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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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