Marion Fourcade

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Marion Fourcade

Professor
Office
474 Social Sciences
Phone
(510) 643-2707
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Economic sociology, culture, political sociology, comparative methods, knowledge and science, digital society

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. Fourcade is the author of Economists and Societies (Princeton University Press 2009), which explores the distinctive character of the discipline and profession of economics in three countries. A second book, The Ordinal Society (with Kieran Healy, forthcoming, Harvard University Press) investigates new forms of social stratification and morality in the digital economy. Other research focuses on the valuation of nature in comparative perspective; algorithmic societies (with Jenna Burrell; with Fleur Johns; with Henry Farrell); the digitization of states (with Jeff Gordon) and their moral regulation by financial markets (with Caleb Scoville); primitive accumulation in digital capitalism (with Daniel Kluttz); the comparative study of political organization (with Evan Schofer and Brian Lande); the microsociology of courtroom exchanges (with Roi Livne); the sociology of economics, with Etienne Ollion and Yann Algan, and with Rakesh Khurana; the politics of wine classifications in France and the United States (with Rebecca Elliott and Olivier Jacquet).

Fourcade is also an External Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and a past President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2016).

Representative Publications

2024 The Ordinal Society (with Kieran Healy). Harvard University Press.

2021 Pandemic Exposures. Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus. (edited, with Didier Fassin, HAU).

2009 Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s-1990s (Princeton University Press) 

Selected articles, book chapters and essays