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Erik Olin Wright, an eminent #sociologist and one of the great public intellectuals of our time, has died at 72. Wright, a brilliant scholar and Marxist thinker, has not just taught us so much about #class, exploitation and power, he has also envisioned way to democratic and egalitarian alternatives to #capitalism. Erik Olin Wright was passionately and equally earnest about intellectual rigour and political relevance. Read his final words: https://economicsociology.org/2019/01/23/erik-olin-wright-has-contributed-to-making-utopias-real/ #sociology #marxism #politicaleconomyAs 2018 comes to an end, I rounded up the top 10 most-read posts of the year on the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community blog. You are welcome to (re)read and share them. I would like to use this opportunity and thank everyone for being here, liking and sharing - for making this community what it really is! Oleg Komlik https://economicsociology.org/2018/12/22/top-10-most-read-economic-sociology-and-political-economy-posts-of-2018/Tags
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
“People are living books. The real library of life is community.” Thank you all!
While 2014 is coming to an end and 2015 is knocking on our doors, I want to thank every one of you for being here and for making this community what it really is. Thank you for joining, for every … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Sociology, knowledge, Political economy, public sociology, social sciences
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The joke goes like this: A physicist, an engineer and an economist are stranded in the desert…
A physicist, an engineer and an economist are stranded in the desert. They are hungry. Suddenly, they find a can of corn. They want to open it, but how? The physicist says: “Let’s start a fire and place the can inside the … Continue reading
The original email that started Occupy Wall Street
On September 17, 2011 thousands of women and men gathered in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district. It was a day when Occupy Wall Street (#OccupyWallStreet) movement was publicly born, gradually receiving global attention and spawning the … Continue reading
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Tagged capital, capitalism, crisis, democracy, inequality, neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, public sociology, social movements, United States
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Pope Francis against neoliberalism, finance capitalism, consumerism and inequality
In November 2013 Pope Francis issued his first Apostolic Exhortation translated into English as The Joy of the Gospel. Over 224 pages, in remarkably direct and plain, but plentiful, language, Pope Francis – the first Pope from the Global South – outlines his vision on … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, consumerism, Culture, economics, finance, inequality, neoliberalism, policy, religion, violence
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History of Profit in the US: Corporations, Accounting and Capital
The case of The United Steel Workers of America v. The United States Steel Corporation (1980) concerned the closing of two steel mills. The steelworkers claimed U.S. Steel had promised to keep the two mills open so long as they … Continue reading
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Tagged accounting, capital, corporate governance, corporations, economic history, Economic Sociology, law, market evolution, profit, United States
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Tax breaks for corporations, low-paying jobs and higher taxes for you: a sketch from “Roseanne”
A classic pungent scene from the 1990’s sitcom Roseanne (1 min 40 sec)
The book of the year: “The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique”
In The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers did a superb academic work, sagaciously encountering readers with a powerful intellectual legacy of Karl Polanyi through their insightful analysis of his writings, especially of his masterpiece … Continue reading
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Tagged market fundamentalism, Economic Sociology, Karl Polanyi, neoliberalism, Political economy
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Putting a human face on statistics: unemployed women in the public workforce system
An ethnographic sociologist Mary Gatta (Rutgers University) went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center which is supposed to be an unemployed worker’s go-to resource on the way to re-employment. Weaving together her own account … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, Great Recession, inequality, policy, poverty, unemployment, United States, welfare
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What is the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics?
😉 By Zach Weiner
Theodor Adorno on philosophy, academia, and market
Theodor Adorno: “Out of piety, laziness, and calculation, philosophy continues to muddle through in an ever narrower academic framework, and even there, it is increasingly being replaced with organized tautology. Whoever entrusts themselves to credentialed profundity, fall victim just as a … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, Frankfurt school, marketization, public sociology, social sciences
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