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How 19th century finance and housing associations shaped 20th century housing regimes in Germany and the United States
Why has Germany become a country of tenants with a housing policy directed at private and public rental construction? On the other hand, why has the United States turned into a homeownership country? In an interesting article, Sebastian Kohl (University … Continue reading
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Tagged comparative political economy, economic history, finance, Germany, housing, institutions, policy, United States, urban policy
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Reviews of 6 interesting books on housing, urban policy, privatisation of cities and homelessness
Reading list of 6 books about housing, urban policy and future of our cities from LSE Review of Books.
Great academic opportunities: 15 calls for papers, 4 postdocs, 3 jobs, 2 visiting positions, 2 PhD stipends, winter school, and PhD course
Dear ES/PE community member, see below an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 15 calls for papers for conferences and workshops (some are fully or partially funded), 4 post-doc and temporary positions, 3 job openings, 2 visiting positions, 2 doctoral fellowships, a … Continue reading
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Great academic opportunities: 20 calls for papers, 9 jobs, 5 doctoral fellowships, 3 summer schools, 4 postdoc positions, and 2 grants
Dear ES/PE community member, see below an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 19 calls for papers for conferences and workshops (some are fully or partially funded), 9 job openings, 5 doctoral fellowships, 3 summer schools (fully or partly funded), 4 postdoc and visiting positions, … Continue reading
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BITS & BRIEFS: Jens Beckert // Humanities and finance // Globalization as an idea // Black Neoliberalism // Bridging Comparative Political Economy and Economic Sociology
> Congratulations to Jens Beckert on being awarded Germany’s highest scientific award Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (€2.5 million in research funds) for his work in reinvigorating the social sciences with an interdisciplinary perspective, especially in the intersection of sociology and economics. … Continue reading
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Great academic opportunities: 13 calls for papers, 11 job openings, 5 PhD positions, and 3 visiting fellowships
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Great academic opportunities: 23 calls for papers, 5 job openings, 2 postdocs, PhD course, and summer school
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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The Intellectual Origins of Sharing Economy
Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (1895 – 1983) was a renowned and influential American inventor, designer, systems theorist, and futurist. Fuller saw himself as a practical philosopher and worked to solve global problems surrounding housing, transportation, energy, ecological destruction, and poverty. During his … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, economics, environment, ideas, sharing economy
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Great academic opportunities: 9 calls for papers, 3 PhD positions, 2 job openings, and a summer school
See below a list of great academic opportunities: 9 calls for papers for interesting conferences and workshops, 3 PhD and 2 Job openings, and a summer school on various topics in economic sociology and political economy, with February 20 – March 13 deadlines. Share this … Continue reading
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Debt Matters: Inequality and Foregone Medical Care
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”- Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars have long observed disparities in health, health behaviors and stress by socioeconomic position. But there is a limited understanding of … Continue reading
Credit makes you free! Neoliberalism, politics of debt and the subjugation of the working poor
Under the rubric of ‘financial inclusion’, lending to the poor – in both the global North and global South – has become a highly lucrative and rapidly expanding industry since the 1990s. A key inquiry of Susanne Soederberg’s penetrating and … Continue reading
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Tagged class, credit, debt, Economic Sociology, financialization, governance, institutions, Mexico, neoliberalism, poverty, power, state, United States
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Racism is more than individual prejudice. It’s about power, capitalism and class struggle
Racism is about more than individual prejudice. It relies on the interests of those who have the real power in society and the economy, and use every possible means to hold onto it. It’s about capitalism and class struggle. This … Continue reading
Why the Federal Reserve Failed to See the 2008 Financial Crisis: The Role of “Macroeconomics” as a Sensemaking and Cultural Frame
In this very interesting and enlightening paper by Neil Fligstein, Jonah Stuart Brundage & Michael Schultz (University of California, Berkeley), they tackle one of the puzzles about the crisis of 2008: why the regulators were so slow to recognize the … Continue reading
Who Are the Foreclosed? A portrait of Americans displaced by the mortgage foreclosure crisis
Based on data from the National Suburban Survey from September 2010, Christopher Niedta & Isaac William Martin found that the person who has experienced home mortgage foreclosure since September 2007 resembles the average American but is somewhat likely to be … Continue reading
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Tagged crisis, housing, inequality, poverty, subprime mortgage crisis, United States
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Austerity: we are not all in it together
By Michael Kitson, Ron Martin, and Peter Tyler Europe has a Greek tragedy; the US is grappling with a Tea Party; and in the UK we have the economic consequences of austerity. The focus is budget deficits, public expenditure cuts … Continue reading
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