
Tag: democracy


Democracy vs. Irony, Tragedy and Pathos

Democratizing Finance: Reducing Inequalities of Income, Wealth and Power

Central Banks, Technocratic Power, and the Fear of Democracy

Back to the Future: Authoritarian Neoliberal Regime versus Democratic Social State

Neoliberalism vs. Democracy

Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy, materialism and political economy

Socrates on Oligarchy and Democracy

Thomas Piketty: “Take a serious interest in money… Those who have a lot of it never fail to defend their interests.”

Democracy matters: the extension of the franchise and its impact on financial systems

Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew… Ye are many — they are few

Herbert Marcuse: Power of Repressive Tolerance

The “responsible”, the “irresponsible” and the Political Economy of the Sovereign Debt Crisis

From Socialism to Neoliberalism: the case of Central Eastern European countries

The original email that started Occupy Wall Street

The Value of Nothing and Market Society

Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education: the modes of material and symbolic violence undermine public pedagogy and democracy
South Africa’s political economy: labor, politics and unfinished liberation

John Urry on social and political dangers of offshoring

“Politics in the Age of Austerity” analyzes the dilemmas governments face as they seek to reconcile the conflicting demands of voters and ‘the markets’
“Modern Politics as a Trust Scheme and Its Relevance to Modern Banking” demonstrates that modern banking and politics are mirror images of each other
Name and Shame: Columbia University fired two Public Intellectuals because they hadn’t brought in enough grants
