Category Archives: BITS & BRIEFS

This time, especially worth reading  and sharing articles: > Thomas Piketty reflects on Tony Atkinson’s remarkable intellectual journey, his path-breaking works, and his last book Inequality: What Can Be Done? > How 1920-30s Viennese politics and culture shaped Austrian Economics and … Continue reading →

This time, especially worth reading  and sharing articles: > “Finance is no longer a tool for getting money into productive businesses, but getting money out of them” — by J.W. Mason > Corporatization, marketization, and adjunctification of the university end up producing the … Continue reading →

This time, especially worth reading  – and sharing – articles: > How Apple and other multinationals avoid taxes and accountability: A network study of offshore finance — by Jan Fichtner > Financial capitalism remains deeply dependent on households, even as it obscures … Continue reading →

> Gerald Epstein on how the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing helped the banks and increased inequality (video) > The appeal of Fascism lays in a promise to protect people in times of excessive and unrestrained Capitalism — by Sheri Berman > Super-citizens: how the … Continue reading →

> Wolfgang Streeck: “Neoliberalism arrived with globalization or else globalization arrived with neoliberalism; that is how the Great Regression began… Whoever puts a society under economic or moral pressure to the point of dissolution reaps resistance from its traditionalists.” > The rhetoric … Continue reading →

> Congratulations to Jens Beckert on being awarded Germany’s highest scientific award Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (€2.5 million in research funds) for his work in reinvigorating the social sciences with an interdisciplinary perspective, especially in the intersection of sociology and economics. … Continue reading →

This time, especially worth reading  – and sharing – articles: > Life at the Nowhere Office: The “dynamic” workplace has arisen at a time when professional work has become increasingly insecure — by Miya Tokumitsu and Joeri Mol  > Economics is a religion: … Continue reading →

This time, especially worth reading  – and sharing – articles: > Sharing, not “Sharing Economy”: For most of human history, there was no such thing as private property > “Money is not a social engine, but rather a malleable social product“, … Continue reading →

> Reducing our relations to calculations of cost and benefit, disciplined by competition and mediated by the manifold devices of economics, we run the risk of losing our humanity — by Philip Roscoe > Stuart Hall on Gramsci’s ‘hegemony’ and ‘regressive modernisation’ of … Continue reading →

This time — especially worth reading (and sharing) articles: > Conspicuous Consumption is over; Cultural Capital replaced it as a signifier of socio-economic status — by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett > Public Intellectuals vs. “Thought Leaders”: the former challenge the oligarchy, the latter flatter … Continue reading →