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Erik Olin Wright has contributed to making utopias real
“Gramsci once described the struggle for social justice as requiring ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.’ I believe in the world today we need an optimism of the intellect as well: an optimism grounded in our understanding of … Continue reading
Top 10 Most-read Economic Sociology and Political Economy Posts of 2018
As 2018 (already) comes to an end, I rounded up the top 10 most-read posts of the year on the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community blog. Six of these interesting, enlightening and thought-provoking posts were published in 2018 and the rest in previous … Continue reading
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Galbraith vs. Friedman — “The emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform, the one on which all else depends”
John Kenneth Galbraith was one of the most famous and influential American economists and public intellectual of the post-WWII era. Galbraith, who leaned toward post-Keynesian economics embracing an institutionalist perspective, was a very prolific writer and his books (The Great … Continue reading
R.I.P. James March — “Success”
James G. March — a distinguished social scientist, great master of organisational and institutional theory, inspiring and towering intellectual, wonderful man, has passed away. His voluminous, cross-generational, multi-topical, interdisciplinary, exceptionally influential scholarship does not need presentation — which is certainly the best … Continue reading
Economics as Religion
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
The Melodramatic Side of Political Economy
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
C. Wright Mills on Knowledge, Power, and the Moral Duty of the Intellectual
An eminent and brilliant sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was deeply concerned with the responsibilities of social scientists in the post-World War II (American) society. Therefore he advocated for engagement of intellectuals in public life in contrast to merely conducting distant observations. … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, C. Wright Mills, Public Intellectuals, public sociology
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Probably the best “Acknowledgments” ever (4)
“This work has been carried out despite the economical difficulties of the authors’ country. The authors want to overall remark the clear contribution of the Spanish Government in destroying the R&D horizon of Spain and the future of a … Continue reading
Robert Solow’s sarcastic economics
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 economists in academia and government. Along with substantial assertions and explanations, Solow often … Continue reading
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Economic Sociology, Homo Economicus, and Performativity of Economics
It is never too late, nor too early, to reread and contemplate a good theory. For example, to mull over Michel Callon’s programmatic statement about the performativity of economics, presented two decades ago in the introduction to The Laws of the Markets: … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Sociology, economics, markets, performativity
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