{"id":429,"date":"2011-11-10T08:29:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-11-14T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:41:31","slug":"sociology-and-the-myths-of-financial-deregulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2011\/11\/10\/sociology-and-the-myths-of-financial-deregulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology and the Myths of Financial Deregulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffweintraub.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/alleged-success-of-financial.html\">provocative post<\/a> from this morning (or was it last night?) by the always-probing <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffweintraub.blogspot.com\/\">Jeff Weintraub<\/a>, inspired by Paul <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/08\/boom-for-whom\/\">Krugman&#8217;s recent reflections<\/a> on deregulation and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>I spot at least two great sociological contributions on display in this material:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Weintraub&#8217;s piece highlights the importance of empirical data. In this case, it seems to clearly undercut the main neoliberal assumptions and establishment claims about the virtues of deregulation (see the chart).<\/p>\n<p>(2) The reflections and critical insights from Krugman about the power and persistence of neoliberal orthodoxy&#8211;what Weintraub neatly characterizes as &#8220;a sociological analysis of hegemonic ideologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this provocative post from this morning (or was it last night?) by the always-probing Jeff Weintraub, inspired by Paul Krugman&#8217;s recent reflections on deregulation and the economy. I spot at least two great sociological contributions on display in this material: (1) Weintraub&#8217;s piece highlights the importance of empirical data. In this case, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}