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Are Asian Economies Converging Towards American Capitalism?

About: Lechevalier, La Grande transformation du capitalisme japonais, Sciences Po, 2011 and Uemura & Isogai, Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms, Routledge, 2011

by Bernard Thomann & translated by John Zvesper, 23 May 2012

Should East Asia’s economic takeoff and the new hegemony of capitalism in that region be interpreted as parts of a convergence towards a global model based on Anglosphere economic liberalism, or (...)

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Liberty, Security, Flexibility

About: Bénédicte Zimmermann, Ce que travailler veut dire, Economica.

by Elodie Béthoux & translated by Susannah Dale, 16 February 2012

Sociologist Bénédicte Zimmerman’s empirical studies of employer groups and participative management reveals how the tension that exists between the individual and the collective is being reshaped in (...)

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Get Yourself Into Debt!

About: L. Hyman, Debtor Nation. The History of America in Red Ink, Princeton University Press.

by Nicolas Delalande, 4 October 2011

The crisis currently affecting the United States is all the more serious when we consider how deep its roots go. The historian Louis Hyman shows how debt lodged itself at the heart of American (...)

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Karl Polanyi, the Market and Socialism

by Arnault Skornicki, 22 October 2009

Is society sentenced to endure the law of the market? The publication of a number of essays by economist Karl Polanyi hitherto unpublished in French gives us the opportunity to re-discover (...)

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Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History

Lecture by Nancy Fraser

by Nicolas Duvoux, 25 August 2009

In this lecture, Nancy Fraser situates the feminist’s movement in relation to three moments in the history of capitalism. First, the movement’s beginnings are located in the context of (...)

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The Lost Cause of Democracy

About: S. Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes , Verso.

by Jérôme Melançon, 18 December 2008

Žižek strongly advocates an overturning of capitalism through a daily revolution; the latter can only become possible if our perception of society and its constructs can be changed to achieve a (...)

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