‘Performativity thesis’: Accounting’s mediating role in bringing theoretical statements from economics into life
Jerry Seinfeld on consumerism, advertising and culture of consumption :-)
Political economy of Ebola — one picture and two articles
Gendering the Recession: Media, Culture and the Reemergence of Gender Tropes
Mark Granovetter didn’t win (yet) the Nobel Prize. Here is his rejection letter, from 1969
Mark Twain’s observation on stock market and Randy Martin’s on finance
Thomas Piketty: “There is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences, economic processes involved social control.”
Why have historians ceded authority to economists as reliable and competent policy advisors?
Futures and ethnographies of neoliberalism
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!
Between slavery and capitalism: how former slaves and slaveholders constructed a new labor market after the Civil War
Why the Federal Reserve Failed to See the 2008 Financial Crisis: The Role of “Macroeconomics” as a Sensemaking and Cultural Frame
Democratic pressure lead to abolition of university tuition fee in Germany. This neoliberal experiment contributed to increasing educational and income inequality
“Economics graduate programs may be turning out a generation with too many idiot savants skilled in technique but innocent of real economic issues.”
Georg Simmel — The Bridge and the Door
What crisis? Everything must (not) change so that the IMF can remain the same.
“I don’t believe in Global Warming”.. Yee…
