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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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There Is No Such Thing as “the Economy”. Economic Phenomena Analysed from a Field-Theoretical Perspective
TL;DR: The authors argue for a strong field-theoretical program inspired by Pierre Bourdieu to research economic life as an integral part of different social forms, and sketch the main theoretical concepts and heuristics used to analyse economic life from a field perspective.
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The tragedy of citizen deliberation – two cases of participatory technology assessment
TL;DR: The paper contributes to more effective pTA by proposing a new ‘guiding vision’ for citizen deliberations, anticipating more influential policy pathways and proposing new skills for pTA.
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Business, politics and ideology: Neoliberalism and capitalist class formation in Argentina and Chile (1990 – 2014)
TL;DR: The authors explored the connection between neoliberalism and the capitalist classes in Argentina and Chile and investigated the legacies of neoliberal reform for capitalist class formation, asking why capitalists were able to achieve a hegemonic class position through reform in Chile though not in Argentina.
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Will He Be There?: Mediating malaria, immobilizing science.
TL;DR: It is argued that the interplay of mobility and immobility offers a way to rethink the value of research within interlocking circulations of capital, science, mosquitoes and men.
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Diversity as neoliberal governmentality: Towards a new sociological genealogy of religion
TL;DR: In this article, the connections between neoliberal capitalism and religion are explored by tracing the roots of these connections as they evolved during the second part of the 20th century i.e., during the Second World War.
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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
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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.