Author: Oleg Komlik
BITS & BRIEFS: Privatization increases inequality // Class mobility in Iran // Sacred cow or car? // Sociology of consumption and culture
Marx, Karl Marx – a Business Classic
BITS & BRIEFS: Nancy Fraser on a crisis of care // Thomas Piketty on Anthony Atkinson // Politics of divination and neoliberalism // From Karl Marx to basic income
Great academic opportunities: SASE conference and 10 additional calls for papers
Karl Polanyi on the Rise of Fascism and Market Economy
BREAKING NEWS from Davos: 2500 people controlling the world economy got out of their limos and recalled the “problem of inequality”
BITS & BRIEFS: Historical perspectives on modern finance // Social Insurance isn’t Socialism // Blocking Class Action lawsuits by Wall Street // Failure of equal employment laws in Japan
Zygmunt Bauman on Liberalism and Neoliberalism
Great academic opportunities: SASE conference, 9 calls for papers, 3 postdocs, 2 jobs and a spring school
Nietzsche: There is a type higher than the “productive” man
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”
Joseph Schumpeter’s definition of Economic Sociology
BITS & BRIEFS: Economists sell their prestige // Political Economy of Health Care // Economic forces in policing // Economic Anthropology
Economics is an Imperial Science
The ES/PE community keeps growing — more than 42,000 members reached
BITS & BRIEFS: Sharing Economy and Lifestyles // Newsletter in Economic Sociology // Digital Capitalism // Homelessness and Social Inclusion
Great academic opportunities: 9 calls for papers, 5 fellowships and 2 summer schools
