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Articles by Greta R. Krippner
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets1
This article explores the reasons for the stubborn persistence of gender discrimination in insurance long after gender classifications have been banned in employment, housing, and credit markets. In order to understand why insurance is the last bastion of overt, legally sanctioned discrimination in the post–Civil Rights era, I draw on a historical analysis of political contestation surrounding insurers’ pricing practices in life and auto insurance markets in the 1980s and 1990s.
Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late Twentieth-Century America1
In recent years, sociologists have noted the increasing centrality of credit for determining life chances in our society, but they have not given adequate attention to the credit market as a key site where individuals assert claims over economic resources. This article explores distinctive features of the credit transaction that differentiate claims making in the credit market from more familiar forms of claims making in the labor market.
The best books on Bankruptcy
Isn’t bankruptcy quite a new thing? If you read Charles Dickens, people often seem to end up in debtors’ prisons, suggesting bankruptcy wasn’t an option in Victorian times. The short answer is no, it’s not a new thing. But we need to clarify what we mean by bankruptcy.
Bearing Risks and Being Watched
If two features define contemporary capitalism, they are first the tendency of each individual to increasingly bear alone the risks associated with living in a market society, and second the enmeshment of individuals in a totalizing system of surveillance constructed from our proliferating personal data.
Counter-histories of the Internet
What could the internet have been? We’ve grown so used to our digital networks that they can seem like a force of nature, with laws as immutable as the laws of physics. Yet not long ago, these networks were the object of experiments, conflicts, and at times arbitrary choices. And the fates of many industries hung in the balance. For instance, should users pay for online access in units of time, or of bandwidth, or according to the number of websites they enter?
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