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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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Ulrich Bröckling, The entrepreneurial self. Fabricating a new type of subject, Sage Publications
Review Essay Commodity Studies and Commodity Fetishism I: Trading Down
Henry Bernstein,Liam Campling +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review essay on current work in commodity studies considers, at some length, an important and distinctive text by Peter Gibbon and Stefano Ponte, which draws on a unique set of case studies of African export commodities, using (and developing) the framework of Global Value Chain (GVC) theory, of American provenance, together with elements of the mostly French literature on quality conventions.
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Labour out of Control: The Political Economy of Capitalist and Ethical Organizations:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the literature dealing with the relationship between these two organizational types and argue that the manner in which scholars approach a central characteristic of these two types of organizations is different.
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Bourgeois dignity: why economics can't explain the modern world
TL;DR: McCloskey as discussed by the authors argues that return on investment, utility, cost, empiricism, market interaction, efficiency, growth, cycles, uncertainty provide powerful vocabularies of motive, means of assessing actions or behaviors, explanatory rationalities, and are the foundations of a disciplinary language that most people working in/for Western capitalism recognize and experience.
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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.