
Category: Books


Sociological Perspectives on Banking Crises

B&B: Free Market idea | New industrial state | UN Economic Order | Inequality industry | Humanities’ economics | Feminism & anti-work | Capitalism erodes imagination

The Rise of the Capital-state and Neo-nationalism: a Neo-Polanyian Perspective

Charles Darwin on the atrocity of slavery and the origin of inequality

State Matters: The Political Economy of Vocational Training and Employment

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

Economics is the religion of our secular scientific civilization

The Construction of the Magical World of Santa — Performing a Myth to Make a Market

Where Do Unicorns Come From? Reflexive Expectations in Innovation Financing

Academic Economics: Irrelevant Theories and Misunderstanding of a Real Economic System

Latour’s Theses on Capitalism and Economics

The Political Economy of a Stateless Nation: Polanyi Meets Gramsci

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

Karl Polanyi and the Paradoxes of the Double Movement

Max Weber on Socialism

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

Foucault on the Chain of Ideas as the Tool of Domination

B&B: Myth of Cashless Society | Economists’ ideology | Schumpeter on imperialism | Humans as data | Ideas, law and markets | Marxism without Progress | Cryptocurrencies

Top 10 Most-read Economic Sociology and Political Economy Posts of 2021

History is not the Past

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

Emile Durkheim: The Intellectual Elite and Democracy

Building a Predistributive Democracy on the Ruins of Market Justice
