No Reality, Please. We’re Economists.
BITS & BRIEFS: Credit rating is about networks // Lottery in Babylon and Bitcoin // Maintainers run the economy // Automation leads to market volatility
Academic CV of Failures – a motivational lesson
Consensus in economics: when and why economists stopped discussing each other’s work
BITS & BRIEFS: Philanthrocapitalism // Glass ceiling persists // Graeber on feudalism disguised as capitalism // The correctional-industrial complex and slavery
Great academic opportunities: 6 calls for papers, 2 PhD fellowships and a summer school
BITS & BRIEFS: State as the entrepreneur // Money and valuation in prison // Divided working class in China // The richest man who ever lived
Neoliberalism vs. Democracy
BITS & BRIEFS: Identity and work // Corporate risk taking and accountability // Economists and discredited ideas // Labor and unionisation in India
Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy, materialism and political economy
Debt crisis and austerity in the Eurozone: social and political impacts
Accounts: a Newsletter of the ASA Economic Sociology section
BITS & BRIEFS: What is money? // Uberization of work and Shareholder Value // Credit and politics of inequality // R.I.P. John Urry
BITS & BRIEFS: Norway vs. the wealthy // Neoliberalism in the Global South // Slavery made Capitalism // Mark Blyth & Yanis Varoufakis
Erich Fromm: Man is a cog in the vast economic machine
BITS & BRIEFS: Free trade and World War I // Zelizer’s The Social Meaning of Money // Why Anti-Tax is Pro-Family // Social Class and consumption in Japan
9 calls for papers, 3 PhD studentships, 2 postdoc fellowships and 1 training workshop
