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The article is a contribution to the evolving field of competition research. More precisely our paper provides a comprehensive typology of the different ways competitization is and has been studied across different disciplines and research programs. The article goes beyond a classical literature...
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What is "social capital"? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social...
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In this striking new book it is argued that the outraged attitudes of neoliberals and many of those who work in financial institutions with regard to the size of public deficits are far from being genuine and merely mask a desire to dismantle social programs and reduce the size of government.The...
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This interview was commissioned in October 2019 for a special issue on 'Accumulation and Politics: Approaches and Concepts' to be published by the Revue de la régulation. We submitted the text in March 2020, only to learn two months later that it won't be published. The problem, we were...
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. Within financial markets, corporate performance is continuously assessed, in a process that disciplines management to achieve … expected financial results, with consequences throughout corporate management. Findings We find that this phenomenon has … implications for labor management, resulting in the intensification of labor processes and the adoption of insecure forms of …
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Seitdem das Fernsehen Politik macht, werden Einwände und Kritik gegen Regierende über den Bildschirm kommuniziert - die Bürger*innen sind in passives Zuschauen gedrängt. Der Aufstieg der sozialen Medien dagegen verspricht neue Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe. Doch wird der öffentliche Raum...
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Neoliberalism eviscerated the value-sharing ethos of the post-war Golden Age (1945-73), seeking to maintain social cohesion in civil society by 'managing the discontent of the losers'. This involved reconciling working households to the realities of the neoliberal labour market by means of...
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The interface of political economy with arts and literature has become dominated by a particular image: capital's Grinch-like theft of the future. But this image overlooks the peculiar temporal structure of neoliberalism, which renews its broken promises by making up ever more excuses for the...
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Israel's ongoing crisis - or 'judicial coup' in popular parlance - has elicited two opposite responses. The first comes from global rating agencies, economists and investment strategists who see Israel's country risk rising. The opposite reaction, by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his acolytes,...
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Aim: The major aim of the current essay is to argue that neoliberal capitalism, by virtue of its core tenets, has significantly increased the risk of disease outbreaks like SARS-Covid-2. Conclusion/Finding: The dominant socio-political-economic system across the industrialized world is...
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