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The New Spirit of Capitalism
Luc Boltanski,Eve Chiapello +1 more
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Trafficking in Transnational Brands: The New “Broadway-Style” Musical
TL;DR: In a theatre world increasingly dominated by multinational corporations, in which brand-name companies make the rounds of international festivals and multilingual performances are bankrolled by consortia of state-supported theatres, the national identity of theatrical productions is becoming more and more difficult to decide as discussed by the authors.
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Re-inventing the Social Contract:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that new contractualism cannot be explained simply as an expansion of the market at the expense of the state, and that the illusion of the contract has real consequences on how societies are governed and how they relate to each other.
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The principalship, autonomy, and after
TL;DR: In this paper, the ISSPP reinforces the centrality of the principalship and the importance of the office of the principal as a key component in the conceptualisation of the social order of schooling.
Kosmoikos: The search for location in a networked age
TL;DR: From fantasies of architectural utopias in the 1960s, to contemporary interface technologies that fetishize the idea of "the local", the authors considers a variety of spatial practices as attempts to address the philosophical question of where we are and in relation to which scale.
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Education, neoliberalism and cultural citizenship: Living in 'X Factor' Britain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the idea of cultural citizenship in the context of current debates within neoliberalism and argue that the notion of the knowledge economy displaces earlier criti cies.
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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
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
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.