This issue is organized around the theme of Big Data as our new social world, one that has been taking shape thanks to three important recent advances in information technology, all accelerated in the last few years.

In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a "credit-card economy" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card? How...

This issue is organized around the theme of Big Data as our new social world, one that has been taking shape thanks to three important recent advances in information technology, all accelerated in the last few years.

In recent years, fiscal sociology has grown to become one of the most vibrant subfields in economic sociology. For a long time, its core topic - public finance - was considered to lie beyond the discipline of sociology, despite the contributions of Rudolph Goldscheid, Fritz Karl Mann, and Joseph...

This issue centers on the encounter between the economy and the human body. Economics, like other social sciences, treats people mostly as disembodied actors who never catch viruses or suffer from back pain or creeping dementia. These abstract actors are all too often assumed also to be...