Tag: academia
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
“Falsified statistics”, membership celebration, thanks and an important reminder
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.”
