Monthly Archives: January 2018

Foucault: Neoliberalism is not laissez-faire, but permanent vigilance, activity, and intervention

Posted on January 29, 2018 by

The following Michel Foucault’s sharp insights on neoliberalism were presented during his lecture series “The Birth of Biopolitics” at the Collège de France in 1979 — a few months before Thatcher and Reagan took power, but several decades after Walter Lippmann, … Continue reading →

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BITS & BRIEFS: How the Great Regression began // Leisure for the sake of capitalism // Inequality Paradigm // Evictions never end // Precarity and fast food // State-regulated prostitution

Posted on January 13, 2018 by

> Wolfgang Streeck: “Neoliberalism arrived with globalization or else globalization arrived with neoliberalism; that is how the Great Regression began… Whoever puts a society under economic or moral pressure to the point of dissolution reaps resistance from its traditionalists.” > The rhetoric … Continue reading →

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Joseph Schumpeter: Social structures are coins that do not readily melt

Posted on January 11, 2018 by

Economic sociologists an political economists will surely discern the grace and insight in the following Joseph Schumpeter’s quote (from his magnum opus Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy), which beautifully describes the essence of institutions, their socio-historical embeddedness, as well as their persistence in front of … Continue reading →

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The Role of Money in Social Life: Morality and Power in the World of the Poor

Posted on January 7, 2018 by

by Ariel Wilkis* “Perhaps behind the coin is God.” — Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir (1949)  My book The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor (Stanford University Press, 2017) offers a new focus for … Continue reading →

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Great academic opportunities: 22 calls for papers, 5 postdocs, 4 jobs, 3 summer schools, 3 awards, 2 PhD fellowships

Posted on January 3, 2018 by

Dear ES/PE community member, see below an abundant list of great and (especially) interesting academic opportunities: 21 calls for papers for conferences and workshops (many are free, some are partially or fully funded), 5 postdoc and visiting positions, 4 job openings, 3 doctoral … Continue reading →

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