Category: Books
Zygmunt Bauman: “Sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity.”
Corporate central planning and American industrialization
Is ‘regulatory capture’ as powerful and unpreventable as the informed consensus suggests?
The history of money and its “divine” metamorphosis in the 20th century
Removing social support is necessary to compel the poor to work — what’s the origin of this erroneous political idea?
How to theorize a research? Richard Swedberg’s “The Art of Social Theory” is a unique book about the craft of theorizing
Why after three decades of economic reforms in Latin America labor laws remained rigidly protective and remarkably diverse?
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education: the modes of material and symbolic violence undermine public pedagogy and democracy
Noam Chomsky on neoliberal semantics: “working class” vs. “middle class”
Political economy of Ebola — one picture and two articles
Gendering the Recession: Media, Culture and the Reemergence of Gender Tropes
Mark Granovetter didn’t win (yet) the Nobel Prize. Here is his rejection letter, from 1969
Mark Twain’s observation on stock market and Randy Martin’s on finance
Thomas Piketty: “There is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences, economic processes involved social control.”
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!
Between slavery and capitalism: how former slaves and slaveholders constructed a new labor market after the Civil War
“I don’t believe in Global Warming”.. Yee…
“The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics” by Gabriel Abend brings a novel conceptual depth to the important field of the sociology of morality
