August 2025 – Economic Sociology & Political Economy
1 post published by Oleg Komlik during August 2025| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
1 post published by Oleg Komlik during August 2025| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Vijay Selvam* Bitcoin has failed. Seventeen years since inception, Bitcoin remains a solution in search of a problem. With its eyewatering volatility, it has flopped as an inflation h…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Jawied Nawabi* At least, since the end of WWII the world has advanced significantly in scientific knowledge, technology, and the institutionalization of universal human rights conventions, yet there still prevails enormous levels of inequality, malnutrition, and poverty in the world. With all our advancements in the social sciences in the past seven decades on how […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
I know that most men—not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical or philosophic problems—can very seldo…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 28 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully funded) and special issues, 9 postdoc positions, 7 summer schools, 5 job openings, 4 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting positions, and a research grant in […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Glory M. Liu* People like to fight over Adam Smith. To some, the Scottish philosopher is the patron saint of capitalism who wrote that great bible of economics, The Wealth of Nations (1776). Its…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Patrick Honohan*, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (2009-15) That politicians should leave it to central banks to set interest rates in such a way that price stability is maintained (and …| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Ana Villareal I am devastated by the heartbreaking news of the tragic death of Michael Burawoy, a preeminent, inspiring, and brilliant sociologist, and above all, an extraordinary and gentle hum…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Tamar Barkay* Are the inverse trajectories of internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the decline of organized labor in the past decades linked? If so, how?These questions arise from three widely recognized observations. First, since the 1980s, most OECD countries have experienced a decline in unionization and union density rates (Visser, 2012). Second, following […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Erich Fromm’s insights in The Revolution of Hope, written almost 60 years ago, resonate today—probably surprisingly, or unfortunately not—with the same meaningfulness and a sound call for bot…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 32 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully funded) and special issues, 11 postdoc positions, 3 PhD scholarships, 2 job openings, a summer school, a visiting grant in economic sociology, political economy, […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Jeffrey Alexander, a prominent sociologist and social theorist: Inside the culture and structure of modernity, good and evil are tensely intertwined. We should not be naïve about the evils of moder…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
As this year draws to a close, it is an opportune time to highlight and praise some of the best books in Economic Sociology and Political Economy that have been named and recognized by several major associations in our field. These are extraordinary studies, in their empirical innovation and theoretical contribution. Above all, they are […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Dive into these very interesting and enlightening readings and recorded talks on various topics in Economic Sociology and Political Economy: — “Pick a different theory of liberalism, an…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Donni Wang* ———–* Donni Wang holds a PhD in Classics from Stanford University. Her research on non-capitalist modes of economics in ancient Greece is featured in her book Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism. Now an independent scholar and historian, she is dedicated to paradigm change through both academic and creative approaches. *****While […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
A man does not “by nature” wish to earn more and more money, but simply to live as he is accustomed to live and to earn as much as is necessary for that purpose. Wherever modern capitalism has begu…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Yingyao Wang* The technocratic project, which once captured political imagination with its potential to manage society and the economy could be managed with rationality and scientific knowledge,…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
