Category: Books
“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
Debt and Indebtedness: Ethics, the Environment and the Economy
A documentary “Rise Like Lions- Occupy Wall Street and the Seeds of Revolution” tells the story of the movement in its own words
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
