Bruce G. Carruthers

His current research focuses on institutions that support long-term decision-making, but he also works on the relationship between law and money, the quantification of credit in the United States, and corporate social responsibility and taxation. He has had visiting fellowships at the Russell Sage Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the U.S. Library of Congress and received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2024 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Carruthers' latest book, The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America, came out in fall 2022. He has published five other books, City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1996); Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States (with Terence C. Halliday; Oxford University Press, 1998); Economy/Society: Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure (with Sarah L. Babb; Sage, 2000); Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis (with Terence C. Halliday; Stanford University Press, 2009); and Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach (with Laura Ariovich; Polity Press, 2010), with recent articles published in Statistique et société, Theory and Society, the Fordham Law Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, Social Science History, Socio-Economic Review, Sociétés Contemporaines, and Socius.