News

New By-Laws Ratified! SASE Honorary Members SASE is proud to have inducted eight new honorary members on the occasion of our 30th anniversary conference in New York! Costa Rica Featured Speakers Learn about the Featured Speakers giving talks at our Regional Conference in Costa Rica Interview with Ching Kwan Lee Winner of the first annual Alice Amsden prize in economic sociology, for her book 'The Specter of Global China'. SASE Souvenirs: Photos from the 2019 anniversary meeting Image: SASE Founder - Amitai Etzioni SASE Regional Meeting 2019 – Costa Rica Find all the information regarding our 2019 regional conference in Heredia, Costa Rica (20 - 22 November 2019) Thank You to the New School The New School continues to celebrate its centenary all year, and invites SASE members to apply (or to circulate the call for applications) to its graduate programs. Patrick Le Galès elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea Congratulations are in order for former SASE President Patrick Le Galès, who has been elected 'Member of the Academia Europaea', within the Social Sciences Section. 2019 Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology ‘Starving the Beast’ by Monica Prasad Interdisciplinarity, Law, and Global Capitalism at Northwestern University (USA): A Q&A with the Global Capitalism and Law Research Group SASE Newsletter Editor-in-Chief Agatha Slupek met with Professors Karen Alter and Cristina Lafont of Northwestern University when she attended the University of Chicago’s Workshop in International Politics for the first time. Follow-Up on Kyoto: Sitting Down with Professor Hiroyasu Uemura SASE is very pleased to feature an interview with Hiroyasu Uemura, Professor at the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan. Great News! SER Impact Factor New Impact Factor for SER! Hats off to Gregory Jackson and the SER editorial team! Socio-Economics in the French Public Sphere: A Discussion with Professor Dominique Méda Dominique Méda is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Social Science Research Institute (IRISSO) at Paris-Dauphine University (France). Méda has authored numerous books on the changing role of labor and work in society, as well as on the role of the French welfare state model as it compares to other European welfare states. SASE New York – 2019 Socio-Economic Review – Best Paper Prize The committee is delighted to announce the winning paper for the 11th annual prize for the best submitted article published in the previous year: Jacob Apkarian’s "Opposition to Shareholder Value: Bond Rating Agencies and Conflicting Logics in Corporate Finance" SASE New York – 2019 EHESS/Fondation France-Japon – Best Paper Award We are pleased to announce the 2019 winner of the EHESS/Fondation France-Japon Best Paper Award SASE New York – Alice Amsden Book Award Winner The winner of the inaugural Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics is... SASE New York Program Addendum Now Live You can now download the addendum for the SASE New York Conference to see any last minute changes to the program Conference App now available for SASE/New York 2019 The native app for our 30th anniversary conference in New York is now live. SASE’s First 30 Years: 3 Past Presidents Chime In Amitai Etzioni (SASE Founder/President 1988-1990), Nancy DiTomaso (SASE President 1994-1995), and Colin Crouch (SASE President 2003-2004) SER Best Paper Prize The SER Best Paper Prize goes to Jacob Apkarian for “Opposition to Shareholder Value: Bond Rating Agencies and Conflicting Logics in Corporate Finance,” Socioeconomic Review 16(1):85–112. SASE Network Spotlight: Interview with Alya Guseva of Network N: Finance and Society The editorial team is delighted to publish an interview with Alya Guseva, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston University (USA) and one of the Network N: Finance and Society organizers. She is famous for her original cutting-edge research in economic sociology. Sébastien Lechevalier, Program Director for SASE/Kyoto, on the Emperor’s Retirement Bilan de l’ère Heisei : « La vision d’un Japon sur le déclin est trop simple » 2019 SASE Elections Results We are delighted to announce the results of the SASE elections for President and Executive Council. Brexit…or not? Interviews with Jonathan Zeitlin Jonathan Zeitlin, former SASE president, has changed his mind. Why? Read the three (3) interviews. Teaching Socio-Economics: Challenges and Approaches The socio-economic perspective is flourishing not only in academic journals and at research conferences, but in the classroom as well. Yet as the socio-economic canon grows ever larger, managing to fit its many insights into just one semester or quarter can be a tricky endeavor. This is especially the case when plenty of students arrive […] Brexit, A Continuation – Interview with Patrick Le Galès SASE Past-President Patrick Le Galès took some time from his busy schedule to speak with us about Brexit At Issue in New York City: Gentrification We read this hard-hitting article in the ASA Footnotes (Jan-Mar 2019 issue) and wanted to share it with you - New York City Gentrification, Policing, and Real Estate Developers by Thomas Volscho, College of Staten Island. SASE/New York 2019 – Featured Speakers Find out more about the exceptional scholars giving featured talks at our 30th anniversary conference in New York. SASE/New York 2019 – Author-Meets-Critics Panels Click through to see this year's excellent collection of Author-Meets-Critics panels. At-A-Glance Calendar Get a bird's-eye view of this year's conference schedule.

Costa Rica 2019 Regional Conference SASE is delighted to announce the dates for our next regional conference!

Upcoming Events All of our upcoming events, including some special events for our 30th anniversary conference in New York RESEARCH AND POLITICS – Special Issue on “The Political Consequences of Technological Changes” The journal Research and Politics published a special issue "Political Consequences of Technological Change", co-edited by Bruno Palier (LIEPP et CEE) and Thomas Kurer (Harvard University). Interview with Dan Breznitz Dan Breznitz speaks with SASE about his work and his recent SER article co-authored with Darius Ornston SASE News A quick round up of the latest SASE news. In Memoriam: Jean-Daniel Reynaud (1926-2019) by Erhard Friedberg

NYC Hotel Crunch SASE/NYC will be taking place at the same time as WorldPride and hotels are filling up quickly. Click through for a list of hotel suggestions near to The New School. In the Media Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS), Program Director of SASE/Kyoto 2018, comments in Le Monde on the Japanese view of the Carlos Ghosn affair. Is There a Latin American Economic Sociology? Read latest issue of the economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter, then mark your calendars for SASE's upcoming regional conference in Costa Rica - 20-22 November 2019!

Honors and Distinctions Here we celebrate the achievements of SASE members by highlighting the honors and distinctions that have been bestowed upon them during the past year. Career Opportunities See interesting calls for papers and career opportunities from around the world, collected here for the SASE newsletter The Futures of Solidarity: A Discussion with Professors Virginia Doellgast (Cornell) and Michael McCarthy (Marquette) Is solidarity a thing of the past? Or will it carry forward into the future, and if so, how? What are the institutional and social arenas for and forms of contemporary solidarity? In this feature, editors Agatha Slupek and Assaf Bondy discuss these issues with Professors Virginia Doellgast (Cornell, USA) and Michael McCarthy (Marquette University, USA), respectively. Futures and Futurology An Interview with Professor Jenny Andersson Professor Jenny Andersson is a researcher at the Centre d’études et des recherches internationales at Sciences Po and Principal Investigator of the Futurepol Project. SASE had the chance to speak with her about her newest book, The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination. What Kind of Futures in Academia? Postdoctoral Experiences In this series of interviews we hope to illuminate for our readers what a future in academia might look like and what considerations they may wish to take into account while they pursue careers in the field of socio-economics. SER Special Issue: Call for Papers A special issue on the topic of Socio-Economic Dynamics in new Digital Markets is now accepting submissions. The aim of this Special Issue is to better understand the socio-economic dynamics structuring the platform economy, with a focus on new “sharing” and gig labor platforms. Deadline 15th March Note from an Editor: Futurity and The Politics of Imagination Whose policy proposals, whose political programs, whose visions for a future society can be imagined; that is, conceived of as possible, as enact-able, and not merely dismissed as outlandish and unfathomable? SASE Regional Conference 2019: Costa Rica! SASE’s 4th RISE Regional Conference, Productive Transformation, Regional Asymmetries, and Social Exclusion in Ibero-America, will be hosted by the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica from 20-22 November 2019.

Celebrating Alice Amsden – SASE Book Award For those who have yet to encounter her formidable works, Alice Amsden was one of the most accomplished heterodox economists in the world, specialized in the field of economic development, as well as a consummate teacher.

Meet the Editors The SASE Newsletter is created by a dynamic group of graduate students and early career scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, aided and abetted by the SASE staff. We are pleased to introduce the Newsletter’s 2019 editors SASE’s Global Futures: Report from the Third Japanese Political Economy Workshop (October 2018) As part of SASE’s continuing effort to compose a truly global community of socio-economics research, one of our editors, Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, reports back from the 3rd Japanese Political Economy Workshop