💰 Commodification

Critical examinations of how markets reduce everything — art, love, identity, nature — into products for sale, and what is lost when value means only price.

What Money Can't Buy

by Michael J. Sandel • 2012

When everything is up for sale, the price isn't the only thing we lose.

3.93

14k+

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🏛️ Neoliberalism 🏟️ Public Goods ⚖️ Social Inequality 👥 Communitarianism

What Money Can't Buy

When everything is up for sale, the price isn't the only thing we lose.

by Michael J. Sandel 2012

3.93

14k+ ratings

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🏛️ Neoliberalism 🏟️ Public Goods ⚖️ Social Inequality 👥 Communitarianism

Minima Moralia

by Theodor W. Adorno • 1951

A moral life is impossible in the modern world: even our private kindness is secretly deformed.

4.24

5k+

🏛️ Critical Theory 📺 Mass Culture 💰 Late Capitalism 🏭 Modern Alienation 🔃 Dialectical Method

Minima Moralia

A moral life is impossible in the modern world: even our private kindness is secretly deformed.

by Theodor W. Adorno 1951

4.24

5k+ ratings

🏛️ Critical Theory 📺 Mass Culture 💰 Late Capitalism 🏭 Modern Alienation 🔃 Dialectical Method

Captains Of Consciousness

by Stuart Ewen • 1977

Your desires were not your own. They were manufactured to pacify a restless industrial workforce.

4.10

229

📺 Advertising History 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🕹️ Social Control 🧠 Consumer Psychology 🌍 Cultural Imperialism

Captains Of Consciousness

Your desires were not your own. They were manufactured to pacify a restless industrial workforce.

by Stuart Ewen 1977

4.10

229 ratings

📺 Advertising History 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🕹️ Social Control 🧠 Consumer Psychology 🌍 Cultural Imperialism

The Power of Market Fundamentalism

by Fred L. Block • 2014

The self-regulating market was always a fiction. Enforcing it consumes the society that created it.

4.34

🏛️ Political Economy 📊 Economic Sociology 🚫 Market Fundamentalism 🛡️ Social Protection 📖 Economic Thought

The Power of Market Fundamentalism

The self-regulating market was always a fiction. Enforcing it consumes the society that created it.

by Fred L. Block 2014

4.34

67 ratings

🏛️ Political Economy 📊 Economic Sociology 🚫 Market Fundamentalism 🛡️ Social Protection 📖 Economic Thought

Wild Nights

by Benjamin Reiss • 2017

What you call normal sleep is a 200-year invention, built by factories, colonialism, and the whip.

3.43

203

🛏️ Sleep History 🏥 Medicalization 🏛️ Colonial Medicine ⚖️ Biopolitics 🏭 Industrial Time

Wild Nights

What you call normal sleep is a 200-year invention, built by factories, colonialism, and the whip.

by Benjamin Reiss 2017

3.43

203 ratings

🛏️ Sleep History 🏥 Medicalization 🏛️ Colonial Medicine ⚖️ Biopolitics 🏭 Industrial Time

Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

by Karl Polanyi • 1971

The market system we take for granted is a 200-year anomaly, built on three dangerous fictions.

4.00

🌍 Economic Anthropology 💸 Capitalism Critique 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔄 Non-Market Exchange 🏙️ Market Society

Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

The market system we take for granted is a 200-year anomaly, built on three dangerous fictions.

by Karl Polanyi 1971

4.00

23 ratings

🌍 Economic Anthropology 💸 Capitalism Critique 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔄 Non-Market Exchange 🏙️ Market Society

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

by Gareth Dale • 2016

Polanyi didn't want a friendlier market. He wanted democracy to rule the economy outright.

3.75

📖 Intellectual History 📊 Political Economy 🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Market Critique 🌍 Economic Anthropology

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

Polanyi didn't want a friendlier market. He wanted democracy to rule the economy outright.

by Gareth Dale 2016

3.75

8 ratings

📖 Intellectual History 📊 Political Economy 🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Market Critique 🌍 Economic Anthropology

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