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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Karl Polanyi: “The market mechanism moreover created the delusion of economic determinism as a general law for all human society.. “
Karl Polanyi: “The market mechanism moreover created the delusion of economic determinism as a general law for all human society.. To attempt to apply economic determinism to all human societies is little short of fantastic. Nothing is more obvious to … Continue reading
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Tagged market fundamentalism, books, Economic Sociology, Karl Polanyi, Political economy
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Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Postcommunist Countries and demolishing myths about markets, money and globalization
In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card? How do markets convince people to use cards, make their transactions visible to authorities, assume the potential risk of fraud, and … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged consumption, credit cards, globalization, market evolution, money, Post-communist countries
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“Banks and the False Dichotomy in the Comparative Political Economy of Finance” challenges the understanding of bank-based financial system
The wide-ranging varieties of capitalism literature rests on a particular conception of banks and banking that, the authors argue, no longer reflects the reality of modern financial systems. Iain Hardie, David Howarth, Sylvia Maxfield and Amy Verdun take advantage of the greater … Continue reading
Let the academic conferences season begin! ;-)
We’d now like to open the floor to shorter speeches disguised as questions. 🙂 See here and here more memories of these unique intellectual fetes! 😉 *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr
What Class is all about? How do Neoliberalism and Finance Capitalism work?
In this concise and instructive animated presentation (12 min), an economist Richard D. Wolff (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) tackles these questions and applies them to the 2007-8 “subprime crisis”. *** Join Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr / Reddit / Telegram
“Governance across Borders: Transnational Fields and Transversal Themes”
What is global and what is local in contemporary capitalism? What makes markets tick? How can we regulate finance? Who owns knowledge? What makes expertise? How can we protect the environment and fight poverty? Governance across Borders: Transnational Fields and … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, accounting, environment, global governance, globalization, knowledge, labor, Microcredit, regulation
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The Future of Good Jobs and Labor Unions in the Service Economy
The shift to service-based economy has often been accompanied by the expansion of low wage and insecure employment. Many consider the effects of this shift inevitable. But is there another way? Virginia Doellgast (LSE) has conducted an impressive study of … Continue reading
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Tagged comparative political economy, Germany, globalization, labor, neoliberalism, Unions, United States, varieties of capitalism
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A documentary “The Price of the World Cup” shows Brazil you won’t see on your TV
The city of Fortaleza that will host six world cup games is the fifth most unequal city in the world. 3 million inhabitants live in Fortaleza, most of them on a bare minimum. 110 million euros were invested in the … Continue reading
Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Free markets’ as a religious belief
Joseph Stiglitz: “The advocates of free markets in all their versions say that crises are rare events, though they have been happening with increasing frequency as we change the rules to reflect beliefs in perfect markets. I would argue that … Continue reading
“Seeing, Knowing, and Regulating Financial Markets: Moving the Cognitive Framework from the Economic to the Social”
This (open access) interesing and comprehensive paper by Julia Black (LSE), argues that in order to regulate financial markets, we need a more sophisticated and realistic cognitive framework through which to analyse markets’ dynamics and on which to base their regulation. To that … Continue reading
Pikettymania
After Financial Times’ botched and bungled attack on Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty–First Century fainted, in order to escape from dealing with the essence Bloomberg BusinessWeek chose a different tactic which is a) kind of funny, b) pathetic.
Varieties of Liberalization: Politics of Social Solidarity and Institutional Changes in Labor Market
A leading political scientist and institutional scholar Kathleen Thelen (MIT) examines in her new excellent book Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing … Continue reading
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Tagged Denmark, Germany, institutions, labor, liberalization, Netherlands, solidarity, Sweden, United States, varieties of capitalism, vocational education
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Open access to the best 20 papers from Journal of European Public Policy from the last 20 years
Open access to the best 20 papers from Journal of European Public Policy from the last 20 years concerning various topics in Economic Sociology, Political Economy, Europeanization and sociology of knowledge. Have an enlightening reading!
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Tagged European integration, European Union, policy, Political economy
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