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Adam S. Hayes

Department of Sociology Email: ahayes8@wisc.edu

University of Wisconsin-Madison Phone: 917-494-5475

8128 Sewell Social Sciences Building

1180 Observatory Drive

Madison, WI 53705

EDUCATION

May 2021 Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison [expected]

Major Subfield: Economic Sociology & Organizations

Minor: Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Preliminary Examinations: Economic Sociology

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

2015 M.A., Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY

2001 B.S., Biological Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Economic Sociology; Science and Technology Studies (STS); Social Studies of Finance; Digital

Sociology, Behavioral Economics; Risk and Decision Making; Sociological Theory

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

2018 Hayes, A. S. The Socio-Technological Life of Bitcoin. Theory Culture and Society

(forthcoming)

Hayes, A. S. Bitcoin price and its marginal cost of production: support for a fundamental

value. Applied Economics Letters (in press)

Tasca, P., Hayes, A. S., & Liu, S. The Evolution of the Bitcoin Economy: Extracting and

Analyzing the Network of Payment Relationships. Journal of Risk Finance, 19(2), 94-126.

2017 Hayes, A. S. Cryptocurrency Value Formation: An empirical study leading to a

cost of production model for valuing Bitcoin. Telematics and Informatics. 34(7), 1308-1321

*Winner, Best Paper Award, Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (2015)

2016 Hayes, A. S. “Decentralized Banking: Monetary Technocracy in the Digital Age.” In

Banking Beyond Banks and Money (pp. 121-131). Springer International Publishing.

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Hayes, A. S. and Tasca, P. “Blockchain and Crypto-currencies.” in The FinTech Book:

The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries. (217-

220). Wiley & Sons.

WORKING PAPERS & MANUSCRIPTS IN SUBMISSION OR PREPARATION

Hayes, A. S. (2018) The Behavioral Economics of Pierre Bourdieu (Under review at)

Hayes, A. S. (2018) Market crises as disasters: Re-evaluating how people actually behave

as retirement savers (Under review at Finance and Society)

Hayes, A. S. (2017). Risk Strategies in 401(k) Retirement Plans: Observed Variation by

Income and Age. (2

R&R at The Journal of Risk Research)

Hayes, A. S. (2016). Challenges Confronting Central Bankers Today. Mario Einaudi

Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Working Paper 4-16

Hayes A.S. (2015) The Influence of HR Professionals on Employee Investment Decisions

in 401(k) Plans

Hayes, A. S. (2015). The Decision to Produce Altcoins: Miners' Arbitrage in

Cryptocurrency Markets. Available at SSRN 2579448.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2018-20 Holtz Center Graduate Fellowship, The Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2018 Ingrid H. Rima Scholarship, The Association for Social Economics

2016- Graduate Research Fellow, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of

Wisconsin-Madison

2015-16 Graduate Research Fellow, Global Finance Initiative/Meridian 180 Project, The Tobin

Project & Cornell University

2015 Best Paper Award, Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), Samos,

Greece

2013-15 Provost’s Scholarship, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY

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CONFERECE PRESENTATIONS

2018 The Active Construction of Passive Investors: Toward Robo Economicus, XIX ISA World

Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada.

The Active Construction of Passive Investors: Toward Robo Economicus, 16

World

Congress of the Association for Social Economics, Colorado St. Univ., Fort Collins, CO.

The Socio-Technological Life of Bitcoin, DigitalCapitalism2018: Ubercapitalism or Post-

Capitalism?, Kings College, London, UK.

The Socio-Technological Life of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency Research Conference, Anglia

Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

2017 Risk-Taking in a Post-Pension Society: How people behave in 401(k) Plans, American

Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada.

Business Plans as Rational Myths?, The Intersections of Economic Sociology and

Organizations, Occupations, and Work (ASA section mini conference for ES & OOW),

McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Risk-Taking in a Post-Pension Society: How people behave in 401(k) Plans Canadian

Sociological Association, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

2016 Decentralized Banking: Monetary Technocracy in the Digital Age, Mediterranean

Conference on Information Systems, Paphos, Cyprus.

Challenges Confronting Central Bankers Today, The Changing Politics of Central

Banking, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

2015 Cryptocurrency Value Formation, Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems,

University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece.

What Factors Give Cryptocurrencies Their Value?, Virtual Currency Today Summit,

Boston, MA.

Cryptocurrency Value Formation, Second Annual Texas Bitcoin Conference, Austin, TX.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2017- Research Assistant, PI: Dr. Rourke O’Brien, Lafollett School of Public Affairs & Dept. of

Sociology, Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Project: “Household, Neighborhood, and Policy Determinants of Strategic Tax

Behavior by Low-Income Households”

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2014-15 Research Assistant, PI: Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy

Analysis, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY

Project: “401(k) Tax Policy and Retirement Inequality”

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2015- Lecturer

University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Courses: Money & Banking (online); Blockchains in the Developing World (online)

2016-17 Teaching Assistant, Drs. Erik Olin Wright and Joel Rogers, Department of Sociology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Course: Contemporary American Society (undergraduate)

2015 Teaching Assistant, Dr. Paulo dos Santos, Department of Economics

The New School for Social Research, New York, NY

Course: History of Economic Thought

SERVICE TO PROFESSION

Reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, Convergence, Journal of Risk Finance, Netnomics

COMMUNITY SERVICE

2014-16 The Rockland Community Foundation, Board of Directors

2015-16 The Community Foundation of Orange & Sullivan, Finance & Investment Committee

2010- The Keith B. Hayes Foundation, co-founder & Board of Directors

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSES

American Sociological Association (ASA)

Economic Sociology Section Member

Organizations, Occupations & Work Section Member

STS Section Member

Theory Section Member

Canadian Sociological Association (CSA)

International Sociological Association (ISA)

Section on Economic Sociology

Section on the Sociology of Organizations

Section on the Sociology of Science & Tehnology

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Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder

FINRA Series 7

FINRA Series 63

FINRA Series 55

Life, Health & Accident Insurance License

REFERENCES

Available upon request