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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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Spirits of War: A Field Manual
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the form and content of United States (US) military doctrine through the study of three manuals: the joint US Army and Marine Corps' Counterinsurgency (COIN) Field Manual (FM 3-24) (2007), the US Army’s Stability Operations Field Manual(FM 3 -07) (2008), and the US Marine Corps’ Small Wars Manual (SWM) (1940).
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The Coolness of Capitalism Today
TL;DR: In this article, the reconciliation of cultural analysis with political economy in Marxist-inspired research on communications is discussed and the cool-capitalism thesis is outlined and illustrated with reference to Apple, the 'cool' corporation.
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Justifying the civic interest in sport: Boltanski and Thévenot, the six worlds of justification, and hosting the Olympic games
TL;DR: The work of as mentioned in this paper examines and applies the widely influential work of Boltanski and Thevenot in order to investigate and understand the political issues or disputes within sport, including Olympic bidding and hosting, and how key social actors or stakeholders (such as local and national governments, event sponsors, and sport bodies) draw on different worlds of justification in advocating the staging of these events.
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The Cultural Pragmatics of an Event: the Politicization of Local Activism in Russia
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the politicization of local activism in Russia caused by the 2011-12 protest movement "For Fair Elections" and proposes the theoretical model of an eventful social change at a micro level integrating different approaches such as pragmatic sociology, cultural sociology, eventful approach, and social movement studies.
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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.