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Bruce G. Carruthers publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bruce G. Carruthers sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 196 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Bruce G. Carruthers D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bruce G. Carruthers sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Bruce G. Carruthers is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. The scientist's research spans several interconnected fields, including sociology, political science, finance, and the history and philosophy of science. Subfields of distinct focus include atomic and molecular physics as well as demography.

The primary research topics addressed involve the history of science and medicine, social and cultural dynamics, social capital and networks, culture, economy, and development studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, banking stability, regulation and efficiency, and global financial regulation and crises.

Recent peer-reviewed papers by Bruce G. Carruthers include the following:

  • Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets, 2023, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • Law, governance, and finance: introduction to the Theory and Society special issue, 2020, Theory and Society
  • Progress, not growth: a modest proposal, 2023, Organization Studies

Frequent collaborators in the research include Terence C. Halliday, John Campbell, John A. Hall, Peter J. Katzenstein, and Lane Kenworthy.

Publications are often featured in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Socio-Economic Review, Social Forces, and Theory and Society.

Bruce G. Carruthers has authored books published by Princeton University Press and Stanford University Press eBooks. Notable titles include:

  • The Economy of Promises, published in 2022 by Princeton University Press
  • Bankrupt, published in 2020 by Stanford University Press eBooks

An award listed for this scientist is the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, awarded in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Accounting for Rationality: Double-Entry Bookkeeping and the Rhetoric of Economic Rationality

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Wendy Nelson Espeland

  • Accounting, ambiguity, and the new institutionalism

    Bruce Greenhow Carruthers

  • City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution

    Bruce G. Carruthers

  • A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy, 1934-1950.

    Edwin Amenta;Bruce G. Carruthers;Yvonne Zylan

  • The recursivity of law : Global norm making and national lawmaking in the globalization of corporate insolvency regimes

    Terence C. Halliday;Bruce G. Carruthers

  • The social structure of liquidity : Flexibility, markets, and states

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Arthur L. Stinchcombe

  • The Sociology of Property Rights

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Laura Ariovich

  • Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis

    Terence C. Halliday;Bruce G. Carruthers

  • The Color of Money and the Nature of Value: Greenbacks and Gold in Postbellum America

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Sarah Babb

  • Economy/Society: Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure

    Bruce Greenhow Carruthers;Sarah L. Babb

  • The Sociology of Finance

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Jeong Chul Kim

  • From uncertainty toward risk: the case of credit ratings

    Bruce G. Carruthers

  • Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Laura Ariovich

  • Conditionality: Forms, Function, and History

    Sarah L. Babb;Bruce G. Carruthers

  • Money, Meaning and Morality

    Bruce Greenhow Carruthers;Wendy N Espeland

  • Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Terence C. Halliday

  • The sociology of money and credit

    Bruce G. Carruthers

  • Negotiating Globalization: Global Scripts and Intermediation in the Construction of Asian Insolvency Regimes

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Terence C. Halliday

  • Economic Sociology in the New Millennium

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Brian Uzzi

  • Rhetorical legitimation: global scripts as strategic devices of international organizations †

    Terence C. Halliday;Terence C. Halliday;Susan Block-Lieb;Bruce Greenhow Carruthers

  • The Formative Years of U.S. Social Policy: Theories of the Welfare State and Social Policies in the American States During the Great Depression

    Edwin Amenta;Bruce G. Carruthers

  • The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Teresa A. Sullivan;Elizabeth Warren;Jay Lawrence Westbrook

  • Success and Survival on Wall Street: Understanding the Mind of the Market

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Charles W. Smith

  • 5. Institutionalizing Markets, or the Market for Institutions? Central Banks, Bankruptcy Law, and the Globalization of Financial Markets

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Sarah L. Bahby;Terence C. Halliday

  • The Myth of the Powerless State

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Linda Weiss

  • Financialization and the institutional foundations of the new capitalism

    Bruce G. Carruthers

  • Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653.

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Robert Brenner

  • City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution

    Stuart Banner;Bruce G. Carruthers

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Hyman
Richard Hyman London School of Economics and Political Science
Brian Uzzi
Brian Uzzi Northwestern University
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol

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