Category: Books
Human Need vs. Capitalist Greed: a Gastronomic Rebuttal of Mainstream Economics
Forms of Capital and Moral Legitimation of Capitalism
The Future of Work
B&B: Laissez-faire & monetary technophilia // Psychoanalysis as a capitalist drug // Sociology and economics // Hobsbawm on May Day // Big Tech uses the Covid-19 crisis // Artists’ strikes
Rest in Power, David Graeber – the Activist-scholar who Lived the Coupling of Theory and Praxis
We Make our Careers in Networks
The Return of the State
Democracy vs. Irony, Tragedy and Pathos
B&B: Piketty – Covid-19 is an opportunity // Gendered lens on Covid-19 // Economic histories of pandemics // Pharma and the shareholder value // Network, not skills // Nature’s economics
American Sociology’s Emergence and Separation from Political Economy
The Long Divorce Between the Economy and Financial Markets
What is Institutional Economics?
B&B: Economists’ blindness to racism // We are all fast-food workers // For abolition of work // Arms purchase // Tests for profit // The financialized imagination // Gendered economics
Bruno Latour on Uncertainty and Knowledge
The Great Transformation — 75 Years Later
B&B: Hannah Arendt // Research for profit // Neoliberalism and family values // Lessons of 1968 // Sociology of consumption // Index funds and inequality // Alienation and work
The Social Structure of Prices
B&B: Amartya Sen // Tulipmania // Sadie Alexander // Surveillance and Authoritarianism // The Mafia and weak state // New Working Class // ‘Smart’ city serves business
