Debt Matters: Inequality and Foregone Medical Care
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”- Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars have long observed disparities in health, health behaviors and stress by...
View ArticleUnemployment kills: 1 in 5 suicides is associated with unemployment
Numerous studies have demonstrated that there is a relationship between unemployment and poor health and that (the threat of) losing a job and prolonged unemployment can constitute a serious situation...
View ArticleWhen public good exchanged to private gain: neoliberalism, higher education...
Public higher education has a long history, and with its growth it is associated with the extension of a social right to education from secondary schooling to university studies. Following the rise in...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs banker: “We have to accept that inequality is a way of...
Defending huge bonuses in banking industry on a panel on ethics, Lord Brian Griffiths (Vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs bank and a adviser to Margaret Thatcher) proudly said: “We have to accept that...
View ArticleIncome Inequality
“I don’t see any income inequality!” “Me neither!” (A cartoon by Signe Wilkinson) *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community through Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ /...
View ArticleDemocratizing Finance: Reducing Inequalities of Income, Wealth and Power
Politics & Society has just published a thought-provoking special issue titled “Democratizing Finance”. This interesting collection of papers resulted from a workshop organized in July 2018 by the...
View ArticleThe Long Divorce Between the Economy and Financial Markets
by Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely* As the coronavirus spread around the world, the global economy entered a recession unprecedented in scale. The World Bank predicts a 5.2 percent economic...
View ArticleBuilding a Predistributive Democracy on the Ruins of Market Justice
Five years ago I wrote: “A spectre is haunting the US, parts of Europe and the world — the spectre of Fascism and Authoritarian Neoliberalism, veiled as “defensive democracy” and “common-sense...
View ArticleReframing Financialization: Bringing Class Struggle Back In
by Yair Kaldor* The growing size and importance of financial markets, institutions, and activities—often labeled as “financialization”—is one of the key economic developments of recent decades. The...
View ArticleCharles Darwin on the atrocity of slavery and the origin of inequality
In 1836, a twenty-seven years old Charles Darwin, came back from a five-year, extraordinary survey expedition around the world. In 1839, he published a book that was later given a title The Voyage of...
View ArticleAll they think about is money…
Fred Wright was a cartoonist for the United Electrical Workers of America (UE), from 1949 until 1984. Wright’s cartoons reflected the daily routines experienced by the working men and women: layoffs,...
View ArticleEconomic Memories and Sense-making of the Profound Institutional Change
by Till Hilmar* My recent book Deserved reconstructs people’s experiences with, and memories of, disruptive economic change. It foregrounds the voices of individuals who endured the “shock therapy” of...
View Article10 Economic Sociology books for students and the general public
I am proud of the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community blog and social media becoming a source of knowledge and learning, in various forms, for students at all levels. It is also...
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