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Akos Rona-Tas (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California, San Diego.

He is the author of the books Plastic Money, Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries (with Alya Guseva), Great Surprise of the Small Transformation: Demise of Communism and Rise of the Private Sector in Hungary, several articles in journals including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Socio-Economic Review, Social Science Research, Research on Sociology of Organizations, Sociological Research and Methods, Historical Social Research, Journal of Comparative Economics, as well as various chapters in edited volumes. His current research is on credit, risk analysis and the role of scientific uncertainty in policy making and social predictions.
He is Chief Editor of the Socio-Economic Review.

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