Research & Publications

"Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets." American Journal of Sociology. Forthcoming.
"Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets." Rilinger, Georg. Theory and Society (2024).
"Conceptual Limits of Performativity: Assessing the Feasibility of Market Design Blueprints." Rilinger, Georg. Socio-Economic Review Vol. 21, No. 2 (2023): 885-908.
"Organizational Limits of Market Design." Rilinger, Georg. Academy of Management Proceedings Vol. 2023, No. 1 (2023): 11572.
"Who Captures Whom? Regulatory Misperceptions and the Timing of Cognitive Capture." Rilinger, Georg. Regulation & Governance Vol. 17, No. 1 (2023): 43-60.
"Discursive Multivocality: How the Proliferation of Economic Language can Undermine the Political Influence of Economists." Rilinger, Georg. Socio-Economic Review Vol. 20, No. 4 (2022): 1991-2015.
"The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics." Rilinger, Georg. Contemporary Sociology Vol. 51, No. 6 (2022): 499-501.
"Corporate Conspiracies and Complex Secrets: Structure and Perception of the Insull Scheme in 1930s Chicago." Rilinger, Georg. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 124, No. 4 (2019).
"Methodological Problems of Immanent Critique – The Case of Alienation." Rilinger, Georg. Leviathan Vol. 43, No. 1: 88-112.

Failure by Design. Rilinger, Georg. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

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