Tag: academia
The whole human knowledge is within your reach! The only two books you ever have to read :-)
What is academic freedom?
Who is an economist? Here is Keynes’ answer
International Political Economy scholars miss THE question of the 21st century: the rise of a global labor class living in poverty
Economists are self-confident and regularly wrong, admits Columbia economics professor
Theodor Adorno on philosophy, academia, and market
Inspiring Victory of Grassroots Activism: Chile to Have Free Higher Education
Science is at your feet: Political Science and Sociology’s Most Cited Papers from Each Decade since the 1950s
Zygmunt Bauman: “Sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity.”
Overly honest reference: “Should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?” :-)
On economists, sociologists, and evil – an anecdote and an insight from Paul Krugman
How to theorize a research? Richard Swedberg’s “The Art of Social Theory” is a unique book about the craft of theorizing
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education: the modes of material and symbolic violence undermine public pedagogy and democracy
Mark Granovetter didn’t win (yet) the Nobel Prize. Here is his rejection letter, from 1969
Thomas Piketty: “There is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences, economic processes involved social control.”
Futures and ethnographies of neoliberalism
“Economics graduate programs may be turning out a generation with too many idiot savants skilled in technique but innocent of real economic issues.”
