Category: Books
Congratulations to David Levi-Faur for receiving the Award for Regulatory Studies Development, by the European Consortium for Political Research Group on Regulatory Governance
Financialization, New Investment Funds, and Labour: An International Comparison
An Angry Person’s Guide to Finance’ explains in simple terms the defining features of the post-1970s financial system
The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique — a must-read for every economic sociologist and political economist
John Urry on social and political dangers of offshoring
Reviews of 6 interesting books on housing, urban policy, privatisation of cities and homelessness
What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire
The development and transformation of clusters and industrial sectors in East and Southeast Asia
“Politics in the Age of Austerity” analyzes the dilemmas governments face as they seek to reconcile the conflicting demands of voters and ‘the markets’
“Bank Behaviour and Resilience: the Effect of Structures, Institutions and Agents” challenges conventional thinking about the varieties of capitalism
Numbers Rule the World: The Underpinning Agendas in the Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics
Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America
Art and Money. Artists no longer simply create art, they make markets
Why are banking systems unstable in some countries–but not in others? Since 1840, the US had 12 crises; Canada had none.
From Political Economy to Economics: the Desocialisation and Dehistoricisation of the Dismal Science
Epinets: a new way of thinking about social networks
“Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA” tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Greek crisis is not just about Greece. “Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction” opens a new point of view on the global and the European crisis
