Aaron Z. Pitluck
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+36 1 327-3000 x2241 Qualifications:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.Phil, Development Studies, University of Cambridge
Dip, Economics, London School of Economics
B.A., Liberal Arts, Eugene Lang College, New School of Social Research
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
Aaron Pitluck is a research fellow specializing in global finance at the Political Economy Research Group for 2011-2013. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology, currently on leave from Illinois State University (USA). Previous to that appointment, he worked at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in Prof. Karin Knorr Cetina’s Research Unit on Knowledge, Finance and Society. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. His most recent publication is “Distributed Execution in Illiquid Times: An Alternative Explanation of Trading in Stock Markets,” Economy and Society 40(1), 26-55. He has chapters forthcoming in the Handbook of the Sociology of Finance and the International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis.
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Academic/research topics:
economic sociology
Development
Banking and Finance
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy (P160)
capitalism
Asia-Pacific
globalization
Capitalism and Ethics
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Publications
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"The Silence of Finance and Its Critics: Portfolio Investors in the World-System." In Routledge International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis: Theory and Research, edited by Salvatore Babones and Chris Chase-Dunn. New York: Routledge, 2012.
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"Islamic Banking and Finance: Alternative or Façade?" In Handbook of the Sociology of Finance, edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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"Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic finance and socially responsible investment." In Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches, edited by Katherine E. Browne and Lynne B. Milgram, 233-255. Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) Monographs. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008.
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Joint book review of Matthew Gill, Accountants’ Truth and Karen Ho, Liquidated In Gill, Matthew. (2009). Accountants' truth: Knowledge and ethics in the financial world: Oxford University Press; Ho, Karen. (2009). Liquidated: An ethnography of Wall Street. Durham and London: Duke University Press.. Vol. 25. Work, Employment and Society 25, no. 1., 2011.
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"Distributed Execution in Illiquid Times: An Alternative Explanation of Trading in Financial Markets." Economy and Society 40, no. 1 (2011): 26-55.
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"Ethnography Meets Econometrics: Exploring Daily Work Practices that Lead to Financial Crises." Anthropology News October (2009): 7-8.
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