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As 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/In 1951 John Kenneth Galbraith wrote Milton Friedman to thank him for giving a lecture at #Harvard #economics department. This very short letter is not only a typical example for #Galbraith’s eloquence and sardonic phrasing, but underlines his ability to combine conceptual open-mindedness with a sincere standpoint of his own. Read, and more: https://economicsociology.org/2018/11/23/galbraith-vs-friedman-the-emancipation-of-belief-is-the-most-formidable-of-the-tasks-of-reform-the-one-on-which-all-else-depends/Tags
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Folk economics, economic sociology, and Trump’s campaign
“When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesn’t exist, folks. They beat us all the … Continue reading
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On the wandering and exilic being of knowledge seeker
An eminent Saxon scholastic theologian Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096 – 1141) noted in his monumental encyclopedic treatise Didascalion: “All the world is a foreign soil to those who philosophize… It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, … Continue reading
Orthodoxy
“The principal enemy is orthodoxy: to use the same recipe, administer the same therapy, to resolve the most various types of problems; never to admit complexity and try to reduce it as much as possible, while ignoring that things are … Continue reading
Economic fortune telling: forecasting to profit
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable”, famously remarked John Kenneth Galbraith. “Professional” fortune tellers and clairvoyant have accompanied mankind, receiving great respect, throughout the ages. Therefore, one can say, it was only a matter … Continue reading
Economic culture in the public sphere: practice, knowledge and discourse
“Economic Culture in the Public Sphere” is the topic of the European Journal of Sociology special issue, edited by Nina Bandelj, Lyn Spillman & Frederick F. Wherry. This very interesting collection of articles deals with the important question of how public understandings … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture, diffusion, Economic Sociology, economics, ideas, institutional change, institutions, knowledge, policy
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When public good exchanged to private gain: neoliberalism, higher education and social inequality
Public higher education has a long history, and with its growth it is associated with the extension of a social right to education from secondary schooling to university studies. Following the rise in student numbers since the 1970s, the aspiration … Continue reading
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Why and when do governments appoint economists and economics-trained politicians?
Should policymakers – politicians and high-level state officials – be experts in their fields? Does professional competence effect public policies at all? And does it prove itself? These, undoubtedly, important issues to be discussed and researched. But in order to … Continue reading
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” (T. S. Eliot, The Rock, 1934)
Gregory Mankiw: “Economic science is still a primitive body of knowledge.”
From the horse’s mouth: Professor Gregory Mankiw (Chair of Economics Department, Harvard University) on economics: “The economy is complex, and economic science is still a primitive body of knowledge.” From his op-ed in New York Times, March 22, 2014 *** Join the … Continue reading
The whole human knowledge is within your reach! The only two books you ever have to read :-)
What they do, and what they do not, teach you at Harvard Business School. (By the way, who are THEY?…) *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community through Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Reddit / Tumblr
