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ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

How Human Rights Were Defanged from Any Truly Emancipatory Potential

Economics and Finance, Around the World, Politics

How Human Rights Were Defanged from Any Truly Emancipatory Potential

Neve Gordon

Is “human rights” merely another route toward economic plunder?

Confessions of a Cake Boy

Economics and Finance, Politics, Science & Technology

Confessions of a Cake Boy

Ramsey McGlazer

Another robot world is possible, one not built on hidden human labor and not dependent on damage to the soul

A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health

Economics and Finance, Politics

A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health

Mikkel Krause Frantzen

"Before we can throw bricks through windows, we need to be able to get out of bed." Mikkel Krause Frantzen on the politics of depression.

The Impossible Future of the Futures Market

Economics and Finance, Literary Criticism, SF

The Impossible Future of the Futures Market

John Rieder

A special issue of “New Centennial Review” tackles the metastases of finance capitalism.

Narrative Economies

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Narrative Economies

Chang-Min Yu

Chang-Min Yu reviews Joseph Jonghyun Jeon’s volume on Korean cinema and its rendering of global economic logics through film language and narrative.

Speculating on Our Own Time

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Speculating on Our Own Time

Jane Elliott

Lisa Adkins's "The Time of Money" offers a powerful account of the damage created by the time of money.

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Neoliberalism Against Democracy?: Wendy Brown’s “In the Ruins of Neoliberalism” and the Specter of Fascism

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Neoliberalism Against Democracy?: Wendy Brown’s “In the Ruins of Neoliberalism” and the Specter of Fascism

Martijn Konings

Martijn Konings reviews Wendy Brown's new book, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West."

Literary Economy: On “The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics”

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Literary Economy: On “The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics”

John Macintosh

John Macintosh reviews "The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics," edited by Michelle Chihara and Matt Seybold.

A Market Correction in the Humanities — What Are You Going to Do with That?

Education, Economics and Finance, Politics

A Market Correction in the Humanities — What Are You Going to Do with That?

Leigh Claire La Berge

What would it mean to have a genuinely public college or university, one free from both the debt state and its perverse double, philanthropy?

Bitcoin Dreams

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Bitcoin Dreams

Kevin Werbach

Kevin Werbach considers the pitfalls and the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain, explored in three recent publications.

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