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- Larry Fink on the rising dollar
- On corporate power
- Discretionary spending under Democratic and Republican Administrations, Reagan-Obama
- The Keller-Greenwald debate
- Obama should not lend his name to any entitlement cuts
- Two more links on section 1002 of the “default prevention act of 2013”
- The “Default Prevention Act of 2013” makes a February debt-ceiling crisis unlikely
- Debt-ceiling deal appears imminent
- Three days till debt-ceiling breach
- Four days till debt-ceiling breach
- A discussion on in-depth interviews. What are they good for?
- Cautiously disagreeing with Yochai Benkler on NSA data collection
- The business elite is letting GOP put domestic economic sabotage on the negotiating table
- The budget is the actual issue at stake
- GOP lacks intellectual capital
- We now better account for intellectual property and intangible assets
- What is at stake and why GOP is irresponsible to put debt-default on the table
- Ryan Lizza details the GOP “suicide caucus”
- On the political sociology of Samuel Huntington
- COLUMN: debt-default politics must end
- COLUMN: The GOP domestic vision
- COLUMN: US averts war, Russia gives up an ally
- Why analysis of an act must include an analysis from the point of view of the actor
- Preparing an intellectual property report
- Ethnographic, sociology-of-knowledge evidence of economic optimism
- NSA scandal is about property, not privacy (part two)
- NSA scandal is about property, not privacy
- Economic optimism mounts: Krugman, Klein, and Harding
- Why changes to intellectual property valuation matter
- More intellectual property wealth will soon be accounted for
- sociology destroyed the notion of a market
- The economics of intellectual property: the problem of valuation
- COLUMN: Obama refashions War on Terror
- the problem of middle-class spending power: a few comments
- COLUMN: Tornadoes devastate Oklahoma
- calls for impeachment and war pick up
- Politics, data, capital
- Bartlett on fiscal stimulus when faced with a “liquidity trap”
- COLUMN: fiscal contraction amid monetary expansion
- In defense of Sherkat?
- A second post on Reinhart-Rogoff
- Sherkat and the Regnerus study
- Reinhart-Rogoff: a structure of knowledge goes down
- A second post on the comments around Biernacki’s Reinventing Evidence
- analyzing symbolic data: a sociology web debate
- qualitative sociology as economically valuable
- advanced capitalism and the methodological imperative of symbolic data
- Wednesday at the Financial Times Op-ed page
- better social design: the future of sociology publishing is open-access and on the internet
- Contemporary social theory updates Parsons’ AGIL model
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Category Archives: money and finance
The economic problem of our time
The economic problem of our time (in the US context) is how to get money moving…
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The future of the dollar
“The reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar, for good and for ill, will erode neither quickly nor dramatically. But change it will.” Barry Eichengreen, writing in The American Interest, on the future of the dollar as the world’s reserve … Continue reading
Federal Reserve as “liquidity provider of last resort”
Bernanke’s recent comments on “the financial crisis and the Federal Reserve’s response in its capacity as liquidity provider of last resort” can be found here. It is an interesting term: “liquidity provider of last resort.” It is the same thing in … Continue reading
Greta Krippner’s ‘Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance’
Greta Krippner’s recent book Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance operates within a question as old as sociology itself: what is modern about modernization? The advent of capitalism and the industrial revolution were the backdrop for … Continue reading
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