A Blog on the Social Studies of Finance

Daniel Beunza is Assistant Professor of management at Columbia Business School and acting Director of Columbia’s Center on Organizational Innovation (COI). Daniel’s research examines the capital markets from a science and technology studies perspective: it examines trading rooms as laboratories and markets as forums for controversy.

Martha Poon is completing doctoral work at UCSD. Her NSF supported research traces the history of commercial credit scoring technology in the US, and the effects of statistical risk management tools on the consumer credit and mortgage industries.

Yuval Millo is a lecturer (assistant professor) in the department of Accounting at the London School of Economics. Having background in the sociology of science and economic sociology, Yuval applies qualitative approaches combined with social networks analysis to the study of financial risk management and corporate governance.