When we hear about the “future of work” today we tend to think about different forms of automation and artificial intelligence—technological innovations …
Historically ubiquitous at least since the 15th century and integral to the rise and consolidation of capitalism, land dispossession has re-emerged as …
The North American Free Trade Agreement—or NAFTA, as we Americans call it—is very much in the news of late, primarily because President …
Professor George Paul Mieu‘s debut anthropological book, Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017), dives into …
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an …
The relationship between religion and economic activity has attracted generations of scholars working in myriad settings. In recent years, many have turned …
Labor markets are not what they used to be, as Ilana Gershon argues in Down and Out in the New Economy: How …
In The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order (Duke University Press, 2017) Bruce O’Neill explores how people cast aside …
Now and then we feature a book on New Books in Southeast Asian Studies whose author we ought to have had on …
Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein have written Going Public: A Guide for Social Scientists (University of Chicago Press, 2017). How can political …
How do you make taxpayers comply? Lotta Bjorklund Larsen‘s ethnography, Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency (Berghahn Books, …
How is India’s burgeoning IT industry reshaping the country? What types of capital is IT attracting and what formations does it take? …
Ever since the accidental discovery of oil in Perm in 1929, the so-called “Second Baku” has been known to be an industrial …
How do new policies move from one city or country to another, and is there something distinct about how those transfers work …
The social sciences are about social entities – things like corporations and traffic jams, mobs and money, parents and war criminals. What …
So many of our social questions are now the subject of analysis from economics. In A Richer Life: How Economics can Change the …
Dream Zones: Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India (Pluto Press, 2014), the excellent new book by Jamie Cross, explores the ways in …
Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy: Three Essays and an Atlas (Three Essay Collective, 2013) is a wonderful new book by Barbara Harriss-White …
When I was an undergraduate, I was taught that merchants in early modern Western Europe were “proto-capitalists.” I was never quite sure …