August 26, 2023August 29, 2023 Oleg Komlik The Institutionalization of Trusts: Money, Corporations, and Nation-states
August 29, 2022August 30, 2022 Oleg Komlik B&B: Samir Amin’s last essay | On Debt | Women and socialism | Precarity is a policy | Chocolate as money | Labor after pandemics | Pilgrimage and consumerism
April 17, 2018August 14, 2019 Oleg Komlik B&B: Thomas Piketty on Tony Atkinson // Cultural birth of Austrian Economics // Slavery made capitalism // Cold War fueled Free Market // Gendering of money // Topology of finance
January 7, 2018September 21, 2019 Oleg Komlik The Role of Money in Social Life: Morality and Power in the World of the Poor
November 13, 2017October 15, 2019 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: Sharing, not “Sharing Economy” // Zelizer on Money // Social movements create unionization // Schumpeter’s “Economics of Socialism” syllabus // Deaths of Despair rise
April 23, 2017April 24, 2017 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: Labor in the Global Economy // Invention of consumers // Money costs more for poor // Business of travel and immigration // Slavery fueled capitalism
January 4, 2017 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: Politics of Nobel Prize // Privilege of leisure // Future of money-like things // Corporate Social Science
December 28, 2016December 25, 2022 Oleg Komlik Christmas and conspicuous consumption: “People want something that shows money”
June 10, 2016September 1, 2016 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: Surveillance consumerism // Privatization of hope // FDR, public spending and money creation // I think therefore I am
April 15, 2016 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: State as the entrepreneur // Money and valuation in prison // Divided working class in China // The richest man who ever lived
March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: What is money? // Uberization of work and Shareholder Value // Credit and politics of inequality // R.I.P. John Urry
March 5, 2016March 23, 2016 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: Free trade and World War I // Zelizer’s The Social Meaning of Money // Why Anti-Tax is Pro-Family // Social Class and consumption in Japan
February 22, 2016March 23, 2016 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: Chinese consumer society // Corporate money and climate change // Political economy of intimacy // Systemic risk in consumer finance
January 23, 2016February 17, 2016 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: Ratings agencies still mislead // Consumer boycotts // Geoffrey Ingham on money // Inequality of sidewalks
December 20, 2015December 24, 2015 Oleg Komlik Baudrillard on money, speculation and the self-destabilization of markets
October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 Oleg Komlik Listen to the Athenian Solon: “Our virtue sticks with us and makes us strong, but money changes owners all day long”
June 12, 2015January 11, 2019 Oleg Komlik Thomas Piketty: “Take a serious interest in money… Those who have a lot of it never fail to defend their interests.”
May 3, 2015March 24, 2024 Oleg Komlik Money is a mode of governance in a material world of capitalism
January 2, 2015January 1, 2020 Oleg Komlik What is money? Can we grasp the current state of the economy as a crisis of money itself?