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The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman
No full textAs part of Acta Sociologica’s special issue on ‘Social investment in Action’ we bring an interview with Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman (EPB), author of the widely acclaimed Thinking like an Economist – How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2022) . Interviewer, Ditte Andersen (DA), probes Berman’s argument on how the economic style of reasoning is linked to specific values, especially the value of efficiency, in ways that crowd out other values (e.g. democratic participation, universal rights) and constrain social policy thinking in contemporary Western societies. Social investment policies epitomize the economic style of reasoning by orientating towards returns of public spending. In policy domains such as education, ‘social investment in action’ forefronts the value of returns (in the future) rather than, for example, the value of equality and universalism (in the present). The interview also turns attention to the role of sociologists in denaturalizing the taken for granted and aid the imagination of alternative futures
Ditte : towards the stars /
No full textSequel to: Ditte, daughter of man."A brief biography of the author": 2 p. at end.Mode of access: Internet
Ditte Menneskebarn – et monument over arbejderkvinden
No full textDet følgende er et uddrag af det kapitel i Ydes bog NEXØ. Martin Andersen Nexøs liv og værk (2019), som omhandler Ditte Menneskebarn I-V (1917-1921). Dér vil man kunne læse mere om romanværkets tilblivelse og modtagelse
Kammerat Nexø: – et kritisk debatessay om Martin Andersen Nexøs forhold til Sovjetunionen
No full textMartin Andersen Nexø er bedst kendt for sit forfatterskab med bøgerne om Pelle Erobreren og Ditte Menneskebarn. Mindre kendt er det, at han også aktivt støttede op om Sovjetunionen og sovjetkommunismen, hvilket resulterede i en politisk-ideologisk produktion. I dette essay kastes der et kritisk blik på Martin Andersen Nexøs politiske virke, arbejde for Sovjetunionen, og hvordan det bør indgå i den samlede vurdering af hans forfatterskab
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