Month: September 2014
“Economics graduate programs may be turning out a generation with too many idiot savants skilled in technique but innocent of real economic issues.”
Georg Simmel — The Bridge and the Door
What crisis? Everything must (not) change so that the IMF can remain the same.
“I don’t believe in Global Warming”.. Yee…
“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
“Classification Situations: Life-chances in the Neoliberal Era” proposes to revisit class analysis through the prism of techno-social changes represented by the advent of market devices
Scots, Save Finance Capitalism!
Erich Fromm: Why have we subordinate the economic machine?
“The Supranational Corporation: Beyond the Multinationals” shows how corporations flaunt laws and act as controlling powers beyond the legal national constraints
Fascinating labor history: during September 1911 dozens children’s strikes were held across the UK and Ireland
Who Are the Foreclosed? A portrait of Americans displaced by the mortgage foreclosure crisis
The Causes of Structural Unemployment: Socio-political and Economic perspectives on Changes in Labor Markets
“The left and Scottish nationalism”- what are the origins and implications of the left’s dalliance with Scottish independence?
Who are the Liberals?
Inequality is not just about money. Inequality is literally a killing field.
Industry agreements increase wages for low-skilled workers, while company agreements increase medium- and high-skilled wages
Rationalism and Pseudo-rationalism according to Karl Popper
Eric Helleiner on the Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods, International Development, and Making of the Postwar Order
“Crisis, Value & Hope: Rethinking the Economy” — Current Anthropology special issue
Economic Sociology & Political Economy 