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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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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.
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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.

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Nature on the Move: The Value and Circulation of Liquid Nature and the Emergence of Fictitious Conservation

TL;DR: The authors argue that the commodities created through capitalist conservation constitute a radically different type of capital, defined as value in process, with potentially fundamental implications for (neo or post) Marxist theory and conservation.
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Responsibilization and MNC–Stakeholder Engagement: Who Engages Whom in the Pharmaceutical Industry?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use Big Pharma as a case that bases arguments on extant literature as "authorities of prima facie evidence" to outline the industry-specific questions whilst questioning the existing answers.
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Alternative organizing in times of crisis: Resistance assemblages and socio-spatial solidarity:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on research conducted in Greece, where, during the last seven years, an acute socio-economic crisis has led to the emergence of a number of alternative organizational forms.
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Counter-commodification: The economy of contribution in the digital commons

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that those who are giving, sharing, and contributing for the benefit of humanity are supported by global policies that enable them to do so, because their gifts are not based on reciprocity and the obligation to return the gift.
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What Do Cities Have to Do with Democracy

TL;DR: The relationship between urban politics and the dynamics of democratization remains under-theorized and under-researched as discussed by the authors, and it is argued that this relationship can be usefully understood by drawing on lessons from avowedly normative styles of political theorizing, specifically post-Habermasian strands of critical theory.
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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

Paolo Leon
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

Guy Debord
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.