Author Archives: Oleg Komlik

Why is Northern Europe so Indebted? The Impact of Welfare on Household Debt

Posted on May 29, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

by Martino Comelli* You might think the U.S. would be world champion of household debt, yet the highest private indebtment has always been in the Nordic countries. Debt, however, takes different forms. In Scandinavia, inclusive welfare systems make debt into … Continue reading →

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B&B: History of being a liberal // Foucault’s power // Sen and Deaton talk // Accounting giants // Labor against its interests // Central banks think historically // Cities vs Multinationals

Posted on May 22, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

> “The story of the term neoliberalism is a tale about the changing meaning, power and, ultimately, diminishment of liberalism as a living political ideology”. The short history of ‘being liberal’ in the 20th century, depicted by Lawrence Glickman, an … Continue reading →

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Types of Sociology and Economics Papers :-)

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

Eventually we see genuine, intra-academic and professional self-reflections! 😉Locate the category you belong to, and share this with your colleagues and students! 🙂 While Maxim Ananyev boldly exposed above the affluence of economics knowledge, Kieran Healy offered below his own … Continue reading →

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Race, Class and Identity Politics

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

by Kaveh Yazdani* Of late, numerous liberal, right-wing and even some leftist journalists, academics and politicians have readily embraced the prism of “leftist identity politics”. More often than not, they have done so under the cloak of liberal universalism by … Continue reading →

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B&B: Markets and the Decline of Democracy // Materiality of Finance // Myth of Agricultural Revolution // Data and the Future of Work // Books on Globalization // Academic Managerialism

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

This time especially worth reading and sharing pieces: > “Free Markets and the Decline of Democracy” is an insightful lecture given in 2018 by the late John Weeks, an progressive heterodox economist and avid critic of capitalism. Being a rigorous … Continue reading →

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Thorstein Veblen on Business Interests in Education and Media

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) is a superb political economy book in which this original economist, talented sociologist and influential intellectual analyzed the growing corporate domination of culture, society and the economy in the US at the dawn … Continue reading →

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Great academic opportunities: 10 calls for papers, 10 jobs, 6 postdocs, 3 summer schools, 3 PhD fellowships, 3 awards

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

Dear ES/PE community member, find below a list of great academic opportunities:  10 calls for papers for conferences and special issues, 10 job openings, 6 post-doc positions, 3 PhD fellowships, 3 summer schools, and 3 awards in economic sociology, political … Continue reading →

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The Paradigm Shift in Political Economy and the Failure of the Mont Pelerin ideas

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

by Vadym Syrota* The current period of socio-economic development across the globe is featured by the paradigm shift in dominant economic theory similar to the one that took place in 1970-80s. The appearance of Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (1944) … Continue reading →

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Great academic opportunities: 10 calls for papers, 8 PhD fellowships, 6 jobs, 5 post-docs, 4 summer schools

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

Dear ES/PE community member, see below a list of great academic opportunities:  10 calls for papers for conferences and special issues, 8 PhD fellowships, 6 job openings, 5 post-doc positions, and 4 summer schools in economic sociology, political economy, and … Continue reading →

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How Capitalism Survives: Social Theory and Structural Change

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

by Francesco Boldizzoni* For as long as neoliberalism – the face that capitalism has assumed since the 1980s – has been showing signs of aging, there has been a tendency to view every crisis as a harbinger of impending epochal … Continue reading →

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Great academic opportunities: 16 calls for papers, 6 postdocs, 4 jobs, 3 PhD fellowships, 2 visiting posts, a summer course

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

Dear ES/PE community member, see below a list of great academic opportunities:  16 calls for papers for conferences and special issues, 6 post-doc positions, 4 job openings, 3 PhD fellowships, 2 visiting posts, and a summer course in economic sociology, … Continue reading →

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Condemning the University of Leicester — Standing for Political Economy and Critical Management Studies

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

On January 18 — the first day of second semester — senior managers at the University of Leicester (UK) notified dozens of academic staff members and professional employees that their jobs are at risk of redundancy. In the midst of … Continue reading →

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Making History

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

Voltaire: “Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”                            “En effet, l’histoire n’est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs.”      … Continue reading →

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Trump as Messiah

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

by Ivan Light*  How can they still back him? During the Trump presidency, this question arose again and again when, despite a relentless succession of failures, lies, outrages, and scandals, his voters loyally backed Trump. The question remains unanswered because, … Continue reading →

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“…The time was ripe for the fascist solution.”

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

“When things are obvious or clear, using ‘obvious’ or ‘clear’ is redundant. Use these words sparingly in your writing”, noticed Robert Gallager. I recalled this technical advice while thinking about writing something, let’s call it, substantial in the light of … Continue reading →

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