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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
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Tagged austerity, Economic Sociology, neoliberalism, policy, Political economy, politics, United Kingdom, welfare
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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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Tagged Economic Sociology, economics, knowledge, politics, sociology of knowledge
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Income Inequality is Detrimental to Political and Civil Equality
“Money provides power and power provides freedom”, asserted C. Wright Mills in his masterpiece The Power Elite sixty years ago (1956: 162). In shadow of recent several decades of globalization and neoliberalism, University of Utah researcher Wade Cole took Mills’ argument a step further and … Continue reading
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Tagged civil society, elites, inequality, neoliberalism, politics, rights
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Thatcherism’s greatest achievement
In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.” (Conor Burns, April 11, 2008) *** … Continue reading
Social Media, Authoritarian Capitalism, and Donald Trump
by Christian Fuchs* In the years from 1986 until 1999, the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party Jörg Haider with the help of anti-immigration slogans, politics as entertainment, a juvenile and dynamic habitus, as well as ridicule of opponents led his … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, Frankfurt school, media, nationalism, neoliberalism, politics, populism, social media
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The Role of Money in Social Life: Morality and Power in the World of the Poor
by Ariel Wilkis* “Perhaps behind the coin is God.” — Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir (1949) My book The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor (Stanford University Press, 2017) offers a new focus for … Continue reading
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Tagged Argentina, community, ethnography, money, morality, politics, poverty, power, social networks, sociology of money, welfare
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Giddens: We are suffering from ‘cosmopolitan overload’ and a huge task lies before us – to create responsible capitalism
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
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Tagged economics, European Union, globalization, media, modernity, politics, risk society
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Beyond the Left Turn: The Second Wave of Incorporation of the Popular Sectors in Latin America
by Federico M. Rossi* Neoliberalism has been defined as crucial to the reformulation of state-society relations in the postcorporatist period because it has undermined the national-populist or – as Cavarozzi and Garretón (1989) called it – “state-centered matrix”, through the weakening, … Continue reading
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Tagged Latin America, neoliberalism, politics, social movements, Unions
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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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