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January 4, 2023January 13, 2023 Oleg Komlik

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

August 29, 2022August 30, 2022 Oleg Komlik

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

April 22, 2022 Oleg Komlik

B&B: Free time before capitalism | Kolko, a heretic historian | Wellness-industrial complex | Entrepreneurial state | Productivity growth vs. wage stagnation |Lack of black economists

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Oleg Komlik

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

August 6, 2021September 12, 2021 Oleg Komlik

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

May 22, 2021May 22, 2021 Oleg Komlik

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

April 11, 2021April 22, 2022 Oleg Komlik

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

January 2, 2021January 5, 2021 Oleg Komlik

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

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Oleg Komlik

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

October 21, 2020November 17, 2020 Oleg Komlik

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?

September 14, 2020 Oleg Komlik

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

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 Oleg Komlik

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

June 24, 2020June 27, 2020 Oleg Komlik

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

June 12, 2020 Oleg Komlik

The Probable Implications of the Coronavirus Crisis — Bruno Latour, James Galbraith, Mike Davis

April 11, 2020 Oleg Komlik

The Probable Implications of the Coronavirus Crisis — Mariana Mazzucato, Eva Illouz, Alain Badiou

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Oleg Komlik

The Probable Implications of the Coronavirus Crisis — Costas Lapavitsas, Katharina Pistor, David Runciman

March 27, 2020April 3, 2020 Oleg Komlik

The Probable Implications of the Coronavirus Crisis — David Harvey, William Davies, Ivan Krastev

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 Oleg Komlik

The Probable Implications of the Coronavirus Crisis — Adam Tooze, Judith Butler, Radhika Desai

March 20, 2020March 25, 2020 Oleg Komlik

The Probable Implications of the Coronavirus Crisis — Slavoj Zizek, Branko Milanovic, David Grossman

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 Oleg Komlik

B&B: Hannah Arendt // Research for profit // Neoliberalism and family values // Lessons of 1968 // Sociology of consumption // Index funds and inequality // Alienation and work

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 Oleg Komlik

B&B: Amartya Sen // Tulipmania // Sadie Alexander // Surveillance and Authoritarianism // The Mafia and weak state // New Working Class // ‘Smart’ city serves business

November 9, 2019November 14, 2019 Oleg Komlik

B&B: Not The Nobel Prize winner // Malls and escapism // Capital and corporation // Keynesianism // Slavery and US universities // Middle class // Sex, lies and financial crises

August 31, 2019 Oleg Komlik

B&B: Best books in political economy // Raising elite // Missing from economics: women // Philanthropy’s interests // Living now in the pre-industrial age // Black businesses and the Civil Rights Movement

August 13, 2019August 14, 2019 Oleg Komlik

B&B: Sins of economics // Appropriating the planet // Living in precarity // You are financier // Historians and economists // Labor and serendipity // Neoliberalism uses imperialism

July 15, 2019August 2, 2019 Oleg Komlik

B&B: Neoliberalism as creative destruction // Surveillance business // History of capitalism and counter-genealogy of race // Workplace is the hub of political power // GDP is irrelevant

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