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Christine Desan
Christine Desan, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is the co-leader with Professor Sven
Beckert (FAS-History) of Harvard’s Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism. Her
research centers on money and the market as a pairing of form and substance that organizes the political
economy of modern liberalism. Casting money as pure function allows exchange between enterprising
individuals to claim the status of basic agency and models public, regulatory, and legal imperatives as
reactive or responsive logics. Desan maps a contrasting story that explores money as a legal and
political project, one that configures the market it sets out to measure. Her articles include "Coin
Reconsidered: The Political Alchemy of Commodity Money," Theoretical Inquiries in Law 287
(January, 2010), and "Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism,"
forthcoming in Transformation of American Law II: Essays for Morton Horwitz (2009). She is
currently completing a book called Making Money: Coin, Credit, and the Coming of Capitalism in
the Anglo-American World.
Contact information: Christine Desan, Harvard
Law School
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