Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) showed future generations the principles to understand industrialization as the birth of cultural and social phenomena connected to the division of labour. Furthermore, these authors combined contrasting elements such as...

This IEA publication deals head-on with a number of widely quoted myths about the market economy. In the case of the philosophical myths, such as the idea that economists believe that everybody is greedy, the author, Christopher Snowdon, carefully and entertainingly unpicks the misguided ideas...

Part 1: Ontology, Subject in General: A Theory of Cracks -- Sickness unto Excess -- Saint Paul's Notion of Split Subjectivity -- The Split Economy -- Part II: Particular Subject: Logic of the World of Finance -- The Fantasy of Harmony -- The Ethical Form of Finance -- Part III: Singular-Plural...

Living to work in the age of control -- Foucault's analyses of neoliberal governmentality : past investigations and present -- Knowledge work in the age of control -- The relation between work and thumos : a critical interrogation of what motivates the knowledge work compulsion -- The hinge...