Category Archives: Funny

Discipline and Punish: The Challenge of Teaching

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Oleg Komlik

While I was preparing a syllabus for a new course, two entertaining sayings jumped to my mind. The first was made by the master — Michel Foucault. During one of his lectures at Victoria University in Toronto in 1982, he … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism. A critical reader.

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

got banned from the library for moving all the books on trickle down economics to the mythology section (@Nasharchy, May 11, 2017) *** Join Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Instagram / Tumblr / Reddit / Telegram

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Syntactic Structures: Noam Chomsky’s First Ever PowerPoint Presentation

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

Alternative headlines for this historic event: Understanding Power [Point] or Power [Point] Systems or Chomsky on Mis-Education 🙂 — courtesy of Open Culture  *** Join Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Instagram / Tumblr / Reddit / Telegram

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Economics as Religion

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

COME WORSHIP WITH US “A LESSON IN ECONOMICS” (Photo courtesy of  Jodi Beggs – Everglades, Florida, USA, 2013) I rest my case 😉  Or, at least, Max Weber could be assigned to teach it… 🙂   *** Join Economic Sociology and Political Economy … Continue reading →

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The Melodramatic Side of Political Economy

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

Miss Prism: “Cecily, you will read your Political Economy in my absence. The chapter on the fall of the Rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too sensational. Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side.” Cecily [Picks up books and throws … Continue reading →

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Robert Solow’s sarcastic economics

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

Robert Solow, one of the most honored and influential economist of the second half of the 20th century, has been involved throughout his career in a series of polemics with several neoliberal (and other) economists in academia and government. Along with substantial assertions and explanations, … Continue reading →

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Socially Liberal but Fiscally Conservative

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

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Market Sentiment and the Ingenuity of the Markets

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

In a brilliant sketch by John Bird and John Fortune, aired during The South Bank Show on 14 October 2007, these British satirists trace the very workings of financial markets and the outbreak of the subprime crisis. Tragicomedy at its best…! *** Join Economic Sociology … Continue reading →

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The Holiday Spectre

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

This guide to Finnish culture has a pretty revolutionary image of Santa Claus…  😉 Dear ES/PE community members throughout the world, Happy Holidays!! Positive, Enlightening, and Transforming New Year! Oleg Komlik *** Join Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Instagram / Tumblr

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Probably the best “Acknowledgments” ever (3)

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

Erving Goffman, a preeminent sociologist and one the most influential scholars of the post-war social science, was greatly impressed during his graduate studies by the works of the British social anthropologist A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. Two decades later, Goffman — known for his witty … Continue reading →

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Economics to Sociology Phrasebook

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

In 1990, two economics PhD students at the University of Chicago, Jeffrey A. Smith and Kermit Daniel, got bored hanging out with their fellow tiresome economists and boldly decided to graze in new attractive fields. Sensibly skipping over political scientists and anthropologists, Smith and Daniel … Continue reading →

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Academic conferences — a true story ;-)

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

😉 See more memories of these unique intellectual fetes here and here 🙂   *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr

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A Demonstration of the Causal Power of Absences

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

Professor of philosophy Tyron Goldschmidt recently published a compelling paper “A Demonstration of the Causal Power of Absences“. Take a look and mull over: 🙂 *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community via Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Tumblr  

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Economics of Simplism, or why some countries are rich and others poor

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

“The use of knowledge by one producer does not prevent its use by others. Thus there is no inherent reason that producers in poor countries cannot use the same knowledge as producers in rich countries. If the relevant knowledge is publicly available, poor countries … Continue reading →

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Probably the best “Acknowledgments” ever (2)

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

That’s real and so truthful 🙂 and the fact that this “Acknowledgments” written by Talcott Parsons‘ grandson –  Jotham Parsons, makes this even more amusing… “This enumeration of my indebtedness, together with much else that I have doubtless omitted, is more … Continue reading →

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