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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.

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Evaluation as a situational or a universal good? Why evaluability assessment for evaluation systems is a good idea, what it might look like in practice, and why it is not fashionable

TL;DR: Evaluability assessment is a diagnostic and prescriptive tool which helps evaluators determine whether evaluation is appropriate in a given situation Thus, evaluation is understood as a situational good.

What is the radical imagination? A Special Issue

TL;DR: This introductory editorial highlights the key themes, challenges and questions that animate this Special Issue of Affinities, delineate a brief genealogy of the radical imagination in theory and practice and locate the work of the contributors to this Special issue in this genealogy.
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Thatcher's Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town

TL;DR: Ortolano as mentioned in this paper argued that the new towns comprised the spatial dimension of the welfare state, arguing that public sector actors begrudgingly accommodated the alternative priorities of market liberalism.
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Enacting Music Scenes: Mobility, Locality and Cultural Production

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a mobile, transient and fluid approach to localized (cultural) economies by drawing on the case of Santiago's experimental music scene, in Chile.
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A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia

TL;DR: In this paper, a translation of the poem "The Pleasures of Philosophy" is presented, with a discussion of concrete rules and abstract machines in the context of art and philosophy.
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The Economic Institutions of Capitalism

Paolo Leon
TL;DR: The 2008 crash has left all the established economic doctrines - equilibrium models, real business cycles, disequilibria models - in disarray as discussed by the authors, and a good viewpoint to take bearings anew lies in comparing the post-Great Depression institutions with those emerging from Thatcher and Reagan's economic policies: deregulation, exogenous vs. endoge- nous money, shadow banking vs. Volcker's Rule.
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The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord
TL;DR: The Society of the Spectacle as mentioned in this paper is one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s, and it has been widely used in the literature since.
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Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

TL;DR: Relevance Lost as mentioned in this paper is an overview of the evolution of management accounting in American business, from textile mills in the 1880s and the giant railroad, steel, and retail corporations, to today's environment of global competition and computer-automated manufacturers.