Gustavo Onto
Gustavo holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the National Museum (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), an MA in Sociology from Columbia University (USA) and a Masters in Public Management and Government from Getúlio Vargas Foundation (EAESP, São Paulo). BA in Economics (University of São Paulo).
He is currently a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He coordinates the research center documenta - Laboratory for the Anthropology of the State, Regulation and Public Policy and acts as an associate researcher of the Center for Research on Culture and Economy (www.nucec.net, NuCEC). He is a member of the Behavioural Studies Panel at the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), where he organizes the Anthropology of Finance Study Group. He was visiting researcher at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in France and at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He collaborates with the website Estudios de la Economia (http://estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com).
Areas of research: anthropology of economic regulation and policy; anthropology of money, debt, and markets; anthropology of the state and bureaucracy; anthropology of science and knowledge; anthropology of time and future; history of economic thought.
Research Projects
His doctoral research consisted of an ethnographic description of knowledge practices involved in the Brazilian antitrust policy, as implemented by the federal antitrust authority. His aim was to describe how economic subjects and objects are conceived, produced and governed from an antitrust agency, focusing on the way regulatory practices are interpreted by different professionals, in order to foreground anthropological issues that emerge between legal and economic knowledge regarding, for example, the statute of the market, the definition of economic groups, the enactment of legal personhood, and the meaning of documental practices. He is currently writing a book exploring the temporalities of antitrust knowledge practices and of Brazilian economic policy in the last decade.
As a post-doctoral research, he is concluding a project with researchers at Copenhagen Business School regarding ethnographic issues that emerge in collaborative situations between social scientists and economists, engineers or policymakers that work in market design projects or economic policymaking. The project aims at putting into comparison international collaborative experiments, among others the one currently established with the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).
More recently, he initiated a research on recent Brazilian fiscal and monetary policies. It focuses particularly on the moralities and temporalities that involve austerity measures and public debt management in the country.
Publications in English
ONTO, Gustavo. Corporate personhood and the competitive relation in antitrust. IN: Neiburg and Guyer (eds.) The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory. Hau Books/Chicago University Press, pp. 179-202, 2020.
ONTO, Gustavo. Competition on paper: artifacts of visualization in antitrust policy. Economic Sociology, The European Electronic Newsletter, v. 20, p. 24-30, 2019.
ONTO, Gustavo; UNDURRAGA, T. ; ARIZTIA, T. . The centrality of lateral economic objects: examples from Latin America. EASST Review, v. 35, p. 23, 2016.
ONTO, Gustavo. Regulation as Cultural Transformation: the “educational role” of the Brazilian competition policy. Revista Direito e Práxis, v. 7, p. 690-715, 2016.
ONTO, Gustavo. The market as lived experience: on the knowledge of markets in antitrust analysis. Vibrant (Florianópolis), v. 11, p. 159-190, 2014.
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He is currently a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He coordinates the research center documenta - Laboratory for the Anthropology of the State, Regulation and Public Policy and acts as an associate researcher of the Center for Research on Culture and Economy (www.nucec.net, NuCEC). He is a member of the Behavioural Studies Panel at the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), where he organizes the Anthropology of Finance Study Group. He was visiting researcher at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in France and at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He collaborates with the website Estudios de la Economia (http://estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com).
Areas of research: anthropology of economic regulation and policy; anthropology of money, debt, and markets; anthropology of the state and bureaucracy; anthropology of science and knowledge; anthropology of time and future; history of economic thought.
Research Projects
His doctoral research consisted of an ethnographic description of knowledge practices involved in the Brazilian antitrust policy, as implemented by the federal antitrust authority. His aim was to describe how economic subjects and objects are conceived, produced and governed from an antitrust agency, focusing on the way regulatory practices are interpreted by different professionals, in order to foreground anthropological issues that emerge between legal and economic knowledge regarding, for example, the statute of the market, the definition of economic groups, the enactment of legal personhood, and the meaning of documental practices. He is currently writing a book exploring the temporalities of antitrust knowledge practices and of Brazilian economic policy in the last decade.
As a post-doctoral research, he is concluding a project with researchers at Copenhagen Business School regarding ethnographic issues that emerge in collaborative situations between social scientists and economists, engineers or policymakers that work in market design projects or economic policymaking. The project aims at putting into comparison international collaborative experiments, among others the one currently established with the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).
More recently, he initiated a research on recent Brazilian fiscal and monetary policies. It focuses particularly on the moralities and temporalities that involve austerity measures and public debt management in the country.
Publications in English
ONTO, Gustavo. Corporate personhood and the competitive relation in antitrust. IN: Neiburg and Guyer (eds.) The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory. Hau Books/Chicago University Press, pp. 179-202, 2020.
ONTO, Gustavo. Competition on paper: artifacts of visualization in antitrust policy. Economic Sociology, The European Electronic Newsletter, v. 20, p. 24-30, 2019.
ONTO, Gustavo; UNDURRAGA, T. ; ARIZTIA, T. . The centrality of lateral economic objects: examples from Latin America. EASST Review, v. 35, p. 23, 2016.
ONTO, Gustavo. Regulation as Cultural Transformation: the “educational role” of the Brazilian competition policy. Revista Direito e Práxis, v. 7, p. 690-715, 2016.
ONTO, Gustavo. The market as lived experience: on the knowledge of markets in antitrust analysis. Vibrant (Florianópolis), v. 11, p. 159-190, 2014.
CV Lattes
Academia.edu
ResearchGate