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Fabian Muniesa - 'Paranoid Finance' @ Sciences Po Paris (AxPo / CEE) 19.02.2026 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
In Minneapolis the icy
Good was pretti
And Pretti was good
But shot in cold blood
For against what they stood
Your new year party is over. It is time to complete.
This paper sets a new empirical agenda for exploitation theory, through the notion of chains. Exploitation generally offers three attractive properties compared to more commonly used concepts—inequality and domination—in that it is simultaneously distributive, relational, and openly counterfactual, yet it remains an underexplored notion. While both Marxist and neoclassical traditions focus on dyadic relations—either worker-employer or through market exchange—most exploitative situations bear several relational components, where agents can simultaneously stand as exploited and exploiters. Building on a sociological-relational tradition, we identify four chains—I (connected), L (hinged), V (dual) and C (complicit)—which we argue represent the elementary structures of exploitation. We then contend that this meso-level approach, complementary to individual-transactional and structural accounts, bears potential for sociological analysis and then explore how these chains materialize in various economic sites—within the production unit, on the market, in the domestic sphere, and by the state.
Publication, with Simon Bittmann:
Chains of Exploitation: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration
in Theory & Social Inquiry
L'adoption du mode de scrutin proportionnel apparaît aujourd'hui, selon deux politistes, comme une condition nécessaire pour redonner à la démocratie française la capacité de renouer avec des gouvernements représentatifs, stables et opérationnels.
C'est plutôt du fait des pattes trop palmées qu'il est gauche et veule.
New article "Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction" by Martin Aranguren shows that stressful discrimination is a mechanism that includes but is more encompassing than perceived discrimination (the focus of most research in the area).
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
En analysant près de 8 000 recrutements à la maîtrise de conférences en France entre 2017 et 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio et Adrien Rougier reviennent sur la question ancienne et controversée du localisme académique.
This is a unique opportunity to develop your own research program in a stimulating and interdisciplinary environment, following @catarinaleao.bsky.social and Noam Titelman (2023), @ulojkine.bsky.social (2024), @slstutzmann.bsky.social and Fernando Sánchez (2025).
The AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation.
Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply.
www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...
Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol. Come hear a fascinating talk on the new book by Sanyu Mojola Monday November 17 at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social and the Urban School of @sciencespo.bsky.social. @ucpress.bsky.social
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/even...
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
Si ça ne crée pas un scandale d’Etat, c’est qu’on ne vit pas en démocratie.
Quand les hedge funds imposent aux milliardaires des frais de gestion 2/20 (2% annuel des actifs sous mandat, 20% des profits), c'est de la juste rétribution de la création de valeur. Mais si c'est l'État, avec la taxe dite 'Zucman' (2/0), c'est du bolchévisme sanguinaire...
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It seems that machines learned to solve the unsolvable age-time-cohort decomposition...
Macron invente le remaniement premier ministériel.
La féminisation marche mieux que le neutre.
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(D'où peut-être un argument en faveur du féminin générique italisé : olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoparticle.p...)
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Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
Today marks the end of my fellowship at AxPo @sciencespo.bsky.social. Grateful for the freedom to pursue my research and for the brilliant colleagues who made this journey so rewarding. In particular @oliviergodechot.bsky.social, Allison Rovny, Noam Titelman, Ulysse Lojkine, Meryem Bezzaz.
French firms tend to specialize in certain types of inequalities. Firms in the finance sector have a larger gender gap but a smaller migrant gap. In contrast, firms in the retail, accommodation, and social services sectors have smaller gender gaps but larger migrant gaps.
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Using DADS admin data from France (1996-2021), we find that firms with higher gender gaps have lower migrant gaps, and vice versa. Firms with high gender gaps are also highly unequal within gender/migrant categories. In contrast, firms with high migrant gaps are firms are less unequal.
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And the question is not easy to answer, either. Gender and migrant wage gaps are estimated using the same underlying variable: wages in the same establishments. There’s a big risk of capturing artifacts. Therefore, in the appendices, lots of equations we had a hard time solving…
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– So?
– Well, we’re just asking a very simple question.
Are firms that are highly unequal in terms of gender also highly unequal in terms of migration origin?
It’s trivial once you know the answer… But before that, the answer is not easy to guess… Try!
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– Hmm … INTERSECTIONALITY? This must be dangerously WOKE…
– Nope
– Oh ... “organizational intersectionality”? This must talk of the complexity of the lived experiences of those facing in organizations multiple prejudices at the intersection of many minorized dimensions.
– Not really either.
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In the midst of the summer torpor, our paper with @msafi.bsky.social and Matthew Soener, “Organizational Intersectionality” was finally published at @wesjnl.bsky.social .
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What is it about? Small thread.
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Eric Brian en 2010 - Photo sur Wikipedia (https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éric_Brian)
Romain Huret annonce le décès d’Éric Brian (www.linkedin.com/posts/romain...). C’est une grande perte. Connu pour son caractère bien trempé, Éric Brian etait d’une très grande générosité intellectuelle
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One year after its publication in AJS, our article, the "Great Separation", follows its route. We were lucky, honored and deligthed to receive:
- the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th
- the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)
Michel Callon passed away July 28th. Following Latour, he narrowed down the performativity of science program to a domain where it was reasonable: economics. He was also a generous and open-minded mentor to a whole generation of economic sociologists.
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu?fbclid=IwY2x...