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 ArticleThe Visual Du Jour – The Thatcher Legacy
By SocProf. The Guardian has a great series of graphs trying to summarize the impact of the Thatcher years. [Disclaimer: I loathed her.] This one is my “favorite”: As the article notes, “As Britain...
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 ArticleBook Review – The Killing Fields of Inequality
Göran Therborn published The Killing Fields of Inequality as what looks like an expanded version of a 2009 article on the same subject. And contrary to Picketty’s massive economic volume, Therborn’s...
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