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Category Archives: Political economy
Anxiety and Politics
In this essay, Franz L. Neumann discusses the role of anxiety in politics. The article asks: How does it happen that the masses sell their souls to leaders and follow them blindly? On what does the power of attraction of leaders over masses … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Authoritarianism, Fascism, Political economy, Political psychology, Politics
Tagged anxiety, authoritarianism, Fascism, political economy, political psychology, politics
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The Methodology of Polanyi’s Great Transformation
Polanyi’s book on The Great Transformation provides an analysis of the emergence and significance of capitalist economic structures which differs radically from those currently universally taught in economic textbooks. This analysis is based on a methodological approach which is also … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Economy, Polanyi, Political economy
Tagged capitalism, economics, polanyi, political economy
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Deleuze and DeLanda: A new ontology, a new political economy?
This paper will explore how the social ontology of Gilles Deleuze, as recently summed up by Manuel DeLanda, can be used in the context of economic sociology. In particular, the text will study the divergences (as well as similarities) between … Continue reading
Posted in DeLanda, Deleuze, Political economy, Politics
Tagged delanda, deleuze, political economy, politics
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Karl Polanyi : prophète de la fin de l’économie libérale
Karl Polanyi, écrivain et professeur d’origine hongroise, a vécu en Europe centrale et en Grande-Bretagne avant d’émigrer aux Etats-Unis durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Il est l’auteur d’une critique brillante et puissante de la tendance libérale à placer le marché … Continue reading
Cognitive Psychology – from the Bourgeois Individual to Class Struggle
At their best, radical critiques of cognitive psychology call into question the atomistic, mechanistic, and representational foundations of modern epistemology. Despite some notable exceptions, critics of cognitive psychology have rarely ventured into the domain of political economy. Indeed, the overwhelming … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois individual, Class struggle, Cognitive psychology, Critical psychology, Political economy, Social class
Tagged bourgeois Individual, class struggle, cognitive psychology, critical psychology, political economy, social class
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The European Crisis and a Political Critique of Capitalism
The European crisis has provoked widespread critique of capitalist arrangements in most if not all countries in Europe. But to what extent do contemporary social protest and critique indicate a revival of critical capacity? The range of criticisms against the … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Critical thinking, Europe, Political economy
Tagged capitalism, critical thinking, europe, european crisis, political economy
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The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia and Bodies
… many of the critics and theorists who turned to affect often focused on the circuit from affect to emotion, ending up with subjectively felt states of emotion – a return to the subject as the subject of emotion. I … Continue reading
Posted in Affect, Biomedia, Political economy
Tagged affect, biomedia, political economy
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Winner-take-all politics: how Washington made the rich richer-and turned its back on the middle class
Read A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time–the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich. We all know that the … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Financial, Política, Political economy, Politics, Power, Rich, Wealth
Tagged politics, power, rich, wealth
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The Fed’s $16 Trillion Bailouts Under-reported
Read The media’s inscrutable brush-off of the Government Accounting Office’s recently released audit of the Federal Reserve has raised many questions about the Fed’s goings-on since the financial crisis began in 2008. The audit of the Fed’s emergency lending programs … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Policies, Political economy, Political power, Politics
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¿Quién nos devolverá la vida pública, los bienes públicos, que nos están robando?
Leer Hay que buscar las razones de la degeneración intelectual de parte de la clase política. Es un deber de la sociedad descubrir las razones ocultas de las privatizaciones. ¿Cómo recuperaremos lo que hemos perdido? El verdadero sustento de la … Continue reading
Posted in Política, Political economy, Political power, Political protests, Politics
Tagged política, political power, politics
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