Book Launch

Book Launch | Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies

11/18 Friday | 1pm
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  •  November 18, 2016
     1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Cultures of Finance working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for the launch event for Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies, out now from the University of Chicago Press. Editor Ben Lee and contributors contributors Robert Wosnitzer, Robert Meister, Emanuel Derman, and Edward LiPuma, will engage with discussants (more…)

Lecture

Public Lecture: Laurent Thévenot on Reconstructing Critique

10/05 Wednesday | 6pm
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  •  October 5, 2016
     6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a lecture by the sociologist Laurent Thévenot, Directeur d’études at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and a renowned theorist of the critical social sciences. Democratic nation-states are increasingly governed by non-democratic procedures. The rise of neo-liberalism, the celebration of the market as an arbiter of the (more…)