For the purpose of my MSc thesis (2021), I have conducted a research project in order to reveal how cultural dimensions theorised by Hofstede affect the retrospective sociotropic economic voting. It was a nice topic that could result in an exploratory research project in the near future (if I decide to go further on my…
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Undoubtfully, Edward Said was the one of the most important thinker of late 20th and early 21st centuries. His main contributions generally accumulate on the analysis of orientalism. In his book, the Orientalism, he tries to answer questions related to that analysis, for example why the West needs to analyse, or let’s say inspect, the…
Untitled work by Barbara Kruger (1987). Source
In his work consisted his collection of notes, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx explains how labour estranged in capitalist system, how that effects people dramatically, and how this alienation can be annulled (or abolished). In my essay, I would like to clarify what kind of…
A photo of Friedrich August von Hayek (N.D.). Source
Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian economist who lived in the 20th century, was one of the most annotated intellectual wrote his ideas mainly related to the classical liberal school. He critiqued various thinkers, from range to contractarians to socialists. He had ideas not only about economics, but…
Cover of the book named "Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) ", written by George C. Comninel. Source: goodreads.com
Karl Marx, who was a philosopher lived in the 19th century, has influenced the whole political, economic and sociological theories with his ideas stemmed from his historical materialism approach on…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel delivering a lecture at the Berlin University in 1828 (sketch after nature and lithograph by Franz Kugler). Source: Wikipedia
In his book, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel (1991) articulates three stages of the movement of the Idea (or the Spirit); the Family, the Civil Society and the State. State resembles…
The Portrait of Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel by Jakob Schlesinger (1831). Source: Wikipedia
G. W. F. Hegel, a German philosopher who lived between late-18th and early-19th century, has affected Western Philosophy with his major contribution of the system of thought, the Dialectic. If we read Hegelian philosophy and the Dialectic, we can understand that he was…
Food Anatomy © By Julia Rothman, Source
In their book, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason Moore (2017) concluded seven important things which commodified by the capitalism. In the chapter called “Cheap Food” they conclude that the ’transformation of food systems’ is main thing that had been processed, by…
A sketch from Harry Shearer on John Stuart Mill’s Harm Principle, made by Cognitive for BBC. Source
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell’s dystopian novel, there is a society ruled by a totalitarian party regime headed by “The Big Brother”, and every individual is screened by the government. With this massive monitoring, the government detects who thinks against…
During the 2007-2009 period, big financial capitals of the globe had witnessed and dragged into a massive and dramatic recession. In these years, many of financial systems faced with enormously slumps and significant number of banks and investment institutions were bankrupted or were rescued by bailout programs issued by governments. Many of investment management firms…