Studies a number of aspects of the reform of public finance and public management in France (LOLF), with special attention to science and technology policy, using a pragmatist approach to the sociology of the state.

Provides some theoretical developments on the topic of the performativity of economics.

Reviews debates on the performativity of economics from the vantage point of a general anthropology of modern economic reason.

Discusses the performativity of economics and proposes theoretical directions to study it from a sociological perspective.

Develops a pragmatist sociology of the State with an analysis of the conflict between urban guerrilla groups and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s.

Provides original sociological research on the development of consumer credit scoring in the United States and its links to subprime mortgage finance.

Presents a case study on the Arizona Stock Exchange, with an emphasis on how exchange automation altered the definition of the market.

Examines the changing roles of science exhibitions from places of 'cold' science, where secure, closed and fixed knowledge is communicated, to places that increasingly engage with 'hot', controversial research and open debates.

Provides ethnographic observations and analysis of a laboratory experiment in economics.

Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original, qualitative case studies focused on research-based spin-offs.