Probably the best “Acknowledgments” ever (3)
The Pricing of Progress and the Origins of GDP
Giddens: We are suffering from ‘cosmopolitan overload’ and a huge task lies before us – to create responsible capitalism
BITS & BRIEFS: Sharing, not “Sharing Economy” // Zelizer on Money // Social movements create unionization // Schumpeter’s “Economics of Socialism” syllabus // Deaths of Despair rise
The Hardship of Accounting
Beyond the Left Turn: The Second Wave of Incorporation of the Popular Sectors in Latin America
Human Capital
BITS & BRIEFS: Economics is the biggest problem // Gramsci’s hegemony and the Left // Neoliberalism and Higher Education // Incarceration and children’s achievement gap // Trading votes
Great academic opportunities: 24 calls for papers, 12 job openings, 2 visiting and postdoc positions, a grant, PhD scholarship, and essay competition
China is getting on wheels: varieties of development, car market reform and globalization
BITS & BRIEFS: Conspicuous consumption is over // Public Intellectuals vs. Thought Leaders // Killing neoliberalism // Frankfurt School // School vouchers’ effects
Neil Smelser: “Economic sociology, intellectually, is one of the strongest fields in sociology”
The Art of Central Banking (3) — No working theory of inflation and economists’ instinctual attachment to concepts
The economy derives its meaning only from its uneconomic purpose
Zygmunt Bauman on Uncertainty
BITS & BRIEFS: The Pro-market // From healthcare to a profit gear // Financialization against the Climate // History of constructing equality // Gentrification and neoliberalism
Great academic opportunities: 12 calls for papers, 11 jobs, 2 workshops, 2 prizes, a research grant
The Washington Consensus: Sociology of Economics and History of Ideas
