How can we follow money and account for its role in the design and implementation of public policies? Based on the establishment of an ambitious conceptual framework, the book delves into the core of the material operations and infrastructures that enable the circulation of money. Read More
How can the social sciences implement the injunction to "follow the money" to study its political effects? How do financial circuits both 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 with infrastructure studies in order to achieve a detailed understanding of the materiality of money circulation. A series of in-depth empirical case studies illustrates the fruitfulness of this approach. The book provides access to the worlds of the money of institutions, the social and political meanings embedded in technological, legal and accounting infrastructures, and the interdependencies between financial circuits and public policies. The chapters shed light on how the politics of money is transforming both the state and capitalism.