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Pierre Bourdieu: Economism is a form of ethnocentrism
Economic Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu is very rich and brilliantly enlightening, as well as non-univocal, and theoretically and intellectually multifaceted. Reflecting on his great contribution to the field, which he preferred to call “Economic Anthropology”, his classic The Logic of Practice (1990; open … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Oleg Komlik
Tagged capitalism, Economic Sociology, economics, economism, Pierre Bourdieu
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Framing Value of Things and Making Things Valuable
My experiences at Asian floating markets have included constant conversations between me and merchants, and thereafter between me and myself, such as: “How much is it?” — “How much do you want to give me?”, he replies. “How much was … Continue reading
The Political Economy and Economic Sociology of Brexit
In the beginning, it is said, was Brexit. “Brexit is a revolution”, it is said from the right and by the left. Revolution, though, is a Janus-faced concept that “evokes dialectically linked oppositions: light and darkness; rupture and continuity; liberation and oppression; … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Economic Sociology, neoliberalism, Political economy
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Joseph Schumpeter’s definition of Economic Sociology
In his monumental History of Economic Analysis, Joseph Schumpeter identified four fundamental fields of economic analysis: economic history, statistics, economic theory and economic sociology. According to Schumpeter, a mastery in these four fields is “what distinguishes the ‘scientific’ economist from all the other … Continue reading
The early Karl Polanyi: Interpreting “Socialist Accounting”
We are all Polanyians now. Karl Polanyi is probably one of the most famous theorists among social scientists today. It is almost impossible not to come across Polanyi’s citations and references in a very wide range of researches over the last … Continue reading
Posted in Papers
Tagged accounting, Economic Sociology, economics, Karl Polanyi, socialism
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Disentangling Neoliberalism: the key concepts
Neoliberalism has become an omnipresent term. Due its increasing pervasiveness into academic, political and media discourses, some perceive neoliberalism as an omnipotent phenomenon that explains everything, while others see it as a vague buzzword that hardly means something. Surveying this blog, for example, under the tag … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged discourse, Economic Sociology, ideas, neoliberalism, Political economy
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Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy, materialism and political economy
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859) was a notable French political scientist and historian, best known for Democracy in America, a perceptive and groundbreaking analysis of the social, political and economic system of the United States. This four-volume book is brimming with … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, democracy, economic history, Economic Sociology, Political economy, United States, wealth
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Accounts: a Newsletter of the ASA Economic Sociology section
Accounts is the newsletter of the vibrant section of Economic Sociology at the American Sociological Association, published several times a year. I read it regularly – it always provides a comprehensive and interesting overview of what happens in the field of Economic Sociology (mainly … Continue reading
Markets, policy and sociology of economic immorality
In a highly influential book Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics, a distinguished philosopher Seyla Benhabib (Yale University) argued that: “Moral judgment is what we ‘always already’ exercise in virtue of being immersed in a network of human relationships … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Sociology, financial crisis, markets, morality, policy
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