BITS & BRIEFS: Labor in the Global Economy // Invention of consumers // Money costs more for poor // Business of travel and immigration // Slavery fueled capitalism

Posted on April 23, 2017 by

Seemingly different, but actually quite related five interesting reads:

> How technological change, globalization and taxation shrank the share of labor income and empowered capital during the last three decades – by Prof. Kimberly Clausing

> Money costs more when you are poor; Inequality relates to the social organization of financial and monetary systems – by Prof. Nigel Dodd

> A short history of humans’ becoming “consumers”, and consumption turning vital for economists – by Prof. Frank Trentmenn 

> The business of immigration from Europe to the US in the 19th century and origins of travel industry – by Drew Keeling

> On Eric Williams’s classic argument for how the institution of slavery fueled capitalist development in the global North – by Adom Getachew


***
Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via
Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr

This entry was posted in BITS & BRIEFS. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s