Book Review – Game Over
I do not follow sports, except for the World Cup of Soccer. And I especially do not follow American sports such as baseball, basketball or football (or as we Europeans call it, American football, since...
View Article“Cui Bono?”– The Essential Sociological Question
By SocProf. As I often tell my students, when examining social arrangements, always ask yourself, “who benefits the most from this?” That is, who accrues the most benefits, privileges and capital...
View ArticleNot Running Out Of Places To Hide Their Assets
By SocProf. So, today, we heard that records from the UK’s offshore banking industry had been leaked and therefore, a whole bunch of rich people had their practices and assets exposed: “Millions of...
View ArticleCorporate Welfare 101
By SocProf. Ha-Joon Chang explains, using the case of the failed Novartis patent in India, the horse meat scandal, and the Poundland scandal to the myriad of ways in which profits are social and...
View ArticleDavid Harvey on Monopoly Rent and Local Capitalism
This is the second one of my re-post on David Harvey’s Rebel Cities. In chapter 4 of Rebel Cities, Harvey focuses on what he takes to be the essence of capitalism: the establishment of monopoly rent....
View ArticleDavid Harvey – Rebel Cities
I have already posted quite a bit about David Harvey‘s Rebel Cities: From The Right to the City to the Urban Revolution: the fetishism of the local and the horizontal monopoly rent and local capitalism...
View ArticleBook Review – Intern Nation
[This is a repost from a review I posted when this book came out, but it seems like the topic of unpaid internship is making a comeback on the Internet, so, revisiting this might be useful.] Welcome...
View ArticleBad Graphic!
Seriously, am I the only one who sees a problem here? The 37% for biofuels is the only one that looks ok to me. But food crops are listed as 25% in the paragraph but on the chart, it looks more like...
View ArticleBook Review – Expulsions
Every new book by Saskia Sassen is always a small event for me, since she is one of my favorite contemporary sociologist. This one is no exception. Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global...
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