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

— “Pick a different theory of liberalism, and you get a different view of its past”. The language of liberal politics is confused, argues Helena Rosenblatt in this essay adapted from her excellent book The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century

— Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive. Dani Rodrik, Suresh Naidu and Gabriel Zucman wrote this important and optimistic essay almost 6 years ago. It is probably a proper time to reread it

— The extent and causes of poverty were much the same in 1900 as now. A serious cause of poverty, now as in 1900, is the number of people earning low pay, as employers impose fake self-employment and insecure contracts; the ‘gig economy’, as it is known — argues Patricia Thane, an author of The Rise and Fall of the British Welfare State: From Poverty in 1900 to Poverty in 2023

— How an emergent class of finance professionals changed the US economy & democracy in the 19th century, and how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth — A review of Michael Zakim’s Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made

— The rise of Technoscientific Capitalism and how does the rise of Big Tech relate to the financialization of capitalism and neoliberalism — a recorded talk by Kean Birch, a co-editor of Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism

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— Society has not really become more secular because it shifted its focus from the worship of God to the worship of markets and money — a podcast with Eugene McCarraher, the author of a superb The Enchantment of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

— No Kardashian has ever broken the Top 50 TikTok accounts. Why? If Instagram is the platform of flawless image curation, Tik Tok is the opposite—frantic, charismatic, and “real”; it’s a marketplace of aestheticized nonchalance

— “Perspectives on the Future in the Sociology of Work”, a recorded lecture by Duncan Gallie

— “Silent Partnership: Passive Investors and Financial Power in the Institutionalization of Markets, 1950-1975“, a recorded talk by Devin Kennedy

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