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Alya Guseva
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California-San Diego
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University
Center Associate, Davis Center
Contact Information
617.358.0639 (work)
aguseva@bu.edu
Research Interests
Economic sociology; markets for credit and insurance; risk, uncertainty
and trust in economic transactions and decision-making, transitional
economies of East and Central Europe and China
Current Projects
NSF-sponsored project "Rational Calculation and Trust: A Comparative
institutional Analysis of Emerging Credit Card Markets i Socialist
and Post-Socialist Developing Countries" (with Akos Rona-Tas,
UCSD and Tamara Perkins, Lewis and Clark)
A book tentatively entitled Out of the Red, Into
the Red: The Birth of the Russian Credit Card Marked
Selected Publications
What do you Know, Who Do You Know? School as a Site for the
Production of Social Capital and its Effects on Income Attainment
in Poland and the Czech Republic, co-authored with Karen Buerkle,
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 61(3):657-680,
2002.
Uncertainty, Risk and Trust: Russian and American
Credit Card Markets Compared, co-authored with Rona-Tas Akos,
American Sociological Review, 66 (5) 623-646, 2001.
The Privileges of Past Communist Party Membership
in Russia and Endogenous Switching Regression, co-authored
with Rona-Tas Akos, Social Science Research, 30 (4): 641-52,
2000.
Economicheskaya Sociologiya: Kurs Lektsiy
(Economic Sociology: A Lecture Course), by V.V. Radaev (book review).
European Economic Sociology Newsletter, 2000, 3: 35-37.
Money and Finance in the Transition to a Market
Economy, by I. Abel, et al. (book review), Journal of Economic
Literature, 37(4): 1735-1737, 1999.
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