and private administration are increasingly entangled with digital data, big data, and algorithms. While some argue that these technologies have blown apart the strictures of bureaucratic order, we see more subtle changes at work. We suggest that far from a radical rupture, in today's digitising society, there are strong traces of the logic and techniques of Max Weber's bureau; a foundational…
Calming Speculative Traffic: An Infrastructural Theory of Financial Markets
This article argues that the concept of infrastructure offers geographers a useful framework to understand the resilient influence of financial markets on the socioeconomy. An infrastructural perspective reframes the politics of financial markets by considering them as vital systems that are deeply integrated with the real economy. This helps explain the successful reframing of regulatory debates away from action that might shrink financial marke…
The moral economy of open access
Digital technologies have made access to and profit from scientific publications hotly contested issues. Debates over open access (OA), however, rarely extend from questions of distribution to questions of how OA is transforming the politics of academic knowledge production. This article argues that the movement towards OA rests on a relatively stable moral episteme that positions different actors involved in the economy of OA (authors, publisher…
Speculative boundaries: Chicago and the regulatory history of US financial derivative markets
This paper considers the history of governance and speculation on US derivative markets from their emergence in the middle of the 19th century through their incursion into finance in the late 20th century. It explores the importance of derivatives' extended ancestry in agricultural markets before analyzing their entanglement with financial markets, which came much later in the 1970s and 1980s. The paper is particularly concerned with the institut…
Making Market Rule(s)
Turning Financial Markets inside Out: Polanyi, Performativity and Disembeddedness
In light of the spread of markets across the globe and deeper into daily life, this paper argues for a more robust analysis and application of Karl Polanyi's conception of (dis)embedded markets coupled with the performativity thesis authored mainly by Michel Callon. It suggests that while disembeddedness as a concept is necessary for an analysis of contemporary financial markets that are increasingly self-referential, it is not sufficient. Despit…
Financialization takes off at Boeing
This article examines the 2001 dislocation of the headquarters of the iconic US aerospace company, Boeing, out of the Puget Sound region of the State of Washington, its ancestral manufacturing base. It argues the rationale for the exit was the desire on the part of Boeing's increasingly finance-focused executives to detach and disembed the 'brains' of the company from the product-focused, engineering-based corporate culture embedded in Puget Soun…
Circulating economic geographies: Citation patterns and citation behaviour in economic geography, 1982–2006
The paper presents a citation analysis of articles published in economic geography (broadly defined) in the period since the 1980s, with a supplementary analysis of significant books in the field. The overwhelmingly Anglocentric character of ‘international’ economic geography is reaffirmed, as both journal publishing and the citation ‘market’ are dominated by authors from the UK, US and Canada. There is some evidence, however, that the field is b…
Turning Financial Markets inside Out: Polanyi, Performativity and Disembeddedness
In light of the spread of markets across the globe and deeper into daily life, this paper argues for a more robust analysis and application of Karl Polanyi's conception of (dis)embedded markets coupled with the performativity thesis authored mainly by Michel Callon. It suggests that while disembeddedness as a concept is necessary for an analysis of contemporary financial markets that are increasingly self-referential, it is not sufficient. Despit…
Circulating economic geographies: Citation patterns and citation behaviour in economic geography, 1982–2006
The paper presents a citation analysis of articles published in economic geography (broadly defined) in the period since the 1980s, with a supplementary analysis of significant books in the field. The overwhelmingly Anglocentric character of ‘international’ economic geography is reaffirmed, as both journal publishing and the citation ‘market’ are dominated by authors from the UK, US and Canada. There is some evidence, however, that the field is b…
Financialization takes off at Boeing
This article examines the 2001 dislocation of the headquarters of the iconic US aerospace company, Boeing, out of the Puget Sound region of the State of Washington, its ancestral manufacturing base. It argues the rationale for the exit was the desire on the part of Boeing's increasingly finance-focused executives to detach and disembed the 'brains' of the company from the product-focused, engineering-based corporate culture embedded in Puget Soun…
The moral economy of open access
Digital technologies have made access to and profit from scientific publications hotly contested issues. Debates over open access (OA), however, rarely extend from questions of distribution to questions of how OA is transforming the politics of academic knowledge production. This article argues that the movement towards OA rests on a relatively stable moral episteme that positions different actors involved in the economy of OA (authors, publisher…
Calming Speculative Traffic: An Infrastructural Theory of Financial Markets
This article argues that the concept of infrastructure offers geographers a useful framework to understand the resilient influence of financial markets on the socioeconomy. An infrastructural perspective reframes the politics of financial markets by considering them as vital systems that are deeply integrated with the real economy. This helps explain the successful reframing of regulatory debates away from action that might shrink financial marke…
Speculative boundaries: Chicago and the regulatory history of US financial derivative markets
This paper considers the history of governance and speculation on US derivative markets from their emergence in the middle of the 19th century through their incursion into finance in the late 20th century. It explores the importance of derivatives' extended ancestry in agricultural markets before analyzing their entanglement with financial markets, which came much later in the 1970s and 1980s. The paper is particularly concerned with the institut…
Variegated intersections of neoliberalism and financialization
Making Market Rule(s)
Re-assembling knowledge production with(out) the university
As an introduction to the themed issue, this paper interrogates the idea of university unbundling through a critical reading of Ronald Coase’s theory of transaction costs. Coase, who was initially interested in the structure of firms, later applied his transaction cost theory more broadly to anything that might be defined as ‘welfare’. Not unlike other abstract economic theories, in the age of market discipline, Coase’s ideas have been widely emp…
Circulating economic geographies: Citation patterns and citation behaviour in economic geography, 1982–2006
The paper presents a citation analysis of articles published in economic geography (broadly defined) in the period since the 1980s, with a supplementary analysis of significant books in the field. The overwhelmingly Anglocentric character of ‘international’ economic geography is reaffirmed, as both journal publishing and the citation ‘market’ are dominated by authors from the UK, US and Canada. There is some evidence, however, that the field is b…
Financialization takes off at Boeing
This article examines the 2001 dislocation of the headquarters of the iconic US aerospace company, Boeing, out of the Puget Sound region of the State of Washington, its ancestral manufacturing base. It argues the rationale for the exit was the desire on the part of Boeing's increasingly finance-focused executives to detach and disembed the 'brains' of the company from the product-focused, engineering-based corporate culture embedded in Puget Soun…
Turning Financial Markets inside Out: Polanyi, Performativity and Disembeddedness
In light of the spread of markets across the globe and deeper into daily life, this paper argues for a more robust analysis and application of Karl Polanyi's conception of (dis)embedded markets coupled with the performativity thesis authored mainly by Michel Callon. It suggests that while disembeddedness as a concept is necessary for an analysis of contemporary financial markets that are increasingly self-referential, it is not sufficient. Despit…
Speculative boundaries: Chicago and the regulatory history of US financial derivative markets
This paper considers the history of governance and speculation on US derivative markets from their emergence in the middle of the 19th century through their incursion into finance in the late 20th century. It explores the importance of derivatives' extended ancestry in agricultural markets before analyzing their entanglement with financial markets, which came much later in the 1970s and 1980s. The paper is particularly concerned with the institut…
Making Market Rule(s)
Digital Weberianism: Bureaucracy, Information, and the Techno-rationality of Neoliberal Capitalism
The social infrastructures that constitute both public and private administration are increasingly entangled with digital data, big data, and algorithms. While some argue that these technologies have blown apart the strictures of bureaucratic order, we see more subtle changes at work. We suggest that far from a radical rupture, in today's digitising society, there are strong traces of the logic and techniques of Max Weber's bureau; a foundational…
Calming Speculative Traffic: An Infrastructural Theory of Financial Markets
This article argues that the concept of infrastructure offers geographers a useful framework to understand the resilient influence of financial markets on the socioeconomy. An infrastructural perspective reframes the politics of financial markets by considering them as vital systems that are deeply integrated with the real economy. This helps explain the successful reframing of regulatory debates away from action that might shrink financial marke…
The moral economy of open access
Digital technologies have made access to and profit from scientific publications hotly contested issues. Debates over open access (OA), however, rarely extend from questions of distribution to questions of how OA is transforming the politics of academic knowledge production. This article argues that the movement towards OA rests on a relatively stable moral episteme that positions different actors involved in the economy of OA (authors, publisher…
Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction
Re-assembling knowledge production with(out) the university
As an introduction to the themed issue, this paper interrogates the idea of university unbundling through a critical reading of Ronald Coase’s theory of transaction costs. Coase, who was initially interested in the structure of firms, later applied his transaction cost theory more broadly to anything that might be defined as ‘welfare’. Not unlike other abstract economic theories, in the age of market discipline, Coase’s ideas have been widely emp…
Market making and the (re)production of knowledge in public universities
This collection of short essays presents and examines six vignettes of organisational change in British, New Zealand and European universities. Drawing on the social studies of economisation literature, formal research projects and auto-ethnographic insights, the authors detail profound changes in how knowledge is produced in universities. They examine policy documents, calculative techniques and management practices to illustrate how proliferati…
Variegated intersections of neoliberalism and financialization
Economics (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (3 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (3 works)