Author: Oleg Komlik
Market Rationality (under complete information, of course…)
Why are banking systems unstable in some countries–but not in others? Since 1840, the US had 12 crises; Canada had none.
“Critical political economy and capitalist diversity” — the Capital & Class journal special issue.
Name and Shame: Columbia University fired two Public Intellectuals because they hadn’t brought in enough grants
From Political Economy to Economics: the Desocialisation and Dehistoricisation of the Dismal Science
Corporate density is especially potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits—but not social welfare nonprofits—when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization
Noam Chomsky on the neoliberalization, marketization and managerialization of higher education
“Well-behaved Women seldom make History” (Laurel T. Ulrich)
“The Crises of Capitalism”, a animated clip narrated by Prof. David Harvey
Ludwig Lachmann: “Mechanistic theories are bound to produce results which look automatic”
Epinets: a new way of thinking about social networks
Welcome to the Private Police Force :-)
“Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA” tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s.
There is strong support across academics that maximizing shareholder value provides a problematic basis for the practice, theory, and regulation of corporate governance.
How does “naming and shaming” by Social Movements influence corporations? The effects of anti-sweatshop campaigns during the the 1990s on U.S. firms.
The Greek crisis is not just about Greece. “Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction” opens a new point of view on the global and the European crisis
Financialization and Income Inequality in the United States, 1967–2010
Zygmunt Bauman on Facebook, and the difference between a network and a community
