@nellper

@UTAustinSoc prof. Sociologist. Tweets rarely, but working on it.

 Austin, TX
Joined March 2009
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In a new article in @SASE_Meeting Socio-Economic Review, I draw on findings from Behind the Startup and additional data to examine how a VC-backed startup organized labor to create value for investors. academic.oup.com/ser/advance…

The labor of assetization: producing ‘hypergrowth’ inside a tech startup

Abstract. Venture capitalists maximize profits not by ‘squeezing’ efficiencies out of established companies, but instead by promoting ceaseless experimenta

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New working paper on the emerging use of AI among online survey participants: Focusing on open-ended Qs, we study how often and why survey-takers use AI. We also compare human vs LLM written answers to sensitive questions. 🔗: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4e…
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In Visions of Financial Order, @nellper shows how differences in national financial regulatory systems emerged from divergent beliefs about economic order and prosperity. Now available, learn more about this innovative book and read a sample: hubs.ly/Q02PB0yC0 #EconTwitter
Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation by Kim Pernell.

ALT Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation by Kim Pernell.

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Huge congratulations to the amazing @nellper ! I've loved watching *Visions of Financial Order* grow. A great accomplishment & a fantastic book! @EconSociology @PrincetonUPress @UTAustinSoc @UofT_Sociology press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
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10 years after Ferguson, @mfriedrichnyc links history and our current political moment to police culture and its preoccupation with violence. A tremendously generous and incisive review for @thenation.
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@thenation12 Aug 2024
The Danger Imperative, a book by sociologist Michael Sierra-Arévalo, studies several police departments around the country to catalog the often hidden mechanisms that animate police violence. A review by @mfriedrichnyc. bit.ly/3YDRBaA

What Is Policing For?

Sociologist Michael Sierra-Arévalo’s recent book explains how an obsession with violence has defined the police’s purpose and worldview.

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In Visions of Financial Order, @nellper shows how differences in national financial regulatory systems emerged from divergent beliefs about economic order and prosperity. Now available, learn more about this innovative book: hubs.ly/Q02KqsBy0
Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation by Kim Pernell.

ALT Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation by Kim Pernell.

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In The Paradox of Islamic Finance, Ryan Calder examines how the booming Islamic #finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of #religion and #markets. Now available. Learn more about this deeply researched book: hubs.ly/Q02JgmXX0 #Capitalism
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Regulators who are not worried about PE because they think they are much less levered than banks should read this. Not much “equity” in the business model these days ig.ft.com/private-equity via @ft
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As people list Biden’s accomplishments, the HISTORIC and HUGE decline in child poverty in 2021 due to his expanded CTC needs to be highlighted. And, I’d point out Harris proposed something very close to this policy when she ran for president in 2016. sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/…
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My book is out! (almost...author copies are here!) An ethnography of history education in 🇿🇦schools, it shows how teaching about the past is not enough. When the past is remembered, but its legacies ignored, racism can continue unabated in the present. cup.columbia.edu/book/distan…
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Kim Pernell retweeted
SASE@SASE_Meeting2 May 2024
👉 Don't miss the virtual session “Politics and Sociology of Finance: New Books on the Block” with Basak Kus, Kim Pernell, and Megan Tobias Neely. Happening TOMORROW May 3, 4-5pm CET. Register here: sase.org/women-and-gender-fo….

Women and Gender (WAG) Forum | SASE

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SASE@SASE_Meeting8 Mar 2024
📝New SER study challenges moral hazard theory on bank risk-taking. Finds greater exposure to govt protection via insured deposits often associated with reduced risk, suggesting regulation can ease profit pressures driving risky behaviour. @OxfordJournals bit.ly/3SZzxDn
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Regardless of what you think about the cover art, I hope you take the time to read The Danger Imperative! You can snag it on Amazon or a bookstore near you. a.co/d/7QRNUfD For more info or to send me a message, find me at dangerimperative.com. 💀👮🏽‍♂️

The Danger Imperative

Policing is violent. And its violence is not distributed equally: stark racial disparities persist despite decades of efforts to address them. Amid public outcry and an ongoing crisis of police...

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THE DANGER IMPERATIVE is available to order now! 📖💀👮🏽‍♂️ Stay tuned for official launch day and copies at a bookstore near you 📚 a.co/d/ekKXb3k
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Recording now available! Sociological Perspectives on the Bank Failures of 2023. : tinyurl.com/yduvjeyk Organizers/Panelists: @danielbeunza, Pierre-Christian Fink, Neil Fligstein,  @nellper,  @gilliantett, @MatthiasThiema3 @Cornelia_Woll justmoney.org/sociological-p… @justmoneyorg
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NEW! Kristin L. Perkins, "Household Complexity and Change among Children in the United States, 1984 to 2010" buff.ly/2BJMp8d
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Sonia Kang@Sonia_Kang25 Aug 2017
.@TorontoComms @TorontoPolice Please read this thread and consider more education around the bike box project #TOpoli #BikeTO #TONews xitter.cf/sonia_kang/status/9011…
Sonia Kang@Sonia_Kang25 Aug 2017
1) This just happened to me while biking in #Toronto. I was riding west on #harbord and needed to turn left onto #spadina. I was in the
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U of T Mississauga@UTM30 Jul 2017
Sunday morning must-read: @UTMsoc prof Sida Liu in this week's New York Times magazine cover story > google.ca/amp/s/mobile.nytim…
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ASA Sociology@ASAnews28 Jul 2017
The Hazards of Expert Control: Chief Risk Officers & Risky Derivatives in @asr_journal by @nellper J Jung, F Dobbin journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

The Hazards of Expert Control: Chief Risk Officers and Risky Derivatives - Kim Pernell, Jiwook...

At the turn of the century, regulators introduced policies to control bank risk-taking. Many banks appointed chief risk officers (CROs), yet bank holdings of ne...

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Did you know? Beloit ranks 20th out of 2,000 degree-awarding institutions for producing future Ph.D.s. #funfactfriday
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