Category: Books
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
The 2019 SASE’s Alice Amsden Book Award goes to ‘The Specter of Global China’ by Ching Kwan Lee
Manufacturing Personal Happiness
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
