Follow ES/PE on Facebook
Follow ES/PE on Twitter
My Tweets-
Follow ES/PE on Instagram
Tags
- academia
- accounting
- austerity
- banking
- banking system
- capital
- capitalism
- central banking
- China
- class
- commercialization
- comparative political economy
- consumerism
- consumption
- corporations
- COVID-19
- 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 system
- financial markets
- fiscal sociology
- France
- gender
- Germany
- global governance
- globalization
- global political economy
- Greece
- growth
- higher education
- history of economic thought
- ideas
- inequality
- institutional change
- institutions
- interest groups
- investment
- Karl Marx
- Karl Polanyi
- knowledge
- labor
- Latin America
- law
- marketization
- markets
- Marxism
- media
- Middle class
- money
- morality
- 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
- sociology of knowledge
- state
- taxation
- trade
- Unions
- United Kingdom
- United States
- valuation
- varieties of capitalism
- wealth
- welfare
- work
- culture
Top Posts & Pages
- Forms of Capital and Moral Legitimation of Capitalism
- Great academic opportunities: 7 calls for papers, 6 jobs, 4 postdocs, 3 PhD fellowships, 3 awards, a grant
- The Future of Work
- Adam Smith: "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production."
- Remember the Golden Rule! Whoever has the gold, makes the rules!
- We Make our Careers in Networks
- Rest in Power, David Graeber - the Activist-scholar who Lived the Coupling of Theory and Praxis
- Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew... Ye are many — they are few
- Who is an economist? Here is Keynes' answer
- If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money
Categories
Archives
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- March 2019
- 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: money
Money is a mode of governance in a material world of capitalism
Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange – a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged capitalism, credit, debt, economic history, monetary system, money, state, United Kingdom
1 Comment
What is money? Can we grasp the current state of the economy as a crisis of money itself?
The latest crisis has incited substantial conversation about debt, banking, financialization, and the commodification of everyday life. All these issues are inherently related to money. But what exactly is money? Where does it come from? Who does make our money … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged banking, capitalism, credit, crisis, debt, Economic Sociology, economics, money, valuation
2 Comments
“Debt: Ethics, the Environment and the Economy”: the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and perspectives
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. This timely and broad volume, adited by Peter Y. Paik and Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged capitalism, debt, Economic Sociology, environment, ethics, finance, money
Leave a comment
The history of money and its “divine” metamorphosis in the 20th century
A noted cultural anthropologist Professor Jack Weatherford observed in his fascinating The History of Money: “In the 20th century, we saw money turn rapidly from paper into plastic and then into mere electronic blips generated in computers, transferred over telephone … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged banking, credit, economic anthropology, economic history, finance, money, policy
4 Comments
“Crisis, Value & Hope: Rethinking the Economy” — Current Anthropology special issue
“Crisis, value, and hope are three concepts whose intersection and mutual constitution open the door for a rethinking of the nature of economic life away from abstract models divorced from the everyday realities of ordinary people, the inadequacies of which … Continue reading
Posted in Papers
Tagged anthropology, credit, crisis, debt, financialization, money, valuation
Leave a comment
Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Postcommunist Countries and demolishing myths about markets, money and globalization
In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card? How do markets convince people to use cards, make their transactions visible to authorities, assume the potential risk of fraud, and … Continue reading
The Bank of England’s “Money Creation in the Modern Economy” erodes the mainstream economics and finance theory
Money creation in practice differs from some popular misconceptions — banks do not act simply as intermediaries, lending out deposits that savers place with them, and nor do they ‘multiply up’ central bank money to create new loans and deposits. … Continue reading
Posted in Papers
Tagged banking system, central banking, credit, economics, monetary system, money
Leave a comment
What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire
What in everyday life is an obvious truth, namely, that in some sense or another, people want money— is basically unthinkable in economic terms. Herein lies the starting point for the main argument of What Money Wants: An Economy of … Continue reading
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World
“The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” is Harvard professor Niall Ferguson’s an (4 hours) television documentary, based on his famous book. Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from … Continue reading
DEBT: The First 5,000 Years
Recently, we got used to see David Graeber on TV, as one of the unofficial leaders of the Occupy movement; so what could be a better occasion to feature his unique book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Graeber, LSE professor … Continue reading
Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
Over the past decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life, turning a fascinating research field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. Among the few who have played the key role in this development was Viviana Zelizer, … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged capitalism, consumption, Culture, Economic Sociology, insurance, money
Leave a comment
