B&B: The Administrative State | Automating Finance | Dependency Theory | Youth Unemployment | Spatial inequality | Fukuyama

2024-01-26 00:14:12

Very interesting readings and recorded talks on various topics in Economic Sociology and Political Economy:

— The best 5 books on The Administrative State recommended and discussed by Paul Tucker, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England and fellow at Harvard’s School of Government: The Administrative Process by Jason Landis (1938), The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States by Theodore Lowi (1979), Dilemmas of European Integration by Giandomenico Majone (2009), Law and Disagreement by Jeremy Waldron (1999), On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy by Philip Pettit (2012)

— The end of “The End of History”. Francis Fukuyama: “Socialism ought to come back” and “certain things Karl Marx said are turning out to be true”

— Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers and the Making of Electronic Markets by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is a rich history of automation in finance and a fine sociological analysis of the way it changed the lives and work of financial actors — a book review by M. Kerem Coban

— What is Dependency Theory? why it has been lost in debates on the global south, following being dominant in the 70s and 80s? and How it can help to formulate different answers to the problems developing countries face today — a talk by Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

— The spatial organization of urban inequality: A photographer Johnny Miller reveals the dramatic divide between rich and poor in South Africa, Mexico and India in his aerial, striking photos

— What is the relationship between youth unemployment, welfare and globalisations? How is the big rise in global youth unemployment since 2008 to be explained? What are the prospects for meeting the UN’s SDG goals on youth Employment by 2030? These questions are addressed by Nicola Yeates and Ross Fergussonreflecting on their book Global Youth Unemployment: History, Governance and Policy (2021)

— “Race, Colonialism, and the Global Economy”, a video lecture by Robbie Shilliaman author of Race and the Undeserving Poor: From Abolition to Brexit

— How foreign capital takes over Brazilian land and agribusiness — by Samuel Frederico

— “Inequality, Redistribution and Wage Progression”, a keynote talk by Richard Blundell at the 2023 Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys conference

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