Follow ES/PE on Facebook
Follow ES/PE on Twitter
My Tweets-
Follow ES/PE on Instagram
Tags
- academia
- accounting
- austerity
- banking
- banking system
- capital
- capitalism
- central banking
- China
- class
- commercialization
- comparative political economy
- consumerism
- consumption
- corporations
- COVID-19
- credit
- crisis
- Culture
- debt
- democracy
- development
- diffusion
- economic history
- economics
- Economic Sociology
- education
- elite
- embeddedness
- environment
- ethics
- ethnography
- Europe
- European Union
- finance
- financial crisis
- financialization
- financial system
- financial markets
- fiscal sociology
- France
- gender
- Germany
- global governance
- globalization
- global political economy
- Greece
- growth
- higher education
- history of economic thought
- ideas
- inequality
- institutional change
- institutions
- interest groups
- investment
- Karl Marx
- Karl Polanyi
- knowledge
- labor
- Latin America
- law
- marketization
- markets
- Marxism
- media
- Middle class
- money
- morality
- neoliberalism
- networks
- policy
- Political economy
- politics
- poverty
- power
- privatization
- public sociology
- race
- regulation
- socialism
- social movements
- social networks
- social sciences
- social studies of finance
- sociology
- Sociology of economics
- sociology of knowledge
- state
- taxation
- trade
- Unions
- United Kingdom
- United States
- valuation
- varieties of capitalism
- wealth
- welfare
- work
- culture
Top Posts & Pages
- Great academic opportunities: 7 calls for papers, 4 jobs, 4 postdocs, 3 PhD fellowships, 3 awards, a grant
- The Future of Work
- Remember the Golden Rule! Whoever has the gold, makes the rules!
- Adam Smith: "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production."
- Thatcherism's greatest achievement
- The joke goes like this: A physicist, an engineer and an economist are stranded in the desert...
- Albert Einstein on the power of ideas and imagination in science
- Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy, materialism and political economy
- The Long Divorce Between the Economy and Financial Markets
- If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money
Categories
Archives
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- September 2013
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
ES/PE on Social Media
Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Making of British Socialism: Uniting Hope, Faith and Economics
Why did the British Marxists follow a Tory aristocrat who dressed in a frock coat and top hat? What was the role of Christian theology and idealist philosophy in shaping socialist ideas? Did the Fabians develop a new economic theory? … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged economics, ideas, labor, Marxism, politics, socialism, United Kingdom
Leave a comment
How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
A British social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson has studied for decades the social effects of income inequality and how social forces affect health. In this disturbing and important talk he charts the hard data on economic inequality in various countries, and shows … Continue reading
Martin Luther King: “All Labor Has Dignity”
“We need an economic bill of rights. This would guarantee a job to all people who want to work and are able to work. It would also guarantee an income for all who are not able to work.” (Martin Luther … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged inequality, labor, Martin Luther King, race, Unions, United States
Leave a comment
The Instability of Inequality and Unregulated Capitalism
Nouriel Roubini: “Unregulated capitalism can lead to regular bouts of over-capacity,under-consumption, and the recurrence of destructive financial crises, fueled by credit bubbles and asset-price booms and busts… Any economic model that doesn’t properly address inequality will eventually face a crisis of … Continue reading
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America
Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick is a fascinating and deeply disturbing tale of hypocrisy, corruption, and insatiable greed. But more than that, it’s a much-needed reminder of how we got into the 2007-8 crisis after the four-decade sweeping march of neoliberalism. … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Alan Greenspan, deregulation, economics, finance, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, politics, Ronald Reagan, United States
Leave a comment
Progress for the Poor
One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. Drawing on the experiences and date of twenty countries since the 1970s, Lane Kenworthy (University of Arizona) addresses in his … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged growth, inequality, neoliberalism, poverty, social policy, taxation
1 Comment
Financial Centres and International Capital Flows in the 19th and 20th Centuries
As interest in financial markets intensifies, stimulated by the financial crisis of the early 21st century, Financial Centres and International Capital Flows in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, a new volume edited by Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and Youssef Cassis, brings together leading authorities in … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Argentina, banking system, capital, economic history, financial centres, France, London, markets, New York, politics, regulation, Russia
Leave a comment
Values and Networks: Former Classmates invest in the Same Stocks
“Is College a Focal Point of Investor Life?” (free access) is an interesting article published in Review of Finance by Massimo Massa and Andrei Simonov, in which they analyze the link between college interaction and portfolio choice. The researchers consider both the general imprinting … Continue reading
Posted in Papers
Tagged decision making, investment, networks, social capital, values
Leave a comment
Regulating International Finance and the Evolving Imbalance of Capitalisms since the 1970s
This worth-reading paper puts the ongoing G20 process of improving the regulation of international finance into a historically informed perspective. To understand the driving forces behind and obstacles to international cooperation in governing finance, Thomas Kalinowski (Max Planck Institute for … Continue reading
Identity Economics: Economists discover norms and social values
George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton’s Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being provides an important and compelling way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities–and not just economic incentives–influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Culture, decision making, economics, education, gender, identity, norms, work
Leave a comment
Behavioral Economics vs. Neoclassical Economics
In his recent article “Behavioral Economics: Toward a New Paradigm” a noted scholar Amitai Etzioni (George Washington University) discusses the challenges behavioral economics poses for neoclassical economics and the ways in which the young field may move forward. After reviewing some … Continue reading
