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German New Economic Sociology and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
The new much-anticipated discussion paper by John Wilkinson (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro) provides a thoughtful and comprehensive survey of German new economic sociology with a special focus on the contributions of the Max Planck Institute for the Study … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Sociology, financialization, Germany, neoliberalism, Political economy
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The Melodramatic Side of Political Economy
Miss Prism: “Cecily, you will read your Political Economy in my absence. The chapter on the fall of the Rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too sensational. Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side.” Cecily [Picks up books and throws … Continue reading
Did Neoliberalism and Austerity Cause Brexit? Yes.
While the Brexit process is underway and UK politicians are tearing themselves apart over this overwhelmingly and multidimensionally complicated issue, an economics professor from Warwick University Thiemo Fetzer provides ample and comprehensive evidence that the austerity-induced withdrawal of the welfare state brought about by the Conservative-led … Continue reading
Posted in Papers
Tagged austerity, Economic Sociology, neoliberalism, policy, Political economy, politics, United Kingdom, welfare
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The IMF’s Reconstruction of Economic Orthodoxy since the Crash
by Ben Clift* Analysing how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) contributes to prevailing understandings of sound economic policy reveals how economic orthodoxy is historically contingent, and throws into relief the malleability of economic policy credibility. These indirect IMF attempts to … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, Eurozone crisis, financial crisis, fiscal policy, ideas, IMF, institutions, policy, Political economy
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Was Karl Polanyi wrong? Land, labor, and private authority in the global economy
by Tim Bartley* Karl Polanyi famously argued that land, labor, and money are “fictitious commodities.” They cannot be fully subjected to the dictates of the market without spurring backlashes that seek to re-embed them in society. It is easy to … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Economic Sociology, glocalization, Indonesia, institutions, Karl Polanyi, labor, land, norms, Political economy, regulation
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World Inequality Report 2018: Great Data, Bright Analysis, Perturbing Reality
The World Inequality Lab led by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Facundo Alvaredo and Lucas Chancel released today the first of its kind World Inequality Report 2018. The Report aims to become the comprehensive reference report on income and wealth inequality around … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Oleg Komlik
Tagged economic history, inequality, neoliberalism, policy, Political economy, wealth
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What is’t to us if taxes rise or fall? Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all
The 18th-century English poet and satirist Charles Churchill wrote the following witty and sharp words, jeering and criticizing the aristocracy and the establishment of his time. The cit, a common-councilman by place, Ten thousand mighty nothings in his face, By situation … Continue reading
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Tagged elite, Political economy, politics, social movements
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Theodor Adorno on the division between economics and sociology
In May-July 1968, Theodor W. Adorno, an eminent philosopher, sociologist and one of the founders of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, gave his last lecture series which were published in 2000 as Introduction to Sociology. In these accessible and lucid … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Oleg Komlik
Tagged academia, economics, Frankfurt school, Political economy, sociology
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David Ricardo: What is the Key Problem in Political Economy?
David Ricardo (1772 – 1823) was a prominent classical economist who gave systematized form to the rising discipline of ‘economics’, rightly termed then as ‘political economy’. The opening paragraph of his book On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) contributes to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Oleg Komlik
Tagged economics, Political economy, varieties of capitalism
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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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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
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Tagged discourse, Economic Sociology, ideas, neoliberalism, Political economy
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Princes of the Yen and the Japanese Shock Doctrine
“It is better for the Bank of Japan not to attract attention and remain as quit as the forest in a rural shrine.” – Hisato Ichimada, the 18th Governor of the Bank of Japan, 1946-1954 (Werner 2003: 70) “Thanks to this … Continue reading
Genealogy of Capitalism and Sacred Economics in Victorian Britain
“Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God…” … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, culture, capitalism, economics, ethics, Political economy, religion, sociology of knowledge, United Kingdom
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