Economics Disciplines

Nature and content of Cultural Studies and Cultural Studies in Business.

Defining cultural studies and cultural studies on business.
Cultural studies on business as a process, relations between cultural studies in business with other social and human disciplines.
 

Genealogy of Economic Thought (Aristotle, Adam Smith, Enlightenment, Protestant Ethic).

Development of economic thoughts until the 18 century. Relations between labor and capital and the role of humans on economy and development.

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Idealism vs materialism, Idealism vs etatism, chains of illusion (Marx vs Reiffeisen and Marx vs Freud)

Comparative analysis of Marx and Reiffeissen Work. 
Comparative analysis of Marx and Freud work
Beyond chains of illusion.

 

Global Political Economy

Changing relation between politics and economy. Global economy policies, and the role of large, medium and small countries / economies in a changing word.

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Alternative Economics

Institutional, Evolutionary, Social, Heterodox, Cognitive, Behavioral, Sharing, Circular, Knowledge Economy.

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Socio-Anthropological Disciplines

Technology, Abstraction and the Spectacular Society 
Society of the spectacle, simulacrum theories, abstraction of the reality.
 

Economic Anthropology
The politics of the gift, general and restricted economy, sacrificial economy, sacred and profane, energy economics, the use/misuse of energy as an accursed share of the society.

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General Systems Theory, Process Philosophy and Economy Open and closed system, general milieu, cycles of capitalism, instability and equilibrium, mechanism and holism, feedback loop, noise theory. The future of politic, economic and social systems.

 

Ethics for the Sustainable Economy. 
Human rights, sustainable development, natural resources use and standards.

Excesses/Limits of Economy Gender, Affect and Power Feminism and economy, economy without identity, “nomos” without “oikos”, new capitalist subjectivities, emotion and affect in economy and politics

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Characterizing Disciplines 

Humans information processing
Activities under which humans in a society organize their knowledge, human computing and collective intelligience, incentives for participation, social networks, social media and information ecosystems evolution

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Knowledge economy
Knowledge economy, human capital as product and as productive asset.

 

Social cohesion dimensions supporting business and economy development
Social cohesion dimensions, achieving and maintaining social cohesion, how social cohesion affects business and economic development.

 

Life quality indicators and cultural studies in business
Life quality indicators and how cultural studies in business affect and improve human’s life quality indicators.

 

The future of CSB studies
Space for future Cultural Studies in Business, interdisciplinary studies and SCB, opportunities for students.
 

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