Articles rubric «New Books»
Why People Avoid the News and How (Not) to Combat It
Book review: Toff B., Palmer R., Nielsen R. K. (2023) Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism, New York: Columbia University Press. 288 p
How Beautiful Girls’ Labor Becomes Leisure: The Relational Work of Elite Parties Participants
Book review: Mears A. (2022) Ochen vazhnye lyudi. Status i krasota v mire elitnykh vecherinok [Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit], Moscow: AST (in Russian). 448 p.
Shall We Talk about This? Reflections on Angela Jones’s Book ‘Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry
Book Review: Jones A. (2020) Camming: Money, Power and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry, New York: New York University Press. 332 pp.
Over(re)load in IT Corporation: How and When Institutional Changes are Possible?
Book Review: Kelly E., Moen P. (2020). Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 336 p
What is the Secret to the Success of the US Economy?
Book Review: Usanov P. (2023) Amerikanskaya Modernizatsiya: Idei, lyudi, ekonomika [American Modernization: Ideas, People, Economy], St. Petersburg: EUPRESS. 288 p. (in Russian)
On Rumors and Their Debunking: How to Deal with Misinformation?
Book Review: Berinsky A. J. (2023) Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 240 p.
A Professional and His Work: Is Human Capital Important in Contemporary Russia?
Book Review: Tikhonova N. E., Latov Yu. V., Karavay A. V., Latova N. V., Slobodenuk E. D. (2023) Human Capital of Russian Professionals: Current State, Dynamics, Factors. Moscow: FCTAS RAS. 488 p. (in Russian)
“Performative Decisions in Conditions of Systemic Uncertainty”: How the US Federal Reserve Solved the Crisis During the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 Book Review: Abolafia M. Y. (2020) Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 224 p
The Sociology of the Financial Crisis: Banks, Mortgage-Backed Securities and the Modern Financial System
Book Review: Fligstein N. (2021) The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 315 p
The Concept of Touching Animals or Market?
Book Review: Krylova K. 2023. Handy Animal Market, Moscow: NLO. 408 p.