Month: November 2014
How did the East India Company become the most powerful business in history?
18 focused interpretative digests of each chapter from Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”
Black Friday + Conspicuous consumption (Thorstein Veblen) = “Happiness”
Racism is more than individual prejudice. It’s about power, capitalism and class struggle
Economists admit: “Humans are fundamentally a social species with interaction patterns that shape their behaviors”. Eureka!!
The Value of Nothing and Market Society
Debt and Indebtedness: Ethics, the Environment and the Economy
A documentary “Rise Like Lions- Occupy Wall Street and the Seeds of Revolution” tells the story of the movement in its own words
Zygmunt Bauman: “Sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity.”
Corporate central planning and American industrialization
Overly honest reference: “Should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?” :-)
Is ‘regulatory capture’ as powerful and unpreventable as the informed consensus suggests?
The history of money and its “divine” metamorphosis in the 20th century
Economics of War — Economy and War
Removing social support is necessary to compel the poor to work — what’s the origin of this erroneous political idea?
On economists, sociologists, and evil – an anecdote and an insight from Paul Krugman
Economic Sociology & Political Economy 