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Michel Callon

Michel Callon

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Social Sciences and Humanities
France
2025

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
72
Citations
62443
World Ranking
654
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award

Overview

Michel Callon is affiliated with Mines ParisTech in France and specializes primarily in the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their research spans several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Finance, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The research topics covered by Michel Callon include Economic Theory and Institutions, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Management and Organizational Studies, Auction Theory and Applications, and Game Theory and Voting Systems.

Michel Callon's recent publications feature contributions to journals such as the Journal of Cultural Economy, Economy and Society, AMS Review, and Theory Culture & Society. These papers include:

  • The design and performation of markets: a discussion, 2021, AMS Review
  • Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms, 2024, Journal of Cultural Economy
  • Review Symposium: Michel Callon's Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation. Zone Books, 2024, Journal of Cultural Economy
  • Working with Bruno Latour on a Daily Basis, 2024, Theory Culture & Society
  • Ecologization, part 1: Towards assets-actifs and care practices, 2025, Economy and Society

Their book publication includes Markets in the Making, published by Zone Books in 2021.

Frequent co-authors in Michel Callon's work include Koray Çalışkan, Donald MacKenzie, Alvin E. Roth, Fabián Muniesa, and Paul Langley.

Best Publications

  • Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay

    Michael Callon

  • Introduction: The Embeddedness of Economic Markets in Economics:

    Michel Callon

  • The laws of the markets

    Michel Callon

  • Techno‐economic networks and irreversibility

    Michel Callon

  • Co-word analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemsitry

    Michel Callon;Jean Pierre Courtial;Françoise Laville

  • From translations to problematic networks: An introduction to co-word analysis:

    Michel Callon;Jean-Pierre Courtial;William A. Turner;Serge Bauin

  • The economy of qualities

    Michel Callon;Cécile Méadel;Vololona Rabeharisoa

  • Economic markets as calculative collective devices

    Michel Callon;Fabian Muniesa

  • The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The Case of the Electric Vehicle

    Michel Callon

  • Peripheral Vision Economic Markets as Calculative Collective Devices

    Michel Callon;Fabian Muniesa

  • Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology

    Michel Callon;John Law;Arie Rip

  • Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy

    Michel Callon;Pierre Lascoumes;Yannick Barthe

  • Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge?

    J Law;G. J Fyfe;M Callon;B Latour

  • Economization, part 2: a research programme for the study of markets

    Koray Çalışkan;Michel Callon

  • Sociologie de la traduction : Textes fondateurs

    Madeleine Akrich;Michel Callon;Bruno Latour

  • Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization

    Koray Çalışkan;Michel Callon

  • An essay on framing and overflowing: economic externalities revisited by sociology

    Michel Callon

  • An introduction to market devices

    Fabian Muniesa;Yuval Millo;Michel Callon

  • Society in the making: The study of technology as a tool for sociological analysis

    M. Callon

  • What does it mean to say that economics is performative

    Michel Callon

  • Actor-Network Theory—The Market Test:

    Michel Callon

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour Sciences Po
John Law
John Law The Open University
Arie Rip
Arie Rip University of Twente
Andrew Stirling
Andrew Stirling University of Sussex
Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne Lancaster University
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach University of California, Los Angeles
Steve Rayner
Steve Rayner University of Oxford
Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff Harvard University
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes Université Paris Cité

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