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Kirstin Munro. Ordinary Business: Mundane Economics and the Production of Everyday Life

John Jay College 524 West 59th Street

Kirstin Munro is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research.  Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, Munro's Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict, Complicity describes what happens when people make interventions into mundane and easy-to-overlook aspects of everyday life to bring the way […]

Clara Mattei: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

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"In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below. Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World […]