Month: August 2014
C. Wright Mills’ resonant voice: “You must not expect me to provide a Balanced View. I am not a sociological book-keeper…”
Slavoj Žižek: Why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming?
Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
“National Policy-Making: Domestication of Global Trends” shows how local policies appear to be synchronized globally yet are developed with distinct “national” flavors
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité — OUT; Austérité, Précarité, Compétitivité — IN
Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money
Union Strength, Neoliberalism, and Income Inequality in the US since 1950
Sociologists are here to stay! We won’t be defeated by computers! :-)
“Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude” pulls together case studies on emerging lifestyles that balance consumption with the environment
Theory in Pictures: Cultural Capital (Pierre Bourdieu.. and others)
Minilateralism: How Trade, Soft Law and Finance Redefined Economic Statecraft
Paul Krugman: “Inequality is a Drag… Goodbye, trickle-down; hello, trickle-up.”
South Africa’s political economy: labor, politics and unfinished liberation
Hyman Minsky: “Today’s narrowly focused financiers do not conform to Schumpeter’s vision of bankers as the ephors of capitalism…”
Should We Trust Economists? Are they charlatans, to be scorned as medieval cranks?
Economic Sociology & Political Economy 