January 4, 2017 Oleg Komlik BITS & BRIEFS: Politics of Nobel Prize // Privilege of leisure // Future of money-like things // Corporate Social Science Legitimizing “Free Market” and rejecting Social Democracy: Prof. Avner Offer on the origins, power and politics of Nobel Prize in economic sciences How would society change if the aristocratic privilege of leisure becomes the birthright of all? What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? asks Prof. James Livingston Neither authority nor natural value underlies new monetary forms. Rather, that power lies in the infrastructure that that makes money move — argue Prof. Bill Maurer and Prof. Lana Swartz Corporate Social Science and the loss of curiosity: Prof. Peter Taylor on a well-resourced world of institutions parallel to universities that shapes social science in ways that serve private agendas rather than public goals or critical perspectives Friedrich Hayek accepts the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974 *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr / Reddit Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedInTumblrTelegramRedditPinterestPocketSkypeLike this:Like Loading... Related
