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As 2018 comes to an end, I rounded up the top 10 most-read posts of the year on the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community blog. You are welcome to (re)read and share them. I would like to use this opportunity and thank everyone for being here, liking and sharing - for making this community what it really is! Oleg Komlik https://economicsociology.org/2018/12/22/top-10-most-read-economic-sociology-and-political-economy-posts-of-2018/In 1951 John Kenneth Galbraith wrote Milton Friedman to thank him for giving a lecture at #Harvard #economics department. This very short letter is not only a typical example for #Galbraith’s eloquence and sardonic phrasing, but underlines his ability to combine conceptual open-mindedness with a sincere standpoint of his own. Read, and more: https://economicsociology.org/2018/11/23/galbraith-vs-friedman-the-emancipation-of-belief-is-the-most-formidable-of-the-tasks-of-reform-the-one-on-which-all-else-depends/Tags
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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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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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Karl Marx on Free Time – Time for the Full Development of the Individual
To justify the upcoming three-week blogcation, I turned to Karl Marx: “The saving of labour time [is] equal to an increase of free time, i.e. time for the full development of the individual, which in turn reacts back upon the productive … Continue reading
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Tagged Karl Marx, labor, leisure, personal well being, public sociology, social movements, welfare
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The debt crisis and austerity in the Eurozone: social and political impacts
During the past six years, the countries of the European periphery – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain – have been experiencing severe economic-financial crises. In the shadow of these drastic events, the EU institutions and the IMF initiated “bailout programs” for … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, banking system, debt, European Union, Eurozone crisis, financial crisis, Greece, monetary policy, policy, Political economy, politics, Spain, welfare
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Putting a human face on statistics: unemployed women in the public workforce system
An ethnographic sociologist Mary Gatta (Rutgers University) went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center which is supposed to be an unemployed worker’s go-to resource on the way to re-employment. Weaving together her own account … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, Great Recession, inequality, policy, poverty, unemployment, United States, welfare
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Removing social support is necessary to compel the poor to work — what’s the origin of this erroneous political idea?
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
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Tagged class, economic history, ideas, inequality, Karl Polanyi, neoliberalism, Political economy, poverty, United Kingdom, welfare
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Inequality is not just about money. Inequality is literally a killing field.
Inequality is a socio-cultural order which reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world— argues Göran Therborn (University of Cambridge) … Continue reading
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Tagged class, Finland, gender, higher education, inequality, United Kingdom, United States, welfare
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Fascinating Story of Basic Income: A Town without Poverty, with Better Well-being and Health
Try to imagine a town where the government pays each of the residents a living basic income, regardless of who they were and what they did. For a four-year period in the 1970s, families in Dauphin, a small rural town … Continue reading
Corporate density is especially potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits—but not social welfare nonprofits—when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization
In “Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites, and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities” (open access) Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis & Mary Ann Glynn examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social … Continue reading
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Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 by Vanessa May is an interesting analysis of domestic worker activism and cultural values attached to public and private space. But essentially, this excellent book is about failures: the failure of imagination … Continue reading
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