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…
“The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics” by Gabriel Abend brings a novel conceptual depth to the important field of the sociology of morality
“Classification Situations: Life-chances in the Neoliberal Era” proposes to revisit class analysis through the prism of techno-social changes represented by the advent of market devices
Scots, Save Finance Capitalism!
Erich Fromm: Why have we subordinate the economic machine?
“The Supranational Corporation: Beyond the Multinationals” shows how corporations flaunt laws and act as controlling powers beyond the legal national constraints
