Author: Oleg Komlik
Union Strength, Neoliberalism, and Income Inequality in the US since 1950
Sociologists are here to stay! We won’t be defeated by computers! :-)
“Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude” pulls together case studies on emerging lifestyles that balance consumption with the environment
Theory in Pictures: Cultural Capital (Pierre Bourdieu.. and others)
Minilateralism: How Trade, Soft Law and Finance Redefined Economic Statecraft
Paul Krugman: “Inequality is a Drag… Goodbye, trickle-down; hello, trickle-up.”
South Africa’s political economy: labor, politics and unfinished liberation
Hyman Minsky: “Today’s narrowly focused financiers do not conform to Schumpeter’s vision of bankers as the ephors of capitalism…”
Should We Trust Economists? Are they charlatans, to be scorned as medieval cranks?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “The rich holds the law in his purse..” // “Le riche tient la loi dans sa bourse..”
An interesting talk between David Graeber & Thomas Piketty on debt, capitalism, neoliberalism & inequality
Does Capitalism Have a Future? Wallerstein, Collins, Calhoun and Mann discuss whether the capitalist system can survive
Pope Francis, Thomas Piketty and Karl Polanyi featured the fascinating presidential address by Michael Burawoy at the International Sociological Association congress
Paris, May 1968: “Football to the footballers!”
Why did the transition from socialism to capitalism result in economic growth in some countries and decline in others? It is about mass privatization
Are you interested in grabbing a green tea or Asahi together at the International Sociological Association Congress in Yokohama?
In “Politics and Culture in an Age of Austerity” Amitai Etzioni argues that human contentment is perhaps best found outside of the high-growth, high-consumption paradigm
Karl Polanyi: “The market mechanism moreover created the delusion of economic determinism as a general law for all human society.. “
