How and How Not to do Economics, with Robert Skidelsky
New INET lecture series. Expanding an understanding of economics beyond mathematical models, Robert Skidelsky cove
Economists’ Politics Loom Large in their Views of Capitalist Crises
By Mark Horowitz, Radical critics have long maligned economists for their role in normalizing capitalist production
Remembering Erik Olin Wright: A Real Utopian in Theory and Praxis
By Michael Burawoy, Erik Olin Wright died just after midnight on January 23, in Milwaukee’s Froedtert Hospital. He was
New Book: Identifying a Free Society – Conditions and Indicators
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The Dynamics of Capitalism: Money and Financialization
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New Book: The New Spirit of Capitalism
by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, translated by Gregory Elliott. From Verso: In this major work, sociologists Luc Bo
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The Review of Political Economy invites contributions that explore the many relationships between economics and soc
ISA World Congress of Sociology: Power, Violence and Justice – Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities
Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018 Since the inception of the discipline, sociologists have been concerned with power
A Reconsideration of World-Systems Analysis/Dependency Theory
By David M. Fields, Within the extensive literature on globalization it has been consistently theorized that given hi
New Book: Psychiatric Hegemony – A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness
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World-Ecological Perspectives: Recently Published
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New Book: Marxist Thought and the City
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New book by William I. Robinson: Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
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50th Anniversary Conference of the Caucus for a New Political Science
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Call For Papers – Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism. Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Society
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