Marion FOURCADE
Marion Fourcade received her PhD from Harvard University (2000) and taught at New York University and Princeton University before joining the Berkeley sociology department in 2003. A comparative sociologist by training and taste, she is interested in variations in economic and political knowledge and practice across nations. Her first book, Economists and Societies (Princeton University Press 2009), explored the distinctive character of the discipline and profession of economics in three countries. She is now working on a second book, tentatively called Measure for Measure: Social Ontologies of Classification, which examines the cultural and institutional logic of what we may call “national classificatory styles” across a range of empirical domains. Current studies for this book include environmental valuation, the digitization of books and the classification of wines in France and the United States. Other ongoing research focuses on the role of the credit market in social stratification (with Kieran Healy); the comparative study of political organization (with Evan Schofer and Brian Lande); the microsociology of courtroom exchanges (with Roi Livne); and the role of business schools in the neoliberal turn (with Rakesh Khurana).
Books
2009 Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s-1990s (Princeton University Press)
Selected articles
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2012 “The Vile and the Noble: On the Relationship between Natural and Social Classifications in the French Wine World.” Forthcoming, The Sociological Quarterly.
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2012 “From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth-Century America.” (with Rakesh Khurana) Forthcoming, Theory and Society.
- 2011 "Cents and Sensibility: Economic Values and the Nature of ‘Nature’ in France and America." American Journal of Sociology 116(6): 1721-1777
- 2010 "The Problem of Embodiment in the Sociology of Knowledge" Qualitative Sociology 33(4) (afterword to symposium on “Knowledge in Practice”)
- 2010: "Price and Prejudice: On Economics, and the Enchantment/ Disenchantment of Nature" in Jens Beckert and Patrik Aspers (eds.) The Worth of Goods. Oxford University Press
- 2009 "The Political Valuation of Life. Comments on a Paper by Kip Viscusi." Regulation and Governance 3:291-297.
- 2009 "The United States: An Economists' Economy." In Economists in the Americas, edited by John Markoff and Veronica Montecinos. Edward Elgar.
- 2007 "The Politics of Method and its Agentic, Performative and Ontological Others." Social Science History 31(1): 107-114.
- 2007 "Theories of Markets, Theories of Society" American Behavioral Scientist 50(8): 1015-1034.
- 2007 "Moral Views of Market Society" Annual Review of Sociology 33: 285-311 (with Kieran Healy).
- 2006 "The Construction of a Global Profession: The Transnationalization of Economics." American Journal of Sociology 112(1): 145-195.
- 2006 "Global Processes, National Institutions, Local Bricolage: Shaping Law in an Era of Globalization." Law and Social Inquiry 31(3):513-519 (with Joachim Savelsberg).
- 2006 "Culture and Economy." In Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. London, Routledge.
- 2005 "The Sociology of Economics." In International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, edited by Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski London, Routledge 2005.
- 2002 "The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed: Paths to Neoliberalism in Four Countries." American Journal of Sociology 108(9): 533-579 (with Sarah Babb).
- 2001 "The Structural Contexts of Civic Engagement: Voluntary Association Membership in Comparative Perspective." American Sociological Review 66(6): 806-828 (with Evan Schofer).
- 2001 "Politics, Institutional Structures and the Rise of Economics: A Comparative Study." Theory and Society 30(3): 397-447.