Month: January 2015
Karl Marx: “Capitalist production… disturbs the metabolic interaction between man and the earth.”
Anti-austerity Syriza wins Greece election in the shadow of the crisis; but the Greek crisis is not just about Greece
The incredible collapse of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: corporatism, neoliberalism and globalization run amok
What is Historical Sociology? Understanding the origins of the current social world and the consequences of its transformations
Financial economics, or “Would you please elaborate on ‘then something bad happened’?”
Religion, “free trade” and faithful globalization: producing a sacred vision of the economy
Simplistic Economics, or when real people ruin perfect economic models
You, Soros and Zizek’s “Cultural Capitalism”: We all BUY our redemption from being consumerists
International Political Economy scholars miss THE question of the 21st century: the rise of a global labor class living in poverty
Latin American capitalism: multinational corporations, business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets
Economists are self-confident and regularly wrong, admits Columbia economics professor
Ulrich Beck has died. His powerful concept of ‘Risk Society’ is relevant as never before
Tax avoidance as “tax planning”: global accounting firms on the make
