Meeting with Ève Chiapello and Alexandre Violle – 22 May 2025
The Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3) and the Mines Paris – PSL library invite you to a meeting with Ève Chiapello and Alexandre Violle for the presentation of their book Sociologie des circuits financiers. Les infrastructures de l’argent et leur politique (Sociology of Financial Circuits: The Infrastructure of Money and Its Politics), on Thursday, 22 May 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The discussion will be moderated by Alexandre Mallard, Director of i3
How can we track money and report on its role in the formulation and implementation of public policy? Based on an ambitious conceptual framework, this book delves into the material operations and infrastructure that make money circulate.
How can the social sciences implement the injunction to ‘follow the money’? How do money circuits enable and constrain European and national public policies?
The sociology of financial circuits proposes to combine a sociology inspired by the work of Viviana Zelizer and infrastructure studies in order to arrive at a detailed understanding of the materiality of the circulation of money. A series of empirically researched case studies illustrate the fruitfulness of this approach.
The book provides access to the worlds of institutional money, the social and political meanings embedded in IT, legal and accounting infrastructures, and the interdependencies between financial circuits and public policies. The chapters shed light on how money policies are transforming both the state and capitalism.
Practical information
- 22 May 2025, from 6pm to 7.30pm
- 60 Bd Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris
- Library