Greta Krippner

Greta Krippner is a historical sociologist with substantive research interests in the areas of economic sociology and political sociology.  She also has a longstanding interest in social theory.  Krippner’s research examines historical change in the relationship between markets and political institutions in U.S. society, with a particular focus on the closing decades of the twentieth century.  Her book, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance (2011), examines the financialization of the U.S. economy in the decades since the 1970s.  Her more recent work on the politics of credit and finance takes up two interrelated questions: 1) How is the economy constituted as a political object under different historical conditions? 2) How is (political) judgment exercised in market society?  She is also writing a history of the concept of ownership in American political culture from the birth of the Republic to the 21st century foreclosure crisis.