Claus Dierksmeier (Stonehill): Work: From a Materialistic to a Humanistic Account of Human Labor. From the latest issue of Economic Sociology, Timothy J. Sinclair (Warwick): Credit Rating Agencies and the Global Financial Crisis. From State of Nature, Kenneth Couesbouc on the binary production of wealth; and is there life after capitalism? From NYRB, John Cassidy on the economy: Why they failed. What good is Wall Street? John Cassidy on how much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless. From Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, a review of Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance by James Heartfield; and a review of The Metaphysics of Capitalism by Andrea Micocci. A review of All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera. Is economics a science? It would be, if it weren’t for the people. The first chapter from How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It by Darrell Duffie. The Broken Machine: A review essay on the story of the Great Recession. John Bellamy Foster on the financialization of accumulation. The Man Who Shattered Our Economy: Former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill, whose push for radical deregulation of the banking industry did so much to create our financial crisis, seems to be faring quite well in our shattered economy. A review of The Structural Crisis of Capital by Istvan Meszaros. A review of The Enigma of Capital by David Harvey (and more and more). Capitalism and alienation: Capitalism creates a society that robs most people of their creative potential. A review of The New Economics of True Wealth by Juliet Schor. A review of God & Money: The Moral Challenge of Capitalism by Charles McDaniel. The introduction to Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy by Viviana A. Zelizer.
