Month: April 2014
Reviews of 6 interesting books on housing, urban policy, privatisation of cities and homelessness
“Insurgent Capitalism: Island, Bricolage and the Re-making of Finance” by Donald MacKenzie & Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Piketty, Krugman & Stiglitz talk about Piketty’s ”Capital in the 21st Century”
The Economic Sociology and Political Economy community reached 17,000 members
What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire
Economics professor: Economic models are wrong and invalid, but simple and useful
The development and transformation of clusters and industrial sectors in East and Southeast Asia
How much did internationally promoted ideas about supervisory ‘best practice’ influence institutional design choices?
A joke from Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank ;-)
“Politics in the Age of Austerity” analyzes the dilemmas governments face as they seek to reconcile the conflicting demands of voters and ‘the markets’
Fascinating Story of Basic Income: A Town without Poverty, with Better Well-being and Health
“Bank Behaviour and Resilience: the Effect of Structures, Institutions and Agents” challenges conventional thinking about the varieties of capitalism
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