Follow ES/PE on Facebook
Follow ES/PE on Twitter
My Tweets-
Follow ES/PE on Instagram
Erik Olin Wright, an eminent #sociologist and one of the great public intellectuals of our time, has died at 72. Wright, a brilliant scholar and Marxist thinker, has not just taught us so much about #class, exploitation and power, he has also envisioned way to democratic and egalitarian alternatives to #capitalism. Erik Olin Wright was passionately and equally earnest about intellectual rigour and political relevance. Read his final words: https://economicsociology.org/2019/01/23/erik-olin-wright-has-contributed-to-making-utopias-real/ #sociology #marxism #politicaleconomyAs 2018 comes to an end, I rounded up the top 10 most-read posts of the year on the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community blog. You are welcome to (re)read and share them. I would like to use this opportunity and thank everyone for being here, liking and sharing - for making this community what it really is! Oleg Komlik https://economicsociology.org/2018/12/22/top-10-most-read-economic-sociology-and-political-economy-posts-of-2018/Tags
- academia
- accounting
- austerity
- banking
- banking system
- capital
- capitalism
- central banking
- China
- class
- commercialization
- comparative political economy
- consumerism
- consumption
- corporations
- credit
- crisis
- Culture
- debt
- democracy
- development
- diffusion
- economic history
- economics
- Economic Sociology
- education
- elite
- embeddedness
- environment
- ethics
- ethnography
- Europe
- European Union
- finance
- financial crisis
- financialization
- financial liberalization
- financial system
- financial markets
- fiscal sociology
- France
- funny
- gender
- Germany
- global governance
- globalization
- global political economy
- Greece
- growth
- higher education
- ideas
- inequality
- institutional change
- institutions
- interest groups
- Karl Marx
- Karl Polanyi
- knowledge
- labor
- Latin America
- law
- market evolution
- marketization
- markets
- Marxism
- media
- Middle class
- money
- neoliberalism
- networks
- policy
- Political economy
- politics
- poverty
- power
- privatization
- public sociology
- race
- regulation
- socialism
- social movements
- social networks
- social sciences
- social studies of finance
- sociology
- Sociology of economics
- state
- taxation
- technology
- trade
- Unions
- United Kingdom
- United States
- valuation
- varieties of capitalism
- wealth
- welfare
- work
- market fundamentalism
- culture
-
Recent Posts
- Erik Olin Wright has contributed to making utopias real
- Top 10 Most-read Economic Sociology and Political Economy Posts of 2018
- Great academic opportunities: 13 calls for papers, 4 jobs, 2 postdocs, visiting grant, PhD stipend, summer school
- Galbraith vs. Friedman — “The emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform, the one on which all else depends”
- B&B: Tech companies love dogs not unions // How US conservative elite persists // Male-dominated central banks // India’s demonetisation // The making of Tourist Capitalism
Categories
Archives
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- September 2013
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
ES/PE on Social Media
Tag Archives: global political economy
The Burden of Nations: Debt and Compound Interest
The disappointing outcome of the G8 Okinawa summit regarding the initiative for debt relief for impoverished and indebted countries of the Global South, led President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo to proclaim in August 2000: “All that we had borrowed up to 1985 or … Continue reading
Global Political Economy and Its Discontents: Power, Politics and Investment Treaties in Developing Countries
There is a widely accepted opinion among a general public, policy makers and economists that investment treaties between the West and developing countries greatly benefit the latter. But is this view correct? Well, for sure the story is far more complex than it seems. An interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged global governance, global political economy, Global south, globalization, investment treaties, law, power
Leave a comment
Free trade politics, the power of ideas and political economy of European integration
“The bourgeoisie… has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged European Union, global political economy, globalization, ideas, institutions, neoliberalism, policy, politics, trade
Leave a comment
International Political Economy scholars miss THE question of the 21st century: the rise of a global labor class living in poverty
In the recent years, more and more International Political Economy (IPE) scholars are dissatisfied with the current state of this field of research and desire to identify the ‘Big Questions’ of the 21st century. In this (open access) article, Benjamin … Continue reading
Posted in Papers
Tagged academia, capital, capitalism, class, development, global political economy, globalization, labor, Marxism, social sciences
1 Comment
Eric Helleiner’s new book: “Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development & Making of the Postwar Order”
As Helleiner did in his excellent previous influential works, in this new book he presents in intellectually-engaging manner a thoughtful and bright analysis which is a must-read for economic sociologists and political economists interested in studying institutions, international political economy and power … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Bretton Woods, development, global political economy, Global south, ideas
Leave a comment
Minilateralism: How Trade Alliances, Soft Law and Financial Engineering are Redefining Economic Statecraft
This new book by Chris Brummer (Georgetown University) analizes the global political economy in the post-hegemonic era, while the Ukrainian crisis embodies such multifaceted and complex developments. The multilateral organizations that dominated the last half of the twentieth century no … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged global governance, global political economy, globalization, Post-Hegemonic Era, power, trade
Leave a comment
Congratulations to David Levi-Faur for receiving the Award for Regulatory Studies Development, by the European Consortium for Political Research Group on Regulatory Governance
David Levi-Faur (Hebrew University) is the first recipient of the Award for Regulatory Studies Development because of his successful efforts to create an academic regulatory governance community, as exemplified by his initiative to co-found the ECPR Standing Group on Regulation and … Continue reading
Austerity Politics and Policy in the EU and the Eurozone crisis
One of the key aims of “The Politics of Austerity and Public Policy Reform in the EU”, Political Studies Review symposium is to reconsider the theoretical tools available for understanding political and policy responses to the Eurozone crisis. Current EU developments and … Continue reading
Posted in Papers
Tagged austerity, European Union, global political economy, Greece, policy, politics, Spain
Leave a comment
Regulating International Finance and the Evolving Imbalance of Capitalisms since the 1970s
This paper puts the ongoing G20 process of improving the regulation of international finance into a historically informed perspective. To understand the driving forces behind and obstacles to international cooperation in governing finance, Thomas Kalinowski (Max Planck Institute for the … Continue reading
