Category: BITS & BRIEFS
B&B: Sociology of Inequality| Energy & Power| Ideas & financial stability| Trade wars are class wars| Feminist Economics| Big Tech’s consultants against EU| US’ “excess deaths”
B&B: The Chicago School antitrust | From Taylorism to AI | Economics ignores race | The Power of North-Atlantic Finance | Economic Sociology of Illicit Markets | Russian political economy
B&B: The Administrative State | Automating Finance | Dependency Theory | Youth Unemployment | Spatial inequality | Fukuyama | More
B&B: Capitalizing a Cure | Poverty as a political tool | Heuristics of Discovery | Regulation and Governance | Ethnographic economics | Jewish business forms
B&B: Free Market idea | New industrial state | UN Economic Order | Inequality industry | Humanities’ economics | Feminism & anti-work | Capitalism erodes imagination
B&B: The dangerous ‘free will’ | Business of scholarship | From hippies into consumers | Books on politics and markets | The poor as an alien | Banks and the Racial Gap
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: Free time before capitalism | Kolko, a heretic historian | Wellness-industrial complex | Entrepreneurial state | Productivity growth vs. wage stagnation |Lack of black economists
B&B: Commodification of higher education | Against human capital | Shareholder Value kills innovation | History of consumer credit | Crowdfunding is about community | Austerity leads to polarisation
B&B: Critique of wellness | Humans as robots | Women and Work | Economy runs on racism | Capitalism and sexual dysfunction |Corporations’ civil rights |Inequality hurts longevity
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
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
B&B: Neoliberal Feminism // Corporate personhood // Kinship, religion and blockchain // Why is strike called ‘strike’? // The history of the planning state // Business’ grasp of universities
B&B: Tax flight myth // Covid-19 and a crisis of neoliberalism // Models, morals and Wall Street // Caste systems persist // Smart City or corporate siege // New Labour’s unions reform
B&B: Debt is a social construction // Erasure of a black middle class // Miseducation and inequality // Neoliberal quantification in academia // Promoting democracy or “free market” ideas?
B&B: Laissez-faire & monetary technophilia // Psychoanalysis as a capitalist drug // Sociology and economics // Hobsbawm on May Day // Big Tech uses the Covid-19 crisis // Artists’ strikes
B&B: Piketty – Covid-19 is an opportunity // Gendered lens on Covid-19 // Economic histories of pandemics // Pharma and the shareholder value // Network, not skills // Nature’s economics
B&B: Economists’ blindness to racism // We are all fast-food workers // For abolition of work // Arms purchase // Tests for profit // The financialized imagination // Gendered economics
