Fashion, Male Beauty and the ‘Men’s Dress Reform Party’
Simon Carter on the Men’s Dress Reform Party (MDRP), an overlooked 1930s lobbying group seeking to change male fashion in order to make men more ‘beautiful’ Read More
Are markets matching Callon and Roth?
Jose Ossandon reflects on overlaps between work on ‘market design’, associated in part with economist Alvin Roth, and that on ‘markets as calculative collective devices’, developed by Michel Callon and colleagues Read More
Debunking economics?
An extract from Will Davies’ excellent review of the recently published Economists and the Powerful, by Norbert Häring & Niall Douglas Read More
Observing Observers Observing Observers
David Stark introduces three recent papers that observe observers observing others, including exploring how processes of valuation are shaped by an actor’s location in ‘attention networks’ Read More
Loaded Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Money and the Global Financial Crisis
New collection, edited by David Bennett, debating “the links between psychology, money and economic crashes”. Read More
New podcasts from Esudio de la Economia
Three new podcast-interviews from Estudios de la Economia, featuring Timothy Mitchell, Gil Eyal and Daniel Beunza. Read More
