Showing papers in "Economy and Society in 2020"
TL;DR: The authors explores how to build a critical analysis of post-crisis capitalism by moving beyond Marx, Foucault and Callon's approaches, which is crucially important because powerful technocra...
Abstract: This introduction explores how to build a critical analysis of post-crisis capitalism by moving beyond Marx, Foucault and Callon's approaches. This is crucially important because powerful technocra...
66 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at recent forms of "responsibly investment" and use of ESG within a large global bank, which is a valuation technique that takes into account environmental, social and go...
Abstract: This paper looks at recent forms of ‘responsible investment’. It follows the use of ESG within a large global bank. ESG is a valuation technique that takes into account environmental, social and go...
56 citations
TL;DR: The shift from active management to index funds has far-reaching socio-economic consequences, as it h... as discussed by the authors argues that money mass-migration into index funds can have farreaching socioeconomic consequences.
Abstract: Fundamental change is happening in global finance – the shift from active management to index funds. This money mass-migration into index funds has far-reaching socio-economic consequences, as it h...
53 citations
TL;DR: A growing body of research has analysed the variegation of financialization processes and the role of states as important actors as discussed by the authors, and the authors of this paper argue that states are not important actors in financialization.
Abstract: A growing body of research has analysed the variegation of financialization processes and the role of states as important actors therein. Contributing to this literature, this paper argues that mor...
48 citations
TL;DR: A new set of power dynamics and logics of accumul... as discussed by the authors have been proposed for personal data collection and analysis, which can be found in the paper "Power Dynamics and Logics of Personal Data Collection and Analysis".
Abstract: Technology giants, bolstered by weak regulatory oversight, have expanded capacities for personal data collection and analysis. This has resulted in a new set of power dynamics and logics of accumul...
42 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore processes of speculative accumulation through land in the making of a new city in Andhra Pradesh, southern India, and explore the role of land speculation in this process.
Abstract: The paper explores processes of speculative accumulation through land in the making of a new city in Andhra Pradesh, southern India. Rather than analysing the Amaravati plan as an example o...
28 citations
TL;DR: This paper provided an anthropological perspective on speculation in housing by using the idea of "social form" as the analytical lens, instead of seeing speculation as a matter of individual orien...
Abstract: This paper provides an anthropological perspective on speculation in housing by using the idea of ‘social form’ as the analytical lens. Instead of seeing speculation as a matter of individual orien...
28 citations
TL;DR: A blockchain is described as a digital actor-network platform that makes it possible to define and distribute data transfer rights and the socio-economic consequences of these technically diverse blockchain platforms are analyzed.
Abstract: Drawing on an empirical study of cryptocurrency white papers, this paper proposes an actor-based taxonomy of cryptocurrency blockchains. First, it describes the evolution of blockchain architecture...
26 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the capacity that technologies of the imagination have to suture routinized financial practices in the City of London to the opening up of new extractive industry fronti...
Abstract: In this paper, I examine the capacity that ‘technologies of the imagination’ have to suture routinized financial practices in the City of London to the opening up of new extractive industry ‘fronti...
25 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a study of the thoroughly digitalized and data-intensive Danish healthcare system is presented, where digital tools for datafication interact with contemporary ideas about what counts as knowledge about work.
Abstract: How do digital tools for datafication interact with contemporary ideas about what counts as knowledge about work? Based on a study of the thoroughly digitalized and data-intensive Danish healthcare...
22 citations
TL;DR: The 2008 financial crisis illustrated the potential for the failure of a single industry to threaten the functioning of the entire economy as mentioned in this paper, by reconstructing the ecological approach to systemic risk assessment.
Abstract: The 2008 financial crisis illustrated the potential for the failure of a single industry to threaten the functioning of the entire economy. By reconstructing the ecological approach to systemic ris...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the current emergence of infrastructure as a global asset class against a longer-term colonial history of speculation, taking the case of the Indian railway as an example.
Abstract: This paper issues a challenge to examine the current emergence of infrastructure as a global asset class against a longer-term colonial history of speculation. Taking the case of the Indian railway...
TL;DR: The long-term unemployed poor continue to insist that wage labour must remain the key path to income even in a place like South Africa, with endemic structural unemployment and spiralli... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Why would the long-term unemployed poor continue to insist that wage labour must remain the key path to income – even in a place like South Africa, with endemic structural unemployment and spiralli...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the world of infrastructure investment, referred to by the industry as the "infraspace", and challenge dominant governance paradigms by exploring the world.
Abstract: This paper challenges dominant governance paradigms by exploring the world of infrastructure investment, referred to by the industry as the ‘infraspace’. Starting with financial institutions and mu...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on how gold as a physical object moves in financial markets, in what is known by many market participants as the gold space, and how gold acts today as an ambiguou...
Abstract: This paper focuses on how gold as a physical object moves in financial markets, in what is known by many market participants as ‘the gold space’. Gold acts today in financial markets as an ambiguou...
TL;DR: In this article, the role of large firms in generating income inequality is examined, and the authors consider the growth in the use of asset-based rewards for senior executives, combined with continued use of sala...
Abstract: We examine the role of large firms in generating income inequality. Specifically, we consider the growth in the use of asset-based rewards for senior executives, combined with continued use of sala...
TL;DR: In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, temporality and futurity have become key terms in efforts to rethink finance as mentioned in this paper, and the debate has revolved around the question of how knowledge pra...
Abstract: In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, temporality and futurity have become key terms in efforts to rethink finance. Thus far, the debate has revolved around the question of how knowledge pra...
TL;DR: The importance of tenure security for development and wellbeing is often reduced to questions about how titles can guarantee rights, overlooking the contested and layered nature of property rights as discussed by the authors, where the authors focus on the role of titles in the provision of services.
Abstract: The importance of tenure security for development and wellbeing is often reduced to questions about how titles can guarantee rights, overlooking the contested and layered nature of property rights ...
TL;DR: Horse racing has existed in India since the British established race clubs across the continent as places for socializing and legal gambling as mentioned in this paper, and betting on horses in Delhi is a form of speculat...
Abstract: Horse racing has existed in India since the British established race clubs across the continent as places for socializing and legal gambling. Today, betting on horses in Delhi is a form of speculat...
TL;DR: In this paper, financial education initiatives for children and teenagers in Germany advance a specific kind of financial agency, which identifies independence with dependence on money circuits, and adulthood with r....
Abstract: Financial education initiatives for children and teenagers in Germany advance a specific kind of financial agency. It identifies independence with dependence on money circuits, and adulthood with r...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine a unique case of economic influence on policy: use of cost-effectiveness in public policy, and examine the relationship between economic ideas and public policy.
Abstract: The relationship between economic ideas and public policy is a growing area of sociological inquiry. This paper examines a unique case of economic influence on policy: use of cost-effectiveness ana...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how transnational food supply chains are governed and secured through examining the 2013 horsemeat scandal, during which processed beef products were adulterated with horseflesh.
Abstract: This paper explores how transnational food supply chains are governed and secured through examining the 2013 horsemeat scandal, during which processed beef products were adulterated with horseflesh...
TL;DR: The authors review Zuboff's book, a vast work of contemporary history, social psychology and political economy, and argue that a contingent configuration of digital technologies, fuelled by teleological technologies, can be seen as the future of social psychology.
Abstract: We review Zuboff’s book, a vast work of contemporary history, social psychology and political economy. Zuboff argues that a contingent configuration of digital technologies, fuelled by teleological...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the ambiguities in the analysis of transactions of biological material and highlight the ambiguity of the moral economy of exchange or the political economy of production.
Abstract: Scholarly analyses of transactions of biological material are often focused on either the moral economy of exchange or the political economy of production. In this paper, I highlight the ambiguitie...
TL;DR: Incentives are so widespread and seemingly so insignificant that we might simply take them at face value and fail to ask how we can account for their emergence and proliferation as mentioned in this paper, which is the case in many cases.
Abstract: Incentives are so widespread and seemingly so insignificant that we might simply take them at face value and fail to ask how we can account for their emergence and proliferation. Building upon Fouc...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of the lack of a suitable solution for the problem by using the concept of "social media" and "social networks".
Abstract: 본 연구는 한국 사회의 세대 간 사회이동 및 교육기회의 이동성 추세에 관한 최근 연구들을 종합적으로 검토해 봄으로써 실제로 한국에서 기회의 불평등이 최근 출생 코호트에서 강화되고 있는지에 대한 해답을 탐색했다. 핵심적인 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 직업의 세대 간 상관성의 경우 그것이 최근 출생 코호트로 오면서 증가했다는 경험적 증거는 찾아보기 어렵다. 다수의 연구들이 직업의 상관성이 큰 변화 없이 유지되고 있음을 보여주는 가운데 비교적 최근에 발표된 연구는 오히려 최근 출생 코호트로 옮겨오면서 아버지와 아들의 계급적 상관성이 약화되는 경향을 밝히고 있다. 한국에서 세대간 소득탄력성의 경우도 다른 서구 국가들에 비해 상대적으로 낮은 편이며, 시기에 따른 경향성도 보이지 않았다. 둘째, 최종 학력 취득에서 교육기회의 불평등이 증가했다는 뚜렷한 증거 역시 발견하기 어려웠다. 재학 중인 학생들의 학업성취도 추세의 경우 아직 충분한 경험적 연구가 축적되지 않았다. 이와 관련해 사교육, 문화자본, 사회자본에 대한 연구들이 주는 가족배경 격차 추세에 대한 함의를 검토했다. 셋째, 몇몇 연구들은 세대 간 이동성에서 교육을 통한 경로의 중요성에 비해 교육과 관계없이 형성되는 부모와 자녀 지위 간 연계 경로의 중요성이 점차 커지고 있음을 시사하고 있다. 결론에서는 한국 사회의 이동성 추세의 경험적 양상과 기존 사회적 인식, 담론 간 괴리를 설명할 수 있는 가설적 설명들을 제시했다.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified the main problems and prospects for the formation of reputation management by Ukrainian organizations (to increase the level of their competition) and identified current issues of reputation Management.
Abstract: The purpose of the article is to identify the main problems and prospects for the formation of reputation management by Ukrainian organizations (to increase the level of their competition). Reputational resource tends to increase in value along with economic and other resources. Therefore, the topic is relevant. This is especially true of Ukrainian enterprises. They make little use of reputation opportunities. Reputation analysis is carried out in the work. The article is devoted to the essence of reputation management of organizations. The article identifies current issues of reputation management. Particular attention is paid to the formation of reputation management by Ukrainian organizations and enterprises. The factors influencing the reputation of organizations are analyzed. The influence of reputation on the level of competitiveness of the enterprise, products is investigated. Types of reputation are analyzed. The classification of types of reputation has been expanded and supplemented. Classification features «environment of influence», «stakeholders» are allocated. The existing classification features have been supplemented with additional species. The existing classification features have been supplemented with additional species. The existing approaches to the formation of the reputation management process are studied. It is proposed to use the following components in the system of reputation management: planning (strategy formation, analysis, etc.), organization (building an organizational structure of reputation management), motivation (stimulating the formation of a positive reputation), control, regulation of reputation. Indicators of the level of efficiency of the organization are given. These include the social effect, the value of the organization's securities, the level of competitiveness of the organization, the level of competitiveness of products / services. It is established that reputation management must be continuous. An effective reputation management system will help increase them. A positive reputation will contribute to the effective development of enterprises.
TL;DR: Weber famously invoked ideal types as an analytic device with which to measure empirical reality against some hyper-rational fabrication as mentioned in this paper, and non-professional (lay) investors appear to agree with this.
Abstract: Weber famously invoked ‘ideal types’ as an analytic device with which to measure empirical reality against some hyper-rational fabrication. Case in point: non-professional (lay) investors appear to...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the main problems of the tourism sphere of Ukraine, which arouses as a result of the introduction of measures to overcome the coronavirus pandemic in the world and in Ukraine in particular.
Abstract: The article examines the main problems of the tourism sphere of Ukraine, which arouses as a result of the introduction of measures to overcome the coronavirus pandemic in the world and in Ukraine in particular. Using the experience of other countries and international recommendations, measures for intersectoral cooperation in the context of increased epidemic risks are proposed. The article reveals the peculiarities of the development of the tourist sphere of Ukraine in the conditions of increased epidemic risks. Modern tendencies of functioning of the tourist sphere of the country are investigated. The tourism sector is suffering on a global scale due to the implementation of measures to overcome the coronavirus pandemic and the uncertainty of further development of the situation. According to various scenarios, in 2020 the volume of international tourist arrivals is expected to fall by 58-78% compared to last year. According to experts, the recovery of demand to the level of 2019 will take at least two years. According to experts, the sphere of tourist services of the corona crisis period will be characterized by giving consumers priority in terms of: choice of shorter rest periods, predominance of individual movement and individual accommodation, choice of health, sea and rural tourism. The existing problems of development of the enterprises of the sphere of tourism in the conditions of the increased epidemic risks are defined. The main directions of overcoming the crisis phenomena for the enterprises of the tourist sphere and their achievement of sustainable functioning are substantiated. Restrictions on travel imposed by states to prevent the spread of COVID-19, falling incomes due to the economic crisis and recession potentially increase the demand for leisure within Ukraine. Domestic tourism is the main driver of preservation and revival of the industry in the face of anti-epidemic restrictions. It needs to prepare regional strategies for stimulating the development of tourism and recreation in post-quarantine conditions in attractive regions for domestic tourism, in all regions without exception to ensure the revision of the relevant sections in the approved regional development strategies taking into account the tasks.