Michael Blim

(PhD Temple U 1987; Prof) Political economy, equality, labor, Southern Europe/Mediterranean ()

Michael Blim is the author of Equality and Economy: The Global Challenge (2005) and Made in Italy: Small-Scale Industrialization and Its Consequences (1990); he is co-editor with Frances Rothstein of Anthropology and the Global Factory (1992). He is currently writing a book about narratives of economic decline based upon new field research in Central Italy, as well as editing a reader, Equality and Global Justice, with Julian Brash. A second book on equality and global justice is also underway.

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Professor Blim is the author of a monthly column called "Below the Fold" at 3quarksdaily.com

Selected Books and Articles Available Online:

• 2005 Equality and Economy: The Global Challenge. AltaMira Press.
• Chapter I: The World We Live In
• Chapter II: The Consequences of Capitalism
• Chapter III: Values and Action
• Chapter IV: Valuing Equality
• Chapter V: Comparing Values
• Chapter VI:Putting Values into Economies
• Chapter VII:The Necessity to Choose
• Chapter VIII:Equality Among Nations
• Chapter IX:Equality and Disadvantage Abroad
• Chapter X:Equality at Home
• Chapter XI:A Good Enough Economy
• Chapter XII:Achieving Equality
  
  
• 2005 Ending World Poverty: Jeffrey Sachs’ Millenarian Vision
• 2004 A Death in the Family: Reflections on Economic Decline in an Industrial District (Paper given, Universita di Milano-Biccocca, May 23, 2004)
• Defining a Field, Describing a World: Jane and Peter Schneider and the Study of Modern Italy
• Gender Equality and Neoliberal Development Policies
• 1990 Made in Italy: Small-Scale Industrialization and its Consequences. Praeger Publishers.

Recent Syllabi

• 2008 Anthropology 70600: Reading Weber
• 2008 Anthropology 72200: Work and Labor
• 2008 Anthropology 81800: The Ethics/Politics of Global Equality
• 2007 Anthropology 71700: Key Debates in the Study of Capitalism
• 2006 Anthropology 70800: Economic Anthropology
• 2006 Anthropology 72200: Work, Labor, and Markets
• 2005 Anthropology 70600: Foundations of Anthropological Thought: Marx, Weber, and Durkheim
• 2005 Anthropology 70100: Core Course in Cultural Anthropology

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