Dr Daniel Souleles

Associate Professor, Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School

Biography

I am a sociocultural, ethnographic anthropologist, and hold a Ph.D. in applied anthropology from Columbia University in New York City. I study politics, economics, and value in the United States, and have done extensive field work on Catholic hermit monks, private equity and venture capital investors, employee-owned companies (ESOPs, specifically), automated and algorithmic trading on financial markets, and the Massachusetts State Legislature. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how wealth, work, and worry are generated, controlled, distributed, horded, allocated, and/or destroyed, all in the context of financial capitalism. In the future, I’m looking forward to spending more time studying democracies, how political systems change, and imagining ways to build a better world.

Selected publications

Daniel Scott Souleles / Whoosh Goes the Market : Algorithms, Automation, and Alienation.
Illinois : University of Chicago Press 2024, 208 p.

Daniel Scott Souleles (Editor) ; Johan Gersel (Editor) ; Morten Sørensen Thaning (Editor) / People before Markets : An Alternative Casebook. Cambridge : Cambridge

Daniel Souleles / Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss : Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019, 264 p. (Anthropology of Contemporary North America)

Daniel Souleles / Don’t Mix Paxil, Viagra, and Xanax : What Financiers’ Jokes Say about Inequality. In: Economic Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2017, p. 107–119