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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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An Anthropology of Ethics
TL;DR: Faubion as mentioned in this paper argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features, and further argues that the framework is in need of substantial revision to be of genuinely anthropological scope.
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Financialisation, Financial Literacy and Asset-Based Welfare
TL;DR: The authors examines New Labour's policies of asset-based welfare in the broader context of financialisation and argues that these are indicative of a mode of government concerned to alter individual outlooks and aspirations, and that asset based welfare, as developed by New Labour, is primarily a strategy for enhancing financial literacy.
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Integrative Economic Ethics: Foundations of a Civilized Market Economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of economic-ethics and its application in the context of rational economic activity and its relationship with human morality, including the notion of the moral point of view and economic rationality.
User-generated content, free labour and the cultural industries
TL;DR: The authors argue that the frequent pairing of the term "free labour" with the concept of exploitation is unconvincing and rather incoherent, at least as so far developed by the most-cited analysts.
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An End to Ideology
TL;DR: A trilogy of ideologies is haunting the modern world-the trilogy of Marxist socialism, unencumbered individualism, and fascist religiosity as discussed by the authors, and it is high time that researchers should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet these nursery tales with a manifesto of their own.
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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.