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

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

Economists' principal explanations of the subprime crisis differ from those developed by noneconomists in that the latter see it as rooted in the US legacy of racial/ethnic inequality, and especially in racial residential segregation, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this...

The Uniform Small Loan Law (USLL) was the Russell Sage Foundation’s primary device for fighting what it viewed as the scourge of high-rate lending to poor people in the first half of the twentieth century. The USLL created a new class of lenders who could make small loans at interest rates...

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

Nowadays, what can be identified as info-communication age, the mobile phone became a determinant technical device in life. I studied the mobile device selection criteria and usage habits of university students with a non-representative research. The results show that the price, look and shape...

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