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Monthly Archives: November 2017
Great academic opportunities: 20 calls for papers, 4 jobs, 3 PhD fellowships, 2 postdocs, and 2 awards
Dear ES/PE community member, see below an abundant list of great and interesting academic opportunities: 17 calls for papers for conferences and workshops (some of them are partially funded), 4 job openings, 3 doctoral fellowships, 3 calls for papers for special issues, 2 visiting … Continue reading
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Nietzsche on Danger in Wealth and Pretense
Friedrich Nietzsche: “Danger in riches. — Only he who has spirit ought to have possessions: otherwise possessions are a public danger. For the possessor who does not know how to make use of the free time which his possessions could purchase him will … Continue reading
Probably the best “Acknowledgments” ever (3)
Erving Goffman, a preeminent sociologist and one the most influential scholars of the post-war social science, was greatly impressed during his graduate studies by the works of the British social anthropologist A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. Two decades later, Goffman — known for his witty … Continue reading
The Pricing of Progress and the Origins of GDP
by Eli Cook* In the past few years, roughly half a dozen books have come out examining the meteoric rise and profound impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). An economic indicator that measures the money-making capacities of a nation by … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, economic history, economics, GDP, valuation
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Giddens: We are suffering from ‘cosmopolitan overload’ and a huge task lies before us – to create responsible capitalism
by Labinot Kunushevci* From the editor: The following interview with a distinguished British sociologist and political thinker Lord Anthony Giddens is interesting from various perspectives. The interview is part of the forthcoming book by Labinot Kunushevci featuring his conversations with renowned social scientists. The emphases … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, European Union, globalization, media, modernity, politics, risk society
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BITS & BRIEFS: Sharing, not “Sharing Economy” // Zelizer on Money // Social movements create unionization // Schumpeter’s “Economics of Socialism” syllabus // Deaths of Despair rise
This time, especially worth reading – and sharing – articles: > Sharing, not “Sharing Economy”: For most of human history, there was no such thing as private property > “Money is not a social engine, but rather a malleable social product“, … Continue reading
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The Hardship of Accounting
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent. — “The Hardship of Accounting“ by Robert Frost, A Further Range, 1936 *** … Continue reading
Beyond the Left Turn: The Second Wave of Incorporation of the Popular Sectors in Latin America
by Federico M. Rossi* Neoliberalism has been defined as crucial to the reformulation of state-society relations in the postcorporatist period because it has undermined the national-populist or – as Cavarozzi and Garretón (1989) called it – “state-centered matrix”, through the weakening, … Continue reading
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Tagged Latin America, neoliberalism, politics, social movements, Unions
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Human Capital
“Our employees are our greatest asset. I say we sell them”, by William Haefeli *** Join Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr
BITS & BRIEFS: Economics is the biggest problem // Gramsci’s hegemony and the Left // Neoliberalism and Higher Education // Incarceration and children’s achievement gap // Trading votes
> Reducing our relations to calculations of cost and benefit, disciplined by competition and mediated by the manifold devices of economics, we run the risk of losing our humanity — by Philip Roscoe > Stuart Hall on Gramsci’s ‘hegemony’ and ‘regressive modernisation’ of … Continue reading
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