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This is the first full account of Mark Granovetter?s ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined. The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same…
If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and sacr…
Here, Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W.E.B Du Bois' intellectual and political legacy. Gilroy considers the ways that consumerism has diverted African Americans' political and social aspirations.
The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet-the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government? On November 26, 1791, George Washington conven…
