Month: May 2014
Financialization, New Investment Funds, and Labour: An International Comparison
Add your PhD dissertation in sociology abstract and short info about yourself to the International Sociological Association website
An Angry Person’s Guide to Finance’ explains in simple terms the defining features of the post-1970s financial system
Analyzing continuity and change in the economy: a double movement between the public and the private meta-fields in society
‘Capital’ in the University of Chicago bookstore.. Too bad it’s by the wrong author ;-)
The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique — a must-read for every economic sociologist and political economist
“Anti-Corporate Movements and the Spread of Cooperative Forms in American Capitalism” by Marc Schneiberg
Varieties of Capitalism classification is not applicable to Asia
Health and social problems are worse in more unequal societies, even among the better off– not just for the poor
Adam Smith: “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.”
The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
Austerity Politics and Policy in the EU and the Eurozone crisis
John Urry on social and political dangers of offshoring
Economics Students of the World, Unite! Students from 19 countries call for change in the way the discipline is taught
Economic Sociology & Political Economy 