Monthly Archives: September 2014

Democratic pressure lead to abolition of ‪‎university‬ ‪tuition‬ fee in ‪‎Germany‬. This ‪‎neoliberal‬ experiment contributed to increasing educational and income ‪‎inequality‬

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

During the past eight years, university tuition fees were introduced into most German federal states as under Germany’s federal system, state governments run education policy. Yet during the last months, as a result of political processes and increasing public pressure … Continue reading →

Posted in Papers | Tagged Germany, higher education, inequality, neoliberalism, policy, politics | Leave a comment

“Economics graduate programs may be turning out a generation with too many idiot savants skilled in technique but innocent of real economic issues.”

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

A sentence adorning the title of this post was one of the conclusions of the American Economic Association’s Commission on Graduate Education in Economics, formed in 1991, chaired by Anne Krueger and included Kenneth Arrow, Robert Lucas, Joseph Stiglitz, Lawrence … Continue reading →

Posted in Papers | Tagged academia, economic history, Economic Sociology, economics, knowledge, Political economy, Sociology of economics | 2 Comments

What crisis? Everything must (not) change so that the IMF can remain the same.

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

During the last years, some economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have presented papers, that allegedly rejected several neoliberal ideas (on a range of issues, from ﬁscal policy to capital controls) which have been preached and enforced by its … Continue reading →

Posted in Papers | Tagged ‎market‬ ‪‎fundamentalism, crisis, economics, fiscal policy, global governance, IMF, monetary policy | Leave a comment

“I don’t believe in Global Warming”.. Yee…

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Posted in Books | Tagged environment | Leave a comment

“The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics” by Gabriel Abend brings a novel conceptual depth to the important field of the sociology of morality

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s, this fine book (open access to the introduction) examines the work of numerous business ethicists and organizations—such as Protestant ministers, business associations, journalists and … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged business history, ethics, interest groups, morality, norms | Leave a comment

Scots, Save Finance Capitalism!

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

It is fascinating to observe how the knights of the Neoliberal Globalism: economists (mainstream, sort of critical towards mainstream and those who sought repentance such as Jeffrey Sachs), the business elite, the nowadays’ robber barons, and their couriers in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Oleg Komlik | Tagged European Union, finance, nationalism, neoliberalism, Scotland, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

“The Supranational Corporation: Beyond the Multinationals” shows how corporations flaunt laws and act as controlling powers beyond the legal national constraints

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

This book by Laura Westra lays bare corporate actions both domestic and international, under the guise of legal “personhood” that has granted corporations increasing power. As a result, corporate decisions undermine and even nullify legal decisions made by governments designed … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged corporations, global governance, globalization, glocalization, law, multinationals, power, state | Leave a comment

Fascinating labor history: during September 1911 dozens children’s strikes were held across the UK and Ireland

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Children’s strikes were part of the huge upheaval of labour in the long summer of 1911. The widespread industrial unrest then has often been written about, but children’s strikes are little-known. Mass walkouts of schoolchildren took place at least in … Continue reading →

Posted in Papers | Tagged economic history, labor, strike, Unions, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

Who Are the Foreclosed? A portrait of Americans displaced by the mortgage foreclosure crisis

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Based on data from the National Suburban Survey from September 2010, Christopher Niedta & Isaac William Martin found that the person who has experienced home mortgage foreclosure since September 2007 resembles the average American but is somewhat likely to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Papers | Tagged crisis, housing, inequality, poverty, subprime mortgage crisis, United States | Leave a comment

The Causes of Structural Unemployment: Socio-political and Economic perspectives on Changes in Labor Markets

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

The Causes of Structural Unemployment skillfully integrates socio-political and economic perspectives to highlight the major changes in the structure of labor markets in affluent industrialized nations. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged crisis, financialization, globalization, inequality, labor, neoliberalism, shareholder value, sociology of work, unemployment | Leave a comment

“The left and Scottish nationalism”- what are the origins and implications of the left’s dalliance with Scottish independence?

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

“The left-wing case for Scottish independence now stands at the heart of the referendum battle, because it is ‪Labour‬’s core support that offers the only route to victory for the ‘yes’ camp. Strategically, this reliance on left-wing nationalism is both … Continue reading →