Fabian Muniesa

Ecole des Mines de Paris

DPhil | HDR

http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Muniesa/

Research Interests

Fabian Muniesa is a senior researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI) in the Ecole des Mines de Paris (now Mines ParisTech), France.  His research contributions are mostly located in the fields of science and technology studies and economic sociology. His work primarily aims at developing a pragmatist, materialist approach to the study of calculation, valuation and organization. His past and current research topics include the automation of financial markets, the practice of economics, the implementation of performance indicators, and the pedagogy of business.

Recent Publications

Muniesa, Fabian and Linhardt, Dominique. 2011. Trials of explicitness in the implementation of public management reform. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22(6), pp. 550-566.

Muniesa, Fabian, Chabert, Dominique, Ducrocq-Grondin, Marceline and Scott, Susan V. 2011. Back-office intricacy: the description of financial objects in an investment bank. Industrial and Corporate Change, 20(4), pp. 1189-1213.

Muniesa, Fabian and Trébuchet-Breitwiller, Anne-Sophie. 2010. Becoming a measuring instrument: an ethnography of perfume consumer testing. Journal of Cultural Economy, 3(3), pp. 321-337.

Muniesa, Fabian, Callon, Michel and Millo, Yuval. eds. 2007. Market Devices. Oxford: Blackwell.

Muniesa, Fabian, MacKenzie, Donald and Siu, Lucia. eds. 2007. Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Muniesa, Fabian. 2007. Market technologies and the pragmatics of prices. Economy and Society, 36(3), pp. 377-395.