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Paul Lagneau-Ymonet is Associate Professor of Sociology at University Paris-Dauphine (IRISSO), Paris. His research interests include the organization of financial markets in historical and comparative perspective and the sociology of elites. He is the co-author of Histoire de la Bourse [History of the Paris Stock Exchange] (2012, with Angelo Riva). He has published in sociological, historical, economic and political economic journals.