Follow ES/PE on Facebook
Follow ES/PE on Twitter
My Tweets-
Follow ES/PE on Instagram
Tags
- academia
- accounting
- austerity
- banking
- banking system
- capital
- capitalism
- central banking
- China
- class
- commercialization
- comparative political economy
- consumerism
- consumption
- coronavirus
- corporations
- credit
- crisis
- Culture
- debt
- democracy
- development
- diffusion
- economic history
- economics
- Economic Sociology
- education
- elite
- embeddedness
- environment
- ethics
- ethnography
- Europe
- European Union
- finance
- financial crisis
- financialization
- financial system
- financial markets
- fiscal sociology
- France
- gender
- Germany
- global governance
- globalization
- global political economy
- Greece
- growth
- higher education
- history of economic thought
- ideas
- inequality
- institutional change
- institutions
- interest groups
- investment
- Karl Marx
- Karl Polanyi
- knowledge
- labor
- Latin America
- law
- marketization
- markets
- Marxism
- media
- Middle class
- money
- morality
- neoliberalism
- networks
- policy
- Political economy
- politics
- poverty
- power
- privatization
- public sociology
- race
- regulation
- socialism
- social movements
- social networks
- social sciences
- social studies of finance
- sociology
- Sociology of economics
- sociology of knowledge
- state
- taxation
- trade
- Unions
- United Kingdom
- United States
- valuation
- varieties of capitalism
- wealth
- welfare
- work
- culture
Top Posts & Pages
- The Return of the State
- Remember the Golden Rule! Whoever has the gold, makes the rules!
- Albert Einstein on the power of ideas and imagination in science
- Ulrich Beck has died. His powerful concept of 'Risk Society' is relevant as never before
- Thatcherism's greatest achievement
- Great academic opportunities: 14 calls for papers, 7 postdocs, 2 jobs, 2 summer schools, PhD fellowship, an award
- The joke goes like this: A physicist, an engineer and an economist are stranded in the desert...
- Erich Fromm: Why have we subordinate the economic machine?
- Social Media, Authoritarian Capitalism, and Donald Trump
- Isaac Asimov on the thrill of learning and the peril of ignorance
Categories
Archives
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- September 2013
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
ES/PE on Social Media
Monthly Archives: August 2016
BITS & BRIEFS: Plutocracy and Deviant Globalization // Economic justice and black freedom movement // Corporate Power and the Myth of Liberal Ascendancy // Accounting empire
The Twin Insurgency: Plutocracy and Deviant Globalization compound each other’s insidiousness and cripple the state to establish a private zone of economic autonomy – by Prof. Nils Gilman (recommended!) Economic justice has always been at the core of black freedom struggles in … Continue reading
Posted in BITS & BRIEFS
Leave a comment
Growth Fetish
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” (The Tower of Babel … Continue reading
BITS & BRIEFS: Markets and demarketization // Mark Blyth’s reflections // Rosa Luxemburg on the Mass Strike // Moralities and economic change in Africa
Markets before capitalism, capitalist markets, and de-marketing services, capital and labor after capitalism – by Jesse A. Myerson A vivid interview with Prof. Mark Blyth on his own intellectual journey, International Political Economy, Brexit, TPP, economic sociology (which is “very interesting and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BITS & BRIEFS
Leave a comment
BITS & BRIEFS: Exhaustion as a status symbol // Sexism on Wall Street // Business schools drive inequality // Origins and crisis of Neoliberalism
Capitalism, Industrialization and Exhaustion as a Status Symbol: “Burnout is a diagnosis for winners” – by Hannah Rosefield 145 years of frat boys: Institutional Sexism and Gender Discrimination on Wall Street – by Myra MacPherson MBA programs drive Inequality: Business Schools teach … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BITS & BRIEFS
Leave a comment
Great academic opportunities: 5 calls for papers, 6 postdoc and job openings, 6 PhD positions
See below an abundant list of great academic opportunities: calls for papers, PhD fellowships, Postdocs and job openings in various topics and themes of economic sociology and political economy, with August 15 – September 6 deadlines. Share this list with your colleagues … Continue reading
Posted in Academic announcements
Leave a comment
Market is deceitful, and beauty is vain
“The rise of consumerism led the body image industries to develop a sure-fire formula for success: promote a thin ideal of beauty that the majority of women can never attain and thereby create virtually infinite demand among consumers. The irony … Continue reading
BITS & BRIEFS: Maintenance is undervalued // Slave trade and Native Americans // Breakfast and sociology of consumption // History of inequality and populism
Capitalism praises Innovation but fails at Maintenance which for society and working class matters more – by Prof. Andrew Russell An overlooked chapter of the colonial economy in America: enslaving Native Americans and pushing their tribes into slave trade Why is … Continue reading
Posted in BITS & BRIEFS
Leave a comment
Unpaid Labor and the Neoliberal Myth of Meritocracy
Several months ago, a British columnist James Bloodworth published his first book The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working Class Jobs. The main thesis of the book is precisely reflected in its title: it discusses the neoliberal false … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Name and Shame
Tagged inequality, labor, Middle class, neoliberalism, precariat
2 Comments
