Category: Books
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
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
