Tag: Political economy
Political economy of Ebola — one picture and two articles
“Economics graduate programs may be turning out a generation with too many idiot savants skilled in technique but innocent of real economic issues.”
Pope Francis, Thomas Piketty and Karl Polanyi featured the fascinating presidential address by Michael Burawoy at the International Sociological Association congress
Karl Polanyi: “The market mechanism moreover created the delusion of economic determinism as a general law for all human society.. “
Open access to the best 20 papers from Journal of European Public Policy from the last 20 years
Congratulations to David Levi-Faur for receiving the Award for Regulatory Studies Development, by the European Consortium for Political Research Group on Regulatory Governance
The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique — a must-read for every economic sociologist and political economist
The Economic Sociology and Political Economy community reached 17,000 members
“Politics in the Age of Austerity” analyzes the dilemmas governments face as they seek to reconcile the conflicting demands of voters and ‘the markets’
“Inequality for All” – a documentary featuring Professor Robert Reich
What is the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community? What are its goals? Why and How did it started?
Why are banking systems unstable in some countries–but not in others? Since 1840, the US had 12 crises; Canada had none.
“Critical political economy and capitalist diversity” — the Capital & Class journal special issue.
From Political Economy to Economics: the Desocialisation and Dehistoricisation of the Dismal Science
“Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA” tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Social and Political Evolution of the Chilean Clientelism
After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
Evolution of British Economic Sociology: From Local and ‘Industrial’ to Comparative and ‘Economic’
