
Search Results for: money


B&B: Samir Amin’s last essay | On Debt | Women and socialism | Precarity is a policy | Chocolate as money | Labor after pandemics | Pilgrimage and consumerism

B&B: Thomas Piketty on Tony Atkinson // Cultural birth of Austrian Economics // Slavery made capitalism // Cold War fueled Free Market // Gendering of money // Topology of finance

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

BITS & BRIEFS: Sharing, not “Sharing Economy” // Zelizer on Money // Social movements create unionization // Schumpeter’s “Economics of Socialism” syllabus // Deaths of Despair rise

Yes We Got Money

BITS & BRIEFS: Labor in the Global Economy // Invention of consumers // Money costs more for poor // Business of travel and immigration // Slavery fueled capitalism

What is Money?

“I listen to money singing… It is intensely sad.”

BITS & BRIEFS: Politics of Nobel Prize // Privilege of leisure // Future of money-like things // Corporate Social Science

Christmas and conspicuous consumption: “People want something that shows money”

In Cryptography We Trust — Money as a Secularized Theodicy

BITS & BRIEFS: Surveillance consumerism // Privatization of hope // FDR, public spending and money creation // I think therefore I am
BITS & BRIEFS: State as the entrepreneur // Money and valuation in prison // Divided working class in China // The richest man who ever lived
BITS & BRIEFS: What is money? // Uberization of work and Shareholder Value // Credit and politics of inequality // R.I.P. John Urry
BITS & BRIEFS: Free trade and World War I // Zelizer’s The Social Meaning of Money // Why Anti-Tax is Pro-Family // Social Class and consumption in Japan
BITS & BRIEFS: Chinese consumer society // Corporate money and climate change // Political economy of intimacy // Systemic risk in consumer finance
BITS & BRIEFS: Ratings agencies still mislead // Consumer boycotts // Geoffrey Ingham on money // Inequality of sidewalks

Baudrillard on money, speculation and the self-destabilization of markets

Listen to the Athenian Solon: “Our virtue sticks with us and makes us strong, but money changes owners all day long”

Thomas Piketty: “Take a serious interest in money… Those who have a lot of it never fail to defend their interests.”

Money is a mode of governance in a material world of capitalism

What is money? Can we grasp the current state of the economy as a crisis of money itself?

The history of money and its “divine” metamorphosis in the 20th century
