Dive and delve into these very interesting and enlightening readings and recorded talks on various topics in Economic Sociology and Political Economy:

> How the “Chicago School” of antitrust, with its narrow focus on consumer welfare, came to dominate antitrust law and ushered in a new era of monopoly capitalism — Ganesh Sitaraman reflects on Tim Wu’s The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

> Economics ignores racialized issues, as well as historical and structural factors. Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven and Surbhi Kesar show why the methodological individualism of neo-classical economics has to be re-examined.

> “Global Power in the North-Atlantic Financial System”, a recorded video panel featuring Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Dominik Leusder, Carla Norrlof, Elham Saeidinezhad, Waltraud Schelke Herman, and Mark Schwartz; moderated by Adam Tooze, an author of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy

> The spread of café life through European cities in the 19 century generated social habits of self-expression that abetted the appetite for self-government. Democracy wasn’t made in the streets but among the saucers — Adam Gopnik reflects on Shachar Pinsker’s A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture

> To make a computer “think” as a human, Herbert A. Simon made it think like a corporation, based on his seminal book “Administrative Behaviour”. Frederick Taylor, no less than physicists, gave rise to Artificial Intelligence — argues Jonnie Penn

> Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million African people aboard transatlantic slave vessels. This freely available online archive documents nearly 36,000 slave voyages and reveals where slaves were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the slave traders, and more

> On the relationship of Russian and Soviet economics with politics from the late Tsarist era until the early Putin era, and on the relationship between anthropology and the history of economic thought — a podcast with Adam Leeds

> “The Economic Sociology of Illicit Drug Markets” — While economists have modelled drug markets as an abstract whole and criminologists have researched individual street-level marketplaces, in this recorded talk Kim Moeller examines drug markets through the perspectives of institutional- and network-oriented economic sociology

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