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.