Financial Statecraft or Subordination: Emerging Markets in Global Finance

by Andreas Nölke* The share of emerging markets in the global financial system has grown tremendously during the last decades. This is particularly true for the large economies that are members of …

economicsociology.org

Statistical Optimism

:-) “Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our tu…

economicsociology.org

Great academic opportunities: 14 calls for papers, 7 postdocs, 5 PhD stipends, 4 summer schools, 2 visiting posts, 2 jobs, 2 grants, an award

Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 14 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues…

economicsociology.org

When Money Became God: Capitalism and the Religion of Modernity

by Ivan Light* A review of Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism became the Religion of Modernity. Harvard University Press. Max Weber famously declared in 1917 that …

economicsociology.org

The Emotional Economy of Parenting

by Nina Bandelj* In the summer of 2024, U.S. Surgeon General issued a public health advisory about something that would have seemed an unlikely candidate for federal alarm: parenting. More than 40 …

economicsociology.org

The Emotional Economy of Parenting

by Nina Bandelj* In the summer of 2024, U.S. Surgeon General issued a public health advisory about something that would have seemed an unlikely candidate for federal alarm: parenting. More than 40 …

economicsociology.org

Alan Greenspan’s flaw, illusions, and mumbling

Alan Greenspan, Fed Chair from 1987 to 2006: glimpses a fateful tenure and a defining era. “Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings&#823…

economicsociology.org

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

huji.zoom.us

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

us06web.zoom.us

Join meeting on Teams

teams.microsoft.com

TWO Webinars in preparation for the "Democracy under Pressure" 2027 Conference - International Karl Polanyi Society

Join us in April and May for two webianrs to prepare for the upcoming 2027 Socioeconomics & Law Conference "Democracy under Pressure"

karlpolanyisociety.com

Did Neoliberalism and Austerity Cause Brexit? Yes.

While the Brexit process is underway and UK politicians are tearing themselves apart over this overwhelmingly and multidimensionally complicated  issue, an economics professor from Warwick Universi…

economicsociology.org

The Political Economy of Academic Coaching: Why a New Professional Field Is Emerging

by Robert (Robby) Cserni* On a Zoom call, Greg, a graduate student in social work, described a problem that had nothing to do with his ability. Strong grades, clear research questions, two years in…

economicsociology.org

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Neal Harris and Robin Jervis, (Oxford Brookes University) 'Cracks in left strategy: Interstitial revolution in E. O. Wright and John Holloway' Capital & Class https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

bham-ac-uk.zoom.us

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: TULE presents the Transition Security Project - Labor of the US Military-Industrial Complex: From Mid-Century Strengths to a Dead-End Future. After register...

The Transition Security Project (TSP) investigates the U.S. and U.K. military-industrial complexes as economic, climate, and geopolitical threats. You can find more about their work here. TULE has joi...

torontomu.zoom.us

Trump as Messiah

by Ivan Light*  How can they still back him? During the Trump presidency, this question arose again and again when, despite a relentless succession of failures, lies, outrages, and scandals, h…

economicsociology.org

The best online talks in Economic Sociology and Political Economy

As you probably know, we regularly share, exclusively through ES/PE’s social media channels, information about some of the most interesting and promising online talks and webinars in economic socio…

economicsociology.org

The Price of Nationhood: Symbolic Capital in the Consumerist Marketplace

Departing from this amusing yet entirely real vignette, it is worth considering several outstanding and insightful books that thoughtfully engage with various dimensions of this fascinating subject…

economicsociology.org

The Karl Polanyi Bibliographic Database of Scholarship and Digital Archive

The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy at Concordia University has launched the Bibliographic Database of International Scholarship – a project dedicated to exploring Karl Polanyi’s …

economicsociology.org

The Karl Polanyi Bibliographic Database of Scholarship and Digital Archive

The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy at Concordia University has launched the Bibliographic Database of International Scholarship – a project dedicated to exploring Karl Polanyi’s …

economicsociology.org

Varieties of Impact Investing: Context, Institutions, and Translation

by Noé Kabouche* Over the last few decades, initiatives involving ‘sustainable’, ‘ethical’ and ‘responsible’ finance have been thriving. Among this flourishing renewal of morality in the financial …

economicsociology.org

India, Modernity and the Great Divergence – Why the Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth First Occurred in England

by Kaveh Yazdani*  How come the world’s eight wealthiest men are as rich as half the planet’s population? Why do the vast bulk of the super-rich come from the West despite the rise of Chinese…

economicsociology.org

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN March 2026 workshop: Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’. After registering, you will receive a...

Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’: monopolistic corporations as neoliberalism’s ideal market form Speaker: Ian Bruff is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Mancheste...

bham-ac-uk.zoom.us

BRICS: Actors, Trajectory, and Critical Assessment

A lecture with Dr Ana Saggioro Garcia.

eventbrite.co.uk

Current Program

mpifg.de

RC43 Webinar with Raquel Rolnik: "Housing Financialization 2.0. or 3.0.?"

The right to shelter is heavily undermined by the assetization of housing, a tension this webinar will engage with critically.

eventbrite.es

Great academic opportunities: 17 calls for papers, 9 postdocs, 9 summer schools, 2 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, a job, an award

Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 17 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues…

economicsociology.org