Category: Books
Does Capitalism Have a Future? Wallerstein, Collins, Calhoun and Mann discuss whether the capitalist system can survive
Karl Polanyi: “The market mechanism moreover created the delusion of economic determinism as a general law for all human society.. “
Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Postcommunist Countries and demolishing myths about markets, money and globalization
“Governance across Borders: Transnational Fields and Transversal Themes”
Free Press?.. or “Free Market”?
The Future of Good Jobs and Labor Unions in the Service Economy
Varieties of Liberalization: Politics of Social Solidarity and Institutional Changes in Labor Market
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
