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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.
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.
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
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
Thomas Oatley (Tulane University) talks with us about his article, "The dual economy, climate change, and the polarization of American politics," which illustrates how the knowledge economy and the carbon economy are at odds with one another, and how this polarizes contemporary American politics.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad052
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