Ana Marie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and...
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The American Sociological Association solutes an eminent scholar and groundbreaking economic sociologist Viviana Zelizer with the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, its highest honor, and the Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, its second major honor. Presenting Professor Zelizer with the Association’s two most prestigious awards at the same year […]
The Republican Party’s primary race is filling up with candidates crusading against “wokeness,” particularly in...
I did something both awesome and ill-timed. Well, first I should back up and remind you of something I told you before at some nebulous time in the past, and that is that I am an immersive daydreamer. I said that I was a maladaptive daydreamer but I didn’t even think that was right, because […]
For our book club at OEF we’re reading the book Smart Cities (2013) by Anthony Townsend. I just finished the Audible audio book and wanted to get my notes down in writing before they slip away. The book covers the deployment of digital technology for managing and understanding the city. There are a two main … Continue reading Smart Cities (2013)
by Ben Clift* Political economy has long taken a keen interest in the politics of economic ideas, but considerably less attention has been paid to the politics of economic method. Method gets neglected as the technical realm within which, it is assumed economic ideas, once established, are implemented in straightforward fashion. In fact, economic method […]
Quinn Slobodian’s new book, Crack-Up Capitalism is an original and striking analysis of a weird apparent disjuncture. Libertarians and classical liberals famously claim to be opposed to state power. So why do some of them resort to it so readily? In his previous book, The Globalists, Quinn argued that globalization was poorly understood. It wasn’t […]
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about...
Milton Friedman – one of the scholastic protagonists and machinists of Neoliberalism – wrote in the preface to the 1982 edition of Capitalism and Freedom, tutoring his disciples: “There is enormous inertia — a tyranny of the status quo — in private and especially governmental arrangements. Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces […]
Fifteen years after the Lehman Brothers collapse and following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank, Signature Bank, as well as the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse, banks are back in the headlines. Daniel Beunza and Pierre-Christian Fink assembled an excellent panel of sociologists and social scientists, studying banks, regulation and finance, to […]