Greta Krippner
Biographic Data
| ID | 331790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greta Krippner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greta |
| FAMILY NAME | Krippner |
| SIGNATURE | KRIPPNER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5303-1332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1032 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Symposium on The Ordinal Society
On 'Left Neoliberalism: Parsing the Politics of Freedom
Toward a Sociology of Contract
Economic sociology has neglected contract as an institutional foundation for market relations. It has also given inadequate attention to the role of forms of social difference such as race, gender, and sexuality in constituting market exchange. We argue that these omissions share common origins in the status/contract division that figured prominently in nineteenth-century sociological and legal thinking. In excavating these origins, we trace two …
Leviathan financialized
InThe Rise of Central Banks, Leon Wansleben provides a perceptive account of the evolution of central banking practices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland from the 1970s through the subprime mortgage crisis and the global pandemic. Focusing on the concrete practices of monetary policymakers, Wansleben usefully explores the relationship between the development of novel techniques of monetary policy implementation an…
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets
This article explores the reasons for the stubborn persistence of gender discrimination in insurance long after gender classifications have been banned in employment, housing, and credit markets. In order to understand why insurance is the last bastion of overt, legally sanctioned discrimination in the post–Civil Rights era, I draw on a historical analysis of political contestation surrounding insurers’ pricing practices in life and auto insuranc…
Unmasked: A History of the Individualization of Risk
In this article, I explore how risk transformed from being understood as a property of groups to being understood as a property of individuals by examining the history of public and private insurance in the United States. Rather than locate changes in how risk is managed in our society in the 'great risk shift' that occurred with the emergence of neoliberalism, I suggest the individualization of risk in recent decades is only the latest instantia…
The person of the category: The Pricing of Risk and the Politics of Classification in Insurance and Credit
Love and Marxism
Erik Olin Wright's scholarship is often considered to be formed by two entirely disjoint projects represented by his early work on class analysis and his later writings on 'real utopias.' This essay uses Michael Burawoy's recent formulation of the 'two Marxisms' thesis as a foil to argue for the continuities rather than discontinuities in the body of work produced by Wright. More particularly, the critical spirit of the real utopias project infus…
In Search of Homo Familialus? - Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (New York NY, Zone Books, 2017)
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The Politics of Financialization: An Interview with Greta Krippner
The route to political studies of financialization RR: If you could you come back on the very beginning of your academic career, how did you come to study financialization and what was your perception of the distinctive US fields of research involved in financial issues? In the 1990s, social studies of finance were still in their early years. GK: When I began graduate studies in the mid-1990s, there was a lot of interest in trying to understand t…
Polanyi for the Age of Trump
Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late Twentieth-Century America
In recent years, sociologists have noted the increasing centrality of credit for determining life chances in our society, but they have not given adequate attention to the credit market as a key site where individuals assert claims over economic resources. This article explores distinctive features of the credit transaction that differentiate claims making in the credit market from more familiar forms of claims making in the labor market. Rather …
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
On Capitalism
Embeddedness and the Intellectual Projects of Economic Sociology
In this review, we explore how the concept of embeddedness has shaped-and been shaped by-the evolution of the subfield of economic sociology. Although embeddedness is often taken as a conceptual umbrella for a single, if eclectic, approach to the sociological study of the economy, we argue that in fact the concept references two distinct intellectual projects. One project, following from Granovetter's (1985) well-known programmatic statement, att…
The making of US monetary policy: Central bank transparency and the neoliberal dilemma
The financialization of the American economy
This paper presents systematic empirical evidence for the financialization of the US economy in the post-1970s period. While numerous researchers have noted the increasing salience of finance, there have been few systematic attempts to consider what this shift means for the nature of the economy, considered broadly. In large part, this omission reflects the considerable methodological difficulties associated with using national economic data to a…
Polanyi Symposium: A Conversation on Embeddedness
Journal Article Polanyi Symposium: a conversation on embeddedness Get access Greta Krippner, Greta Krippner Affiliations and correspondence: see cast of characters, p. 134 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Granovetter, Mark Granovetter Affiliations and correspondence: see cast of characters, p. 134 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fred Block, Fred Block Affiliatio…
The elusive market: Embeddedness and the paradigm of economic sociology
The Organization of Disorganization in Agricultural Labor Markets
This article examines the organizational prerequisites of competitive labor markets through an account of the restructuring of Mexico's export tomato industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Agricultural labor markets are typically taken as paradigm cases of competitive labor markets, the closest real-world approximation to the spot market of economic theory. Yet, this case demonstrates that such markets are deeply structured through the activities of pr…
Permanent Labor Contracts in Agriculture: Flexibility and Subordination in a New Export Crop
Accounts of late-twentieth-century capitalist restructuring have emphasized the decline of “permanent” work contracts and the growth of more “flexible” ways of employing labor. Most of these accounts have argued that, under conditions of global competition, firms seek to reduce the cost of wages and benefits by hiring more temporary workers. Such accounts assume permanent labor contracts to be a norm that is violated only when economic systems co…
The Politics of Privatization in Rural Mexico
The financialization of the American economy
This paper presents systematic empirical evidence for the financialization of the US economy in the post-1970s period. While numerous researchers have noted the increasing salience of finance, there have been few systematic attempts to consider what this shift means for the nature of the economy, considered broadly. In large part, this omission reflects the considerable methodological difficulties associated with using national economic data to a…
The elusive market: Embeddedness and the paradigm of economic sociology
Embeddedness and the Intellectual Projects of Economic Sociology
In this review, we explore how the concept of embeddedness has shaped-and been shaped by-the evolution of the subfield of economic sociology. Although embeddedness is often taken as a conceptual umbrella for a single, if eclectic, approach to the sociological study of the economy, we argue that in fact the concept references two distinct intellectual projects. One project, following from Granovetter's (1985) well-known programmatic statement, att…
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
Polanyi Symposium: A Conversation on Embeddedness
Journal Article Polanyi Symposium: a conversation on embeddedness Get access Greta Krippner, Greta Krippner Affiliations and correspondence: see cast of characters, p. 134 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Granovetter, Mark Granovetter Affiliations and correspondence: see cast of characters, p. 134 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fred Block, Fred Block Affiliatio…
Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late Twentieth-Century America
In recent years, sociologists have noted the increasing centrality of credit for determining life chances in our society, but they have not given adequate attention to the credit market as a key site where individuals assert claims over economic resources. This article explores distinctive features of the credit transaction that differentiate claims making in the credit market from more familiar forms of claims making in the labor market. Rather …
The making of US monetary policy: Central bank transparency and the neoliberal dilemma
The person of the category: The Pricing of Risk and the Politics of Classification in Insurance and Credit
Unmasked: A History of the Individualization of Risk
In this article, I explore how risk transformed from being understood as a property of groups to being understood as a property of individuals by examining the history of public and private insurance in the United States. Rather than locate changes in how risk is managed in our society in the 'great risk shift' that occurred with the emergence of neoliberalism, I suggest the individualization of risk in recent decades is only the latest instantia…
Permanent Labor Contracts in Agriculture: Flexibility and Subordination in a New Export Crop
Accounts of late-twentieth-century capitalist restructuring have emphasized the decline of “permanent” work contracts and the growth of more “flexible” ways of employing labor. Most of these accounts have argued that, under conditions of global competition, firms seek to reduce the cost of wages and benefits by hiring more temporary workers. Such accounts assume permanent labor contracts to be a norm that is violated only when economic systems co…
The Politics of Privatization in Rural Mexico
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
Polanyi for the Age of Trump
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets
This article explores the reasons for the stubborn persistence of gender discrimination in insurance long after gender classifications have been banned in employment, housing, and credit markets. In order to understand why insurance is the last bastion of overt, legally sanctioned discrimination in the post–Civil Rights era, I draw on a historical analysis of political contestation surrounding insurers’ pricing practices in life and auto insuranc…
The Organization of Disorganization in Agricultural Labor Markets
This article examines the organizational prerequisites of competitive labor markets through an account of the restructuring of Mexico's export tomato industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Agricultural labor markets are typically taken as paradigm cases of competitive labor markets, the closest real-world approximation to the spot market of economic theory. Yet, this case demonstrates that such markets are deeply structured through the activities of pr…
In Search of Homo Familialus? - Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (New York NY, Zone Books, 2017)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Privatization in Rural Mexico
Permanent Labor Contracts in Agriculture: Flexibility and Subordination in a New Export Crop
Accounts of late-twentieth-century capitalist restructuring have emphasized the decline of “permanent” work contracts and the growth of more “flexible” ways of employing labor. Most of these accounts have argued that, under conditions of global competition, firms seek to reduce the cost of wages and benefits by hiring more temporary workers. Such accounts assume permanent labor contracts to be a norm that is violated only when economic systems co…
The Organization of Disorganization in Agricultural Labor Markets
This article examines the organizational prerequisites of competitive labor markets through an account of the restructuring of Mexico's export tomato industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Agricultural labor markets are typically taken as paradigm cases of competitive labor markets, the closest real-world approximation to the spot market of economic theory. Yet, this case demonstrates that such markets are deeply structured through the activities of pr…
The elusive market: Embeddedness and the paradigm of economic sociology
Polanyi Symposium: A Conversation on Embeddedness
Journal Article Polanyi Symposium: a conversation on embeddedness Get access Greta Krippner, Greta Krippner Affiliations and correspondence: see cast of characters, p. 134 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Granovetter, Mark Granovetter Affiliations and correspondence: see cast of characters, p. 134 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fred Block, Fred Block Affiliatio…
The financialization of the American economy
This paper presents systematic empirical evidence for the financialization of the US economy in the post-1970s period. While numerous researchers have noted the increasing salience of finance, there have been few systematic attempts to consider what this shift means for the nature of the economy, considered broadly. In large part, this omission reflects the considerable methodological difficulties associated with using national economic data to a…
Embeddedness and the Intellectual Projects of Economic Sociology
In this review, we explore how the concept of embeddedness has shaped-and been shaped by-the evolution of the subfield of economic sociology. Although embeddedness is often taken as a conceptual umbrella for a single, if eclectic, approach to the sociological study of the economy, we argue that in fact the concept references two distinct intellectual projects. One project, following from Granovetter's (1985) well-known programmatic statement, att…
The making of US monetary policy: Central bank transparency and the neoliberal dilemma
On Capitalism
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
The Politics of Financialization: An Interview with Greta Krippner
The route to political studies of financialization RR: If you could you come back on the very beginning of your academic career, how did you come to study financialization and what was your perception of the distinctive US fields of research involved in financial issues? In the 1990s, social studies of finance were still in their early years. GK: When I began graduate studies in the mid-1990s, there was a lot of interest in trying to understand t…
Polanyi for the Age of Trump
Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late Twentieth-Century America
In recent years, sociologists have noted the increasing centrality of credit for determining life chances in our society, but they have not given adequate attention to the credit market as a key site where individuals assert claims over economic resources. This article explores distinctive features of the credit transaction that differentiate claims making in the credit market from more familiar forms of claims making in the labor market. Rather …
In Search of Homo Familialus? - Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (New York NY, Zone Books, 2017)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Love and Marxism
Erik Olin Wright's scholarship is often considered to be formed by two entirely disjoint projects represented by his early work on class analysis and his later writings on 'real utopias.' This essay uses Michael Burawoy's recent formulation of the 'two Marxisms' thesis as a foil to argue for the continuities rather than discontinuities in the body of work produced by Wright. More particularly, the critical spirit of the real utopias project infus…
The person of the category: The Pricing of Risk and the Politics of Classification in Insurance and Credit
Unmasked: A History of the Individualization of Risk
In this article, I explore how risk transformed from being understood as a property of groups to being understood as a property of individuals by examining the history of public and private insurance in the United States. Rather than locate changes in how risk is managed in our society in the 'great risk shift' that occurred with the emergence of neoliberalism, I suggest the individualization of risk in recent decades is only the latest instantia…
Toward a Sociology of Contract
Economic sociology has neglected contract as an institutional foundation for market relations. It has also given inadequate attention to the role of forms of social difference such as race, gender, and sexuality in constituting market exchange. We argue that these omissions share common origins in the status/contract division that figured prominently in nineteenth-century sociological and legal thinking. In excavating these origins, we trace two …
Leviathan financialized
InThe Rise of Central Banks, Leon Wansleben provides a perceptive account of the evolution of central banking practices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland from the 1970s through the subprime mortgage crisis and the global pandemic. Focusing on the concrete practices of monetary policymakers, Wansleben usefully explores the relationship between the development of novel techniques of monetary policy implementation an…
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets
This article explores the reasons for the stubborn persistence of gender discrimination in insurance long after gender classifications have been banned in employment, housing, and credit markets. In order to understand why insurance is the last bastion of overt, legally sanctioned discrimination in the post–Civil Rights era, I draw on a historical analysis of political contestation surrounding insurers’ pricing practices in life and auto insuranc…
Symposium on The Ordinal Society
On 'Left Neoliberalism: Parsing the Politics of Freedom
Political science (15 works) · Economics (10 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (6 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Business (4 works)