Comments on the potentials of the notion of "experimentation" as a vehicule for the renewal of the theoretical repertoire of political sociology.

Presents a case study on public participation in controversies on nanotechnologies in France, and proposes an analytical typology.

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

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.

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.

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

Analyses the ambiguity of a number of transparency-making devices in economic and financial life.

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

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

Develops and discusses a theoretical framework for the study of taste from a pragmatist point of view.