Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and
Program in Global Commerce in Culture and Society
University of Virginia
pfink@virginia.edu
Forthcoming “A Prophet Not Accepted in His Own Time: Hyman Minsky, the Disruption of the Postwar Growth Model by Financial Innovation, and the Vision of a Truly Wage-Led Economy.” Politics & Society.
2024 “Narration to End an Emergency: The Federal Reserve’s Report on the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank.” Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 5(1):200–226. [PDF | Publisher’s website]
2023 “Caught between Frontstage and Backstage: The Failure of the Federal Reserve to Halt Rule Evasion in the Financial Crisis of 1974.” American Sociological Review 88(1):24–52. [PDF | Publisher’s website]
2024 “Moralizing Money.” Phenomenal World. [Publisher’s website]
2023 “Conference Report: New Directions in the Sociology and Political Economy of Finance” (with Daniel Beunza). Accounts: Economic Sociology Newsletter 28(3):5–11. [PDF]
2026 “Goffmanian Political Economy” (with Stephanie L. Mudge). Series of panels at the annual conference of the Social Science History Association, Atlanta. [Event website]
2023 “New Directions in the Sociology and Political Economy of Finance” (with Daniel Beunza). Virtual book salon, sponsored by the Program on Law and Political Economy, Harvard. [Event website]
2023 “Sociological Perspectives on the Bank Failures of 2023” (with Daniel Beunza). Virtual panel, sponsored by the Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard, and the Center for Responsible Enterprise, Bayes Business School, University of London. [Event website]