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Showing posts with label economics and sociology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics and sociology. Show all posts
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Thomas Piketty’s New Book — Ramanan

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Piketty coins a new term, the "Brahmin left." The Case for Concerted Action Thomas Piketty’s New Book V. Ramanan
Thursday, August 29, 2019

The Sacrificial Rites of Capitalism We Don’t Talk About — Lynn Parramore

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Lynn Parramore reviews Suprita Rajan's A Tale of Two Capitalisms , which is about the intersection of economics with anthropology and s...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

Economic policies can reduce deaths of despair William H. Dow, Anna Godøy, Chris Lowenstein, Michael Reich

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Policymakers and researchers have sought to understand the causes of and effective policy responses to recent increases in mortality due to...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Robert Heilbroner — The Embarrassment of Economics: Weekend Reading

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Robert Heilbroner hits it out of the park in this short article, originally a speech. It's a fun read, too. Grasping Reality Robert Heil...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Giddens: We are suffering from ‘cosmopolitan overload’ and a huge task lies before us – to create responsible capitalism — Labinot Kunushevci Interviews Anthony Giddens

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Giddens: We live in a world that has moved ‘off the edge of history’ at the same time as it remains deeply embedded in it. By this I mean t...
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Sunday, September 3, 2017

Daniel Little — Erik Olin Wright on real utopias

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Erik Olin Wright is one of the genuinely important contributors to a progressive sociology in the United States. He was one of the first wa...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Vladimir Popov and Jomo Kwame Sundaram — Early Death in Russia

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Sociological effects of economic change. Economic contraction results in social dysfunction that manifests negatively in individual lives....
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

David F. Ruccio — White trash

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Throughout U.S. history, class has always been there, if only just below the surface. But then in times of crisis, such as the aftermath of...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Daniel Luban — The Elusive Karl Polanyi

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Karl Polanyi had thought of calling his magnum opus Origins of the Cataclysm, or The Liberal Utopia, or Freedom from Economics. His publish...
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Saturday, June 3, 2017

Oleg Komlik — Theodor Adorno on the division between economics and sociology

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My thesis is quite simply that the strict division between economics and sociology, the consequence of which is unquestionably to dismiss t...
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Monday, February 6, 2017

Diane Coyle — Economy and society

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It’s fair to say the average economist doesn’t pay much attention to sociologists, but to the extent that (s)he does, Mark Granovetter will...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Noah Smith — Calling All Sociologists: America Needs You

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Something I can agree with. There are many more economists in the public sphere than sociologists. The president has a Council of Econom...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Whither Economics?

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Noah Smith speculates. Noahpinion A new age of econ imperialism is coming Noah Smith | Assistant Professor of Finance, Stony Brook U...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Peter Turchin — Naked Self-Interest is a Recipe for Social Dissolution (a response to Branko Milanovic)

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Must-read. Cliodynamica — A Blog about the Evolution of Civilizations Naked Self-Interest is a Recipe for Social Dissolution (a respons...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Polina Aronson — Romantic regimes

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Love in the West is consumerist – we choose a partner to give us what we think we need. But Russians do things differently. Weekend readi...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Max Weber on power as institutional

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LAW exists when there is a probability that an order will be upheld by a specific staff of men who will use physical or psychical compulsio...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Matt Bruenig — Institutions Matter Except When They Are Socialist

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Robert Solow once remarked: Every discussion among economists of the relatively slow growth of the British economy compared with the Cont...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Jason Smith — Managing by wandering around

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Must-read by Jason Smith. It's fun. Information Transfer Economics Managing by wandering around Jason Smith
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Oleg Komlik — Emile Durkheim’s definition of Economic Sociology

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Institutional analysis. Economic Sociology and Political Economy Emile Durkheim’s definition of Economic Sociology Oleg Komlik | founder a...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Dirk Ehnts — Money – a legal, not an economic thing

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I have recently read a paper by Christine Desan that is titled Money as a legal institution . The author argues that money is a legal thing...