"Conventional explanations of the nature of money are weighed down by bad ideas and irrelevant historical evidence. The standard theory of finance is hampered by the lack of both sociological and ethical contextualization, and by sloppy thinking about numbers and time. Money, Finance, Reality,...

This paper analyzes how stories shaped treasurers' expectations in municipal swap activities and contributes to the sociological debate on the mechanisms of expectation formation. Employing a deductive variant of process tracing, it synthesizes the literature on expectations in economic decision...

"Mitchel Abolafia goes behind the scenes with the Federal Reserve's powerful Open Market Committee as it responded to the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Relying on verbatim transcripts of closed meetings, Abolafia shows how assumptions about self-correcting markets stymied the Fed and how its...

Introduction: limited government -- A self-organizing society -- Ordered liberty -- Social liberalism -- The anxious society -- The managerial society -- Conservative realism -- Political economy -- Health 1 -- Health 2 -- Education -- Income -- Conclusion: auto-industrial society -- Index

This book discusses the socio-legal tax state and its relationship to development, inequality and the transnational. "Fiscal Sociology" commenced in 1918 when Joseph A. Schumpeter examined the links between capitalism and taxation, arguing that fiscal pressures on governments led directly to the...