Economic Sociology » loans http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology Brooke Harrington explores the social underpinnings of money and markets. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:21:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Copyright 2007-2015 Economic Sociology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Catastrophe Haiku Challenge! http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology/2008/12/11/catastrophe-haiku-contest/ http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology/2008/12/11/catastrophe-haiku-contest/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:57:14 +0000 http://economicsociology.wordpress.com/?p=177 For all three regular readers of this blog (and yes, I’m counting myself), I’ve decided to revive my Olde Tyme classroom haiku tradition. I used to offer this for extra credit to my students in the big “Organizational Sociology” and “Money and Society” lecture courses I taught at Brown University. I can no longer offer extra credit as an incentive for participation, but I hope my esteem will be a decent substitute.

To get things started, I offer my own modest entry, which attempts to boil the current economic crisis into 17 syllables:

No credit–no loans.

No loans means no capital.

No capitalism.

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