Monthly Archives: July 2017

Great academic opportunities: 23 calls for papers, 5 job openings, 2 postdocs, PhD course, and summer school

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Dear ES/PE community member, see below an abundant list of great and interesting academic opportunities: 20 calls for papers for conferences and workshops, 5 job openings, 3 calls for contributions to journals’ special issues, 2 postdoc positions, PhD course, and summer school, — … Continue reading →

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BITS & BRIEFS: Piketty and fellow economists // Why poverty clusters in city’s east // Tax Policy created the 1% // Civil rights and unionism // Consumption, debt, and personal well-being

Posted on July 23, 2017 by

>  Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? Piketty questioned the very value of having a credentialed economics elite empowered to make policy in the name of the public interest but not answerable to public opinion — by Marshall Steinbaum > In … Continue reading →

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Pierre Bourdieu: Economism is a form of ethnocentrism

Posted on July 19, 2017 by

Economic Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu is very rich and brilliantly enlightening, as well as non-univocal, and theoretically and intellectually multifaceted. Reflecting on his great contribution to the field, which he preferred to call “Economic Anthropology”, his classic The Logic of Practice (1990; open … Continue reading →

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Academic conferences — a true story ;-)

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

😉 See more memories of these unique intellectual fetes here and here 🙂   *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr

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Yes We Got Money

Posted on July 9, 2017 by

That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, ‘Goodbye’. (Richard Armour) “Yes We Got Money” by Klaus Langer *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr

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BITS & BRIEFS: NY Fiscal Crisis and austerity politics // Capitalism v. Nature // Employer is more powerful than a state // On derivatives with Randy Martin // Currency without Central Bank

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

This time — especially worth reading (and sharing) articles: > How bankers and technocrats used the 1975 New York Fiscal Crisis to permanently reshape the city: the early and exemplary case of imposing neoliberal austerity — an interview with Kim Phillips-Fein, an author … Continue reading →

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Leveling mountains to define Corporate Liability

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

In the seminal 1909 case, New York Central R. Co. v. United States, 212 U.S. 481-499, the railroad argued that as a corporation it could not be held criminally liable for the unlawful acts (such as paying prohibited rebates to another company) … Continue reading →

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