SER on Tap

SER on Tap

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SER on Tap episodes

  • Episode 10: Producerist Populist Attitudes and Electoral Support for Populism in the USA and Western Europe, with Oscar Mazzoleni

    Oscar Mazzoleni (University of Lausanne) talks with us about the article he co-authored with Gilles Ivaldi (CNRS CEVIPOF), “Producerist populist attitudes and electoral support for populism in the USA and Western Europe.” We discuss polarization, the politics of resentment, and producerism as an ideological underpinning of populism on both the right and the left.

    11 min
  • Episode 9: Doctor, How Much Does It Cost? with Eliza Brown

    Eliza Brown (University of California, Berkeley) speaks with us about her article "Doctor, how much does it cost?" which examines how the tension in healthcare between care and self-interest produces varied moral practices and values. In this episode, we discuss how moral understandings of market exchanges differ according to organizational context and class stratification – and how these structures intersect to produce distinct meanings and practices.

    13 min
  • Episode 8: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Taxation, with Ruth Braunstein

    Ruth Braunstein (University of Connecticut) talks with us about her article, "Toward a cultural sociology of taxation," which brings a relational sociology approach to bear on a subject that is typically the preserve of fiscal sociology. In this episode, we discuss scaling up relational economic sociology, battles over framing debates on taxation, and how all this overlaps with the sociology of religion.

    https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae017

    13 min
  • Episode 7: Small Money, Large Profits, with Barbara Brandl

    Barbara Brandl (Goethe University Frankfurt) speaks with us about the article she co-authored alongside David Hengsbach and Guadalupe Moreno, titled "Small money, large profits: how the cashless revolution aggravates social inequality." We discuss the Global North's gradual replacement of public infrastructure with private infrastructure and the resulting potential to aggravate social inequality.

    https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad071

    14 min
  • Episode 5: Varieties of Wealth, with Jens Beckert
    Jens Beckert (MPIfG) talks with us about his article “Varieties of wealth: toward a comparative sociology of wealth inequality,” which examines two cases of high-wealth inequality to illustrate how different aspects of wealth can be more important, more powerful, or more tolerable according to institutional and cultural contexts.
    https://academic.oup.com/ser/article/22/2/475/7497086
    13 min
  • Episode 2: Jonathan Mijs
    Jonathan Mijs (Boston University) discusses his article “The paradox of inequality: income inequality and belief in meritocracy go hand in hand,” which explores the baffling paradox by which countries faced with growing inequality experience less popular concern regarding inequality than do more egalitarian nations.
    12 min
  • Episode 1: David Hope and Julian Limberg
    David Hope (King’s College London) and Julian Limberg (King’s College London) discuss their article “The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich”. The article considers the dramatic decline in taxes on the rich across advanced democracies over the past 50 years and seeks to estimate the average effects of major tax reforms on income inequality, economic growth, and unemployment.
    13 min

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Hosted by Jacob Bromberg, SER on Tap is a podcast produced by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics to expand on and draw out implications of recent articles published in Socio-Economic…