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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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Power, knowledge, and the subjects of privacy: understanding privacy as the ally of surveillance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that privacy, rather than serving only as a countermeasure against surveillance, can also be seen as its "partner-in-crime" in informational capitalism.
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Corporate social responsibility as cultural meaning management: a critique of the marketing of "ethical" bottled water.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on a major CSR strategy of a range of different companies that promise to provide drinking water for (what they name as) "poor African people" by way of Western consumers purchasing bottled water.
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How Silicon Valley sets time
TL;DR: It is concluded that electronic calendars are emblematic of a long-standing but mistaken belief, hegemonic in Silicon Valley, that automation will deliver us more time.
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Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy
TL;DR: The Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy as mentioned in this paper proposes a framework for analysing diverse economic systems, including the gift, collaborative and hybrid forms that coexist with more conventional capitalism in the new digital economy.
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Theories of the South: Limits and perspectives of an emergent movement in social sciences:
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the recent publications in the field of social sciences regarding the themes of "Southern theories", "theories from the south" and "epistemologies of the South" seeking to understand the limits and perspectives of this current wave of critique to the social sciences establishment.
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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.