
Month: April 2016


Consensus in economics: when and why economists stopped discussing each other’s work
BITS & BRIEFS: Philanthrocapitalism // Glass ceiling persists // Graeber on feudalism disguised as capitalism // The correctional-industrial complex and slavery

Great academic opportunities: 6 calls for papers, 2 PhD fellowships and a summer school
BITS & BRIEFS: State as the entrepreneur // Money and valuation in prison // Divided working class in China // The richest man who ever lived

Neoliberalism vs. Democracy
BITS & BRIEFS: Identity and work // Corporate risk taking and accountability // Economists and discredited ideas // Labor and unionisation in India

Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy, materialism and political economy
