Category: Books
RIP Immanuel Wallerstein — “This is the end; this is the beginning”
B&B: Best books in political economy // Raising elite // Missing from economics: women // Philanthropy’s interests // Living now in the pre-industrial age // Black businesses and the Civil Rights Movement
The Virtues of the Market: Wilhelm Röpke as a Cultural Economist
The Growth of Shadow Banking and State-Finance Relations
Probably the best “Acknowledgments” ever (5)
The 2019 Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology goes to ‘Starving the Beast’ by Monica Prasad
Neither Market Nor State?
B&B: Neoliberalism as creative destruction // Surveillance business // History of capitalism and counter-genealogy of race // Workplace is the hub of political power // GDP is irrelevant
Are Entrepreneurs Dangerous to the Market Economy more than Marxists?
The Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers
Economic Sociology, Homo Economicus, and Performativity of Economics
The IMF’s Reconstruction of Economic Orthodoxy since the Crash
Was Karl Polanyi wrong? Land, labor, and private authority in the global economy
Who is in Control of Markets: Humans or Financial Models?
Commercialization and the Far Right: Consuming and Constituting Extremism
Market Forecasting: A Sensitive Practice at the Heart of Neoliberal Capitalism
Marketcraft as the New Statecraft
A Critique of the Critique of Finance: Critics of neoliberal capitalism rarely recognize the productive power of speculation
