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Foucault on criticism monsters and the laws of vain reviews

https://economicsociology.org/2024/04/22/foucault-on-criticism-monsters-and-the-laws-of-vain-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-117505

Thanks for all your good notes!!! You are doing us all a great service through your work. Most recently I really liked the Foucault piece! All best Richard

https://economicsociology.org/2024/02/10/surveillance-capitalism-and-cashless-society/comment-page-1/#comment-117504

Finance, Class, and the Birth of Neoclassical Economics: The Marginalist Revolution Revisited – Ec… 

https://economicsociology.org/2019/07/28/finance-class-and-the-birth-of-neoclassical-economics-the-marginalist-revolution-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-117503

Thatcher once said that her greatest achievement was Tony Blair due to the shift Labour took to the right under his leadership in abolishing Clause Four. That

https://economicsociology.org/2018/03/19/thatcherisms-greatest-achievement/comment-page-1/#comment-117501

Interesting. This is tribalism writ large. It is important because it has never gone away. The U.S. democratic experiment was based upon tribalism. Far too many human int...

https://economicsociology.org/2024/03/24/it-is-identity-stupid-nationalism-trade-and-the-populist-rage/comment-page-1/#comment-117500

Ben Clift

https://economicsociology.org/2023/06/09/the-politics-of-economic-method-and-technocratic-economic-governance/comment-page-1/#comment-117499

"There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. . We no longer live in a world...

https://economicsociology.org/2024/02/17/great-academic-opportunities-17-calls-for-papers-9-postdocs-6-summer-schools-5-phd-scholarships-2-jobs-a-non-residential-fellowship/comment-page-1/#comment-117498

was her ideological triumph that when asked what her greatest achievement was Thatcher replied “Tony  Blair,” since he continued her self-focused anti-society mission. That was before her d...

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Ulrich Beck élete során az egyik legtöbbet hivatkozott társadalomtudós volt a világon. A 25 évig tartó munkásságában olyan témákkal foglalkozott, mint globális változás, a ref...

https://economicsociology.org/2015/01/04/ulrich-beck-has-died-his-powerful-concept-of-risk-society-is-relevant-as-never-was-before/comment-page-1/#comment-117491

Wallenstein's work was very path breaking, so mainstream economists who hate systems thinking, made him a non-person. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/adapting-a-maladaptive-society-institutional...

https://economicsociology.org/2023/11/25/rereading-wallerstein-and-applying-world-systems-theory-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-117485

is Immanuel Wallerstein’s legacy for the 21st century? Following the closure of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study

https://economicsociology.org/2019/09/01/rip-immanuel-wallerstein-this-is-the-end-this-is-the-beginning/comment-page-1/#comment-117483

But Blair also learned from the Thatcher years and political PR and spin became more prevalent than ever. This is perhaps just one of the reasons that Thatcher regarded Blair and New Labour as a...

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Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” This article from the Economic Sociology & Political Economy website illustrates Einstein’s “take” on the power of ideas and i...

https://economicsociology.org/2016/01/08/albert-einstein-on-the-power-of-ideas-and-imagination-in-science/comment-page-1/#comment-117476

This excerpt is from Economic Sociology and Economy: 

https://economicsociology.org/2015/08/28/remember-the-golden-rule-whoever-has-the-gold-makes-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-117471

O., 2018. Thatcherism’s greatest achievement. Available at: https://economicsociology.org/2018/03/19/thatcherisms-greatest-achievement/

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