The Notes Taken

Peter Gratton links to my review of Stiegler's For a New Critique of Political Economy and notes: I would think Devin would question ...

My review of Bernard Stiegler's For a New Critique of Political Economy is up on the CSCP website . I argue that Despite his claim of...

Occasional contributor and reader Joshua Kurdys has a post up on the value of developing natural gas drilling in rural Pennsylvania. In t...

The late comedian George Carlin died in June 2008. Carlin was funny but also very political in his content. In his interviews he pulled no p...

There's a great, and well-known, passage in Capital that marks the transition from the critique of the process of exchange to the critiq...

Chapter Six puts neoliberalism "on trial," and the central question is whether the implementation of neoliberalism has done what i...

While Chapter 4 of David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism outlines the uneven geographical implementation of neoliberalism, Ch...

Let's face it: the more prominent contemporary continental philosophers have not attempted  too many in-depth analyses of the functions ...

Neoliberalization being in the most general terms a re-distribution of wealth from the poor to the very rich, Harvey asks in Chapter 2 how e...

As I mentioned in the prefatory remarks for our reading of A Brief History of Neoliberalism , David Harvey sets out to analyze a central co...

One of the central difficulties late capitalism, Fredric Jameson writes in his Postmodernism , or , The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (...

As I mentioned before, I spent a few days teaching Marx to my Great Philosophers class. The first day was dedicated to a bit of intended dis...

Honestly, you've got to watch this graphic on the geography of a recession more than once to really take it in.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which created a legal separation of commercial banks and inv...

Today I've read over a few articles talking about how economists got the economy wrong. Each, in some way, try to cast light on the obsc...

Did the scientific revolution, the British or French enlightenment, or the introduction of new forms of proto-capitalism create the conditio...

Before I move on to topics other than economics, here is a video of University of Minnesota professor Karen Ho discussing the culture of Wal...

Paul Mason, Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed . London: Verso, 2009. I imagine that writing books on current affairs can be a perilou...