Category: Books
Max Weber on Socialism
B&B: Free time before capitalism | Kolko, a heretic historian | Wellness-industrial complex | Entrepreneurial state | Productivity growth vs. wage stagnation |Lack of black economists
Foucault on the Chain of Ideas as the Tool of Domination
B&B: Myth of Cashless Society | Economists’ ideology | Schumpeter on imperialism | Humans as data | Ideas, law and markets | Marxism without Progress | Cryptocurrencies
Top 10 Most-read Economic Sociology and Political Economy Posts of 2021
History is not the Past
B&B: Commodification of higher education | Against human capital | Shareholder Value kills innovation | History of consumer credit | Crowdfunding is about community | Austerity leads to polarisation
Emile Durkheim: The Intellectual Elite and Democracy
Building a Predistributive Democracy on the Ruins of Market Justice
The New Social and Impact Economy: A Conceptual Framework and a Comparative Perspective
B&B: Critique of wellness | Humans as robots | Women and Work | Economy runs on racism | Capitalism and sexual dysfunction |Corporations’ civil rights |Inequality hurts longevity
Karl Marx on the Weight of History
B&B: History of being a liberal // Foucault’s power // Sen and Deaton talk // Accounting giants // Labor against its interests // Central banks think historically // Cities vs Multinationals
B&B: Markets and the Decline of Democracy // Materiality of Finance // Myth of Agricultural Revolution // Data and the Future of Work // Books on Globalization // Academic Managerialism
Thorstein Veblen on Business Interests in Education and Media
How Capitalism Survives: Social Theory and Structural Change
The Best Book in Economic Sociology and Political Economy for 2020: ‘American Bonds’ by Sarah Quinn
B&B: Tax flight myth // Covid-19 and a crisis of neoliberalism // Models, morals and Wall Street // Caste systems persist // Smart City or corporate siege // New Labour’s unions reform
