Category: Books
Joan Robinson: Economics has always been partly a vehicle for the ruling ideology
Anti-austerity Syriza wins Greece election in the shadow of the crisis; but the Greek crisis is not just about Greece
The incredible collapse of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: corporatism, neoliberalism and globalization run amok
What is Historical Sociology? Understanding the origins of the current social world and the consequences of its transformations
Religion, “free trade” and faithful globalization: producing a sacred vision of the economy
Latin American capitalism: multinational corporations, business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets
What is money? Can we grasp the current state of the economy as a crisis of money itself?
The original email that started Occupy Wall Street
The Best Book in Economic Sociology and Political Economy for 2014: ‘The Power of Market Fundamentalism’ by Block and Somers
Putting a human face on statistics: unemployed women in the public workforce system
How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionism gave rise to ideals of human rights?
In economic policymaking ideas matter. But how and whose? Campbell and Pedersen have insightful answers
Neoliberalism in the Global South: the shift in development strategies
“The New European Left: A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?” analyzes the development and current state of the left parties and movements in Europe
How did the East India Company become the most powerful business in history?
18 focused interpretative digests of each chapter from Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”
Racism is more than individual prejudice. It’s about power, capitalism and class struggle
The Value of Nothing and Market Society
