Tag Archives: United Kingdom

Condemning the University of Leicester — Standing for Political Economy and Critical Management Studies

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Oleg Komlik

On January 18 — the first day of second semester — senior managers at the University of Leicester (UK) notified dozens of academic staff members and professional employees that their jobs are at risk of redundancy. In the midst of … Continue reading →

Posted in Name and Shame | Tagged higher education, neoliberalism, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

How Did Corporations Spread CSR from the US to the Rest of the World?

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Oleg Komlik

by Rami Kaplan & Daniel Kinderman* Why do firms adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices? How does CSR spread across the globe? Our paper “The Business-Led Globalization of CSR” provides surprising answers to these most fundamental questions, based on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Community members posts, Papers | Tagged corporate social responsibility, corporations, diffusion, globalization, neoliberalism, United Kingdom, Venezuela | Leave a comment

Did Neoliberalism and Austerity Cause Brexit? Yes.

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

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 | 1 Comment

Ten years after the 2007-2008 global financial crisis – the human toll in the financial services sector

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

by Gregor Gall* Ten years ago this summer, the first rumblings of the thunderclap of what would become the global storm of the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 were heard. The first rumble to be heard was of the panic … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Community members posts | Tagged banking, Critical management studies, financial centres, financial crisis, labor, sociology of work, Unions, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

Genealogy of Capitalism and Sacred Economics in Victorian Britain

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Oleg Komlik

“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 →

Posted in Books | Tagged anthropology, ‪culture, capitalism, economics, ethics, Political economy, religion, sociology of knowledge, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

Career opportunities: the ones that never knock

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Oleg Komlik

by André Vereta Nahoum A couple of weeks have passed since many countries celebrated on May 1st, Labour Day, alternatively named May Day, but the entire month is devoted to the celebration of the struggles and toils of … Continue reading →

Posted in Community members posts | Tagged inflation, neoliberalism, policy, unemployment, United Kingdom | 1 Comment

Financialization as a state project

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

Financialization is a key feature of neoliberalism. It refers to the capturing impact of financial markets, institutions, actors, instruments and logics on the real economy, labor, households and daily life. Essentially it has significant implications for the broader patterns and functioning of an … Continue reading →

Posted in Papers | Tagged finance, financialization, neoliberalism, policy, Political economy, state, United Kingdom | 2 Comments

When public good exchanged to private gain: neoliberalism, higher education and social inequality

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

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 →

Posted in Papers | Tagged education, higher education, inequality, knowledge, neoliberalism, policy, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

Money is a mode of governance in a material world of capitalism

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

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

Name and shame: Warwick University to outsource academics to a subsidiary

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

While revolts against the neoliberalization and commercialization of higher education have been sweeping Dutch universities and London universities, the University of Warwick (whose motto is “Mind moves matter”) is giving in to the dangerous logic of “profit above all”. The university management will be changing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Name and Shame, Oleg Komlik | Tagged academia, higher education, marketization, neoliberalism, United Kingdom | 3 Comments

Gender Inequality in the Labour Market in the UK

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

While women’s engagement and outcomes in the labour market have progressed, the work they do and the remuneration they receive does not reflect personal qualifications relative to men. Why? Gender Inequality in the Labour Market in the UK provides an extensive … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged education, gender, household, inequality, labor, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

How did the East India Company become the most powerful business‬ in history?

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes and organizational context, in an extraordinary Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757 Emily Erikson (Yale University) demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged capitalism, corporations, Culture, economic history, Economic Sociology, globalization, imperialism, markets, monopoly, networks, social networks, trade, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

Removing social support is necessary to compel the ‪‎poor‬ to work — what’s the origin of this erroneous political idea?

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

According to many neoliberal politicians and economists, assistance to the unemployed and poor always creates more of the poverty it aims to alleviate; therefore removing welfare benefits and social support is necessary to compel the ‪‎poor‬ and unemployed to work. What is the origin … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged class, economic history, ideas, inequality, Karl Polanyi, neoliberalism, Political economy, poverty, United Kingdom, welfare | 2 Comments

Scots, Save Finance Capitalism!

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

It is fascinating to observe how the knights of the Neoliberal Globalism: economists (mainstream, sort of critical towards mainstream and those who sought repentance such as Jeffrey Sachs), the business elite, the nowadays’ robber barons, and their couriers in the … Continue reading →