BITS & BRIEFS: Economics and nature // Fair taxation // Land-backed currency // Post-growth economy // Life and death in India
BITS & BRIEFS: Habermas, capitalism and democracy // British class system // Neoliberalism and Digital Humanities // Food Industrial Complex // Promoting knowledge or special interests
Theodor Adorno on the division between economics and sociology
Great academic opportunities: 11 calls for papers, 5 postdocs, 5 PhD fellowships, 5 summer schools, and 3 job openings
BITS & BRIEFS: Pressures of employability // Debt in academic life // Homo Economicus is a man // Funding religion // Racial inequality
Economics of Simplism, or why some countries are rich and others poor
C. Wright Mills on the Personality Market
BITS & BRIEFS: In defense of hierarchy // Piketty’s new findings // Turning point in think tanks’ history // When corporations led to equality // Marginalization of racial (in)justice
Cross-Class Encounters, Social Capital and Moral Judgments at an Elite College
Great academic opportunities: 10 calls for papers, 6 summer schools, 4 postdoc positions, 3 PhD fellowships, 2 job openings, and a research grant
Joan Robinson: Solutions offered by economists are no less delusory than those of the theologians
BITS & BRIEFS: Labor in the Global Economy // Invention of consumers // Money costs more for poor // Business of travel and immigration // Slavery fueled capitalism
David Ricardo: What is the Key Problem in Political Economy?
What happens when we do not defend academic freedom
BITS & BRIEFS: Policies and perceived job security // Rubinstein, Rodrik and sociology of economics // Keynes’ oddest work // What have we learned after the crisis?
Great academic opportunities: 12 calls for papers, 9 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 2 jobs, and 2 PhD fellowships
How 19th century finance and housing associations shaped 20th century housing regimes in Germany and the United States
Framing Value of Things and Making Things Valuable
