Weekly Reading (02/04/2018)
Selections from the Web:
Labor and Economics:
- Barry Eichengreen: Two Myths About Automation
- David Dayen: Cities Scrambling to Attract Amazon Because It “Creates Jobs” Are Being Sold a Lie
- Donald MaKenzie: Short Cuts: Wall Street’s Fear Gauge
- Naomi Elegant: The Precarious Life of a Penn Graduate Student
Policing:
- Adam Johnson: 6 Elements of Police Spin: An Object Lesson in Copspeak
- Lizzie Manno: Philadelphia City Council Votes to End Cash Bail
- Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth: Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science?
- Michael Harriot: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
History:
- Miles Macallister: The Scandinavians ‘Hitchhiked’ Their Way to the Boons of Empire
- Susan Pedersen: One-Man Ministry (Review of Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick)
Tech:
- Alex Sayf Cummings: Amazon on the Chattahoochee: Why Atlanta Might Win the HQ2 Battle
- Jordan Pearson: Inside the World of the ‘Bitcoin Carnivores’
- Jillian Foley: The Glorious Gridiron Cryptowars Imagined by a 1970s NSA Employee
- Nitasha Tiku: The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google
Politics:
- Ruy Teixeira: The Math Is Clear: Democrats Need to Win More Working-Class White Votes
- Shuja Haider: Postmodernism Did Not Take Place: On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life
- Susan Delacourt: Are Leap Movement and Advisers to Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn Crashing the NDP’s Party?
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Ellen Ullman: Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology (2017)
- Ursula K. Le Guin: The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Christopher R. W. Dietrich: “Oil Power and Economic Theologies: The United States and the Third World in the Wake of the Energy Crisis,” Diplomatic History, (2016)
- Jennifer Bair: “Corporations at the United Nations: Echoes of the New International Economic Order?,” Humanity, (2015)
- Johanna Bockman : “Socialist Globalization against Capitalist Neocolonialism: The Economic Ideas behind the New International Economic Order,” Humanity, (2015)
- Joseph Morgan Hodge: “Writing the History of Development (Part 1: The First Wave),” Humanity, (2015)
- Linda Risso: “NATO and the Environment: The Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society,” Contemporary European History, (2016)
- Michel Godet: “Future Memories,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, (2010)