Tag Archives: globalization

The 2019 SASE’s Alice Amsden Book Award goes to ‘The Specter of Global China’ by Ching Kwan Lee

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

The winner of the inaugural Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics is The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa, by Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Awards, Books | Tagged Africa, China, development, ethnography, globalization, investment, labor, politics, varieties of capitalism | Leave a comment

Is the United States the Champion of Global Finance or its Victim? A New Look at the Fed’s Low-inflation Policy

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

By Arie Krampf* My article “Monetary Power Reconsidered: The Struggle between the Bundesbank and the Fed over Monetary Leadership”, recently published in International Studies Quarterly, contributes to the burgeoning literature that challenges the US-hegemony hypothesis in the global financial sub-order. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Community members posts, Papers | Tagged Bundesbank, central banking, Fed, Germany, globalization, inflation, monetary policy, neoliberalism, power, United States | 7 Comments

Giddens: We are suffering from ‘cosmopolitan overload’ and a huge task lies before us – to create responsible capitalism

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

by Labinot Kunushevci* From the editor: The following interview with a distinguished British sociologist and political thinker Lord Anthony Giddens is interesting from various perspectives. The interview is part of the forthcoming book by Labinot Kunushevci featuring his conversations with renowned social scientists. The emphases … Continue reading →

Posted in Community members posts | Tagged economics, European Union, globalization, media, modernity, politics, risk society | 2 Comments

China is getting on wheels: varieties of development, car market reform and globalization

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

by Qiushi Feng* China is getting on wheels. Over the past three decades, with unparalleled speed, China has emerged as the world’s largest producer and consumer of passenger cars. Such a rapid growth is accompanied by profound changes of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Community members posts | Tagged China, development, globalization, ideas, institutions, markets, varieties of capitalism | Leave a comment

Global Political Economy and Its Discontents: Power, Politics and Investment Treaties in Developing Countries

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Oleg Komlik

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

Ethnographies of austerity

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Oleg Komlik

Austerity is not about numbers, economic data or amorphous macro-scale policies; Austerity is about people. Middle and working-class people, they are the ones who bear the brunt of oppressive neoliberalism and carry the depressing burdens of austerity in their everyday life: increasing unemployment, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged austerity, ‪culture, class, debt, ethnography, globalization, neoliberalism, policy, state | 2 Comments

Free trade politics, the power of ideas and political economy of European integration

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

“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

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-Middle Classes in Europe

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

A new interesting book Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-middle Classes in Europe explores and reveals the role of urban upper-middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European post-national societies. The findings of this research may surprise and intrigue. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged Europe, globalization, glocalization, Middle class, urban sociology | Leave a comment

The incredible collapse of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: corporatism, neoliberalism and globalization run amok

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US and European economies. Not long ago, however, Ireland was … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged banking system, comparative political economy, debt, Economic Sociology, embeddedness, financial crisis, financialization, fiscal sociology, globalization, Ireland, neoliberalism, Political economy, politics, varieties of capitalism | 1 Comment

You, George Soros and Zizek’s “Cultural Capitalism”: We all BUY our redemption from being only consumerists

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

In this 10 minute discerning and animated talk, the audio in which is complemented by a visually stunning cartoon, a philosopher Slavoj Zizek discusses how ethics and charity have been co-opted by capitalism, and why this is problematic and amoral. … Continue reading →

Posted in Video | Tagged capitalism, consumerism, consumption, ethics, globalization, neoliberalism, Oscar Wilde, philanthropy | Leave a comment

International Political Economy scholars miss THE question of the 21st century: the rise of a global labor class living in poverty

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

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

Ulrich Beck has died. His powerful concept of ‘Risk Society’ is relevant as never before

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

Renowned sociologist and social thinker Ulrich Beck has died. Ulrich Beck (Munich University and LSE) has become one of the world’s most famous intellectuals and most quoted social scientists in recent decades. Beck’s book Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1986/1992) is … Continue reading →

Posted in Oleg Komlik | Tagged class, environment, globalization, modernity, risk society, social sciences, sociology of risk, Ulrich Beck | 2 Comments

Tax avoidance as “tax planning”: global accounting firms on the make

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

About 21 trillion dollars hoarded by wealthy elites in secretive offshore jurisdictions to avoid taxes in their home countries. The offshore hoard is protected by a highly-paid, industrious bevy of professional enablers in the private banking, legal, accounting, and investment … Continue reading →

Posted in Papers | Tagged accounting, corruption, fiscal sociology, globalization, institutional logics, institutions, money laundering, offshore, tax avoidance, taxation | 1 Comment

In economic policymaking ideas matter. But how and whose? Campbell and Pedersen have insightful answers

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

John Maynard Keynes has famously said: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood.” In politics, policymaking and in the economy, ideas matter indeed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged comparative political economy, Denmark, diffusion, Economic Sociology, France, Germany, globalization, ideas, institutional change, institutions, national context, neoliberalism, policy, Political economy, politics, translation, United States | Leave a comment

Neoliberalism in the Global South: the shift in development strategies

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Despite the fact that the first substantially neoliberal regime was actually in the far South, the civil-military dictatorship in Chile, neoliberalism is generally attributed to western and developed countries. “Where in the world does Neoliberalism come from? The market agenda … Continue reading →