Tag: New Books in Economics
Richard E. Ocejo , October 29th, 2018
When we hear about the “future of work” today we tend to think about different forms of automation and artificial intelligence—technological innovations that will make some jobs easier…
Madhuri Karak , September 20th, 2018
Historically ubiquitous at least since the 15th century and integral to the rise and consolidation of capitalism, land dispossession has re-emerged as a hot button issue for governments,…
Eric Lemay , September 19th, 2018
The North American Free Trade Agreement—or NAFTA, as we Americans call it—is very much in the news of late, primarily because President Trump has decided to make good…
Erin Freas-Smith , March 26th, 2018
Professor George Paul Mieu‘s debut anthropological book, Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017), dives into the commodification of c… Visit New…
Hillary Kaell , October 24th, 2017
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere of human practice. In…
Nick Cheesman , August 29th, 2017
The relationship between religion and economic activity has attracted generations of scholars working in myriad settings. In recent years, many have turned to questions of how Islamic ideas…
Stephen Pimpare , August 6th, 2017
Labor markets are not what they used to be, as Ilana Gershon argues in Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work…
Nivedita Kar , July 28th, 2017
In The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order (Duke University Press, 2017) Bruce O’Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable…
Nick Cheesman , June 30th, 2017
Now and then we feature a book on New Books in Southeast Asian Studies whose author we ought to have had on the show some time ago. The…
Heath Brown , June 12th, 2017
Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein have written Going Public: A Guide for Social Scientists (University of Chicago Press, 2017). How can political scientists and other social scientists speak…
Nivedita Kar , May 2nd, 2017
How do you make taxpayers comply? Lotta Bjorklund Larsen‘s ethnography, Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency (Berghahn Books, 2017) offers a vivid, yet nuanced…
Ian Cook , November 23rd, 2016
How is India’s burgeoning IT industry reshaping the country? What types of capital is IT attracting and what formations does it take? How are software engineers managed? What…
Olga Breininger-Umetayeva , November 3rd, 2016
Ever since the accidental discovery of oil in Perm in 1929, the so-called “Second Baku” has been known to be an industrial hub as well as the home…
Stephen Pimpare , October 12th, 2016
How do new policies move from one city or country to another, and is there something distinct about how those transfers work in our perpetually accelerating and ever-more…
Carrie Figdor , February 22nd, 2016
The social sciences are about social entities – things like corporations and traffic jams, mobs and money, parents and war criminals. What is a social entity? What makes…
Dave O'Brien , November 19th, 2015
So many of our social questions are now the subject of analysis from economics. In A Richer Life: How Economics can Change the Way We Think and Feel (Penguin, 2015), Phillip…
Ian Cook , December 12th, 2014
Dream Zones: Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India (Pluto Press, 2014), the excellent new book by Jamie Cross, explores the ways in which dreams of the future shape…
Ian Cook , October 23rd, 2014
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 and small team of collaborators –……
Marshall Poe , July 17th, 2013
When I was an undergraduate, I was taught that merchants in early modern Western Europe were “proto-capitalists.” I was never quite sure what that meant. If it meant…