Tag: economic history
Law and Labor in the American Political Economy
Fiscal Embeddedness: Tax Policy as an Institutional Tool of State-building
Money is a mode of governance in a material world of capitalism
Who is an economist? Here is Keynes’ answer
History of Profit in the US: Corporations, Accounting and Capital
How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionism gave rise to ideals of human rights?
How did the East India Company become the most powerful business in history?
18 focused interpretative digests of each chapter from Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”
Corporate central planning and American industrialization
The history of money and its “divine” metamorphosis in the 20th century
Economics of War — Economy and War
Removing social support is necessary to compel the poor to work — what’s the origin of this erroneous political idea?
Thomas Piketty: “There is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences, economic processes involved social control.”
Between slavery and capitalism: how former slaves and slaveholders constructed a new labor market after the Civil War
“Economics graduate programs may be turning out a generation with too many idiot savants skilled in technique but innocent of real economic issues.”
Fascinating labor history: during September 1911 dozens children’s strikes were held across the UK and Ireland
The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique — a must-read for every economic sociologist and political economist
Why are banking systems unstable in some countries–but not in others? Since 1840, the US had 12 crises; Canada had none.
