Professor Dr. Greta Krippner

Biography

Greta R. Krippner is a historical sociologist with substantive interests in economic sociology, political sociology, sociology of law, and social theory. Her book, "Capitalizing Crisis: Political Origins of the Rise of Finance" (Harvard University Press, 2011), examines the financialization of the U.S. economy since the 1970s, arguing that the turn towards finance was an inadvertent response to unresolved distributional dilemmas during a period of stalled post-war growth. Currently, she is working on a book project that traces the long history of individualization of risk in U.S. society, exploring how the notion that individuals must 'bear the cost' of their own riskiness has emerged as a widely accepted normative principle regarding the distribution of risk.

Research Interests