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  Greta R. Krippner

  Greta Krippner is a historical sociologist with substantive interests in the areas of economic and political sociology. More specifically, her work attempts to understand the shifting relationship between markets and political institutions (including but not limited to the state) as the stable social structures that characterized the “Golden Age” of postwar American capitalism have been reconfigured over the last several decades. Her new book, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance (Harvard University Press, 2011), examines the financialization of the U.S. economy in the period since the 1970s. Krippner’s current research builds on her previous work by examining the curious absence of a politics around credit a

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  Eric J. Hobsbawm

  Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914) and the "short 20th century" (The Age of Extremes), and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work.
  Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and spent his childhood mainly in Vienna and Berlin. Following the death of his parents and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, Hobsbawm moved to London with his adoptive fami

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