“Setting the habit of capitalization: the pedagogy of earning power at the Harvard Business School, 1920-1940” (see earlier comment on this piece of work here) is now out as part of a special issue on “conventions and quantification” edited by … Continue reading →

This month, December 2015, marks the official closure of what has been a 56-months project. What has been done and what is to be left? PERFORMABUSINESS (“Performativity in Business Education, Management Consulting and Entrepreneurial Finance”) has been productive on the … Continue reading →

On 16 an 17 October 2014 the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation hosted an international event with a slightly provocative title: “Capitalizing on Performativity: Performing on Capitalization”. The purpose consisted in gathering together a number of colleagues that have played … Continue reading →

“Capitalizing on Performativity: Performing on Capitalization” is the titled of the forthcoming PERFORMABUSINESS symposium, to be held in Paris, 16-17 October 2014. The purpose? A cogent appraisal of the spirit of contemporary capitalism and its problems calls for renewed attention … Continue reading →

The discounted cash flow formula (DCF) is of major interest for the social inquiry of capitalization into which the PERFORMABUSINESS team has proposed to delve. Since the 1950s, DCF has become the key tool that equips practices of economic valuation, … Continue reading →

The role of business schools in the formation of business reality is today an acknowledged topic in the social-scientific exploration of the cultural elements of entrepreneurial capitalism (see, for example, the work of Rakesh Khurana, in particular his book From … Continue reading →

A few further hints on the anthropology of capitalization (see earlier references to this research action here and here) were delivered last week at the FIAC, the international art fair in Paris (24-27 October 2012). That was part of “Something … Continue reading →

A follow-up on “Capitalization and Social Inquiry”: Cultural Anthropology‘s forum on “Theorizing the Contemporary — Finance” (Guest Editor: Bill Maurer) is now on-line and includes a number of contributions linked to the research conducted within the frame of the PERFORMABUSINESS … Continue reading →