Christian Olaf Christiansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 279063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Olaf Christiansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian Olaf |
| FAMILY NAME | Christiansen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIANSEN C O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8949-9092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Organic intellectuals from modern India
This article revisits the intellectual history of inequality in the thinking of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967). Both were pivotal figures in the intellectual history of inequality in colonial and postcolonial India. Yet little work has been done to systematically juxtapose the two and their thinking on inequality. This article offers a first comparison, arguing that their ideas on inequality can be seen…
Talking About Global Inequality
The Mainstreaming of Global Inequality, 1980-2020
This article maps the conceptual history of global inequality from its marginal status in the 1980s, its minute mainstreaming within research and globalization discourse from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s, until its popularization, politicization, and "economization" in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, recession, and the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century in 2014. Asking when, why, and how global inequality became…
The Janus-face of interdependence
Writing ‘global’ intellectual histories involves historicising the transnational lives of key concepts. In this article, we argue that interdependence became a key concept in global inequality debates of the 1970–1980s. While ideas about interstate dependency have a long history, interdependence saw a remarkable breakthrough from the late 1960s onwards, partly in tandem with a liberal global egalitarianism, calling for the moral duties of ‘rich n…
Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World
How have intellectuals from around the world thought about inequality in the world? In light of the call for a less Eurocentric history of ideas as well as recent debates about global inequality, this article introduces a special issue on the global intellectual history of an unequal world. The issue supplements the already available scholarship in at least four ways: it delves further into other kinds of inequalities than first and foremost econ…
The Making of Global Inequality
This article is a history of postwar discourse on an unequal world. This discourse was profoundly shaped by new influences: quantitative data and an expanding inequality research infrastructure, the "birth of development," decolonization, human rights, the global Cold War, and theories of the world as one integrated global system. Examining academic journal articles written in English, this article traces the emergence of global inequality in the…
M ark H. R ose . Market Rules
The 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed it remain among the defining issues of our time. Their consequences were as deep as they were grave, ushering in, in many countries, new policies of austerity and the cutting down of public expenditures, with devastating consequences for those who had the least means to begin with. Catching many as a surprise event, it soon sparked an explosive academic interest in understanding…
History of Economic Rationalities
Sailing a Ship through Stormy Waters Requires a Compass
Whereas many scholars have concluded that neoliberalism as well as deregulation was among the key causes of the financial crisis of 2008, much less work has been done on particular reforms and the specific political rhetoric which justified them. This is a comparative study of the political justification of financial deregulation, examining two spectacular cases: the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999 and the passing of the Commodity Futures Modern…
Progressive Business
Today, an increasing number of researchers, citizens, politicians, civil organizations, activists, and corporations are concerned with questions such as: Can the financial rationality of firms be constrained by social concerns? Can the market be reformed 'from within'? Starting in the post-Civil War period of American industrialization, the book traces the emergence of ideas about reforming businesses in the American context, and the ideological …
Virtual money
The Road to Market Society
Book review of Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets . London: Penguin Group, 2012, 244 pp., $16.46. ISBN 9781846144714 (hbk)
Contracting, bonding, or exploiting? Reactions to the rise of organizational society in mid-twentieth-century USA
The rise of ‘organizational society’ in the USA was accompanied by major ideological battles concerning corporation–employee relationships. Management theorists such as Barnard, Drucker, and Mayo invoked a new ideal of a ‘bond’ between organizations and employees. Critics faulted this new ideal of a bond for being paternalistic, oppressive, and manipulative. William H. Whyte, Jr. stressed that the proper way to understand the relationship between…
Lost in translation
The New Spirit of Capitalism relied heavily upon the theory of organizational decline and the concepts of exit and voice developed by Albert O. Hirschman in his seminal essay, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty from 1970. As a result, capitalism and its spirit were thought within an organizational paradigm. However, the integration of Hirschman's theory was not unproblematic, since voice was excluded from the level of organizations, resulting in a failure …
The Making of Global Inequality
This article is a history of postwar discourse on an unequal world. This discourse was profoundly shaped by new influences: quantitative data and an expanding inequality research infrastructure, the "birth of development," decolonization, human rights, the global Cold War, and theories of the world as one integrated global system. Examining academic journal articles written in English, this article traces the emergence of global inequality in the…
Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World
How have intellectuals from around the world thought about inequality in the world? In light of the call for a less Eurocentric history of ideas as well as recent debates about global inequality, this article introduces a special issue on the global intellectual history of an unequal world. The issue supplements the already available scholarship in at least four ways: it delves further into other kinds of inequalities than first and foremost econ…
Lost in translation
The New Spirit of Capitalism relied heavily upon the theory of organizational decline and the concepts of exit and voice developed by Albert O. Hirschman in his seminal essay, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty from 1970. As a result, capitalism and its spirit were thought within an organizational paradigm. However, the integration of Hirschman's theory was not unproblematic, since voice was excluded from the level of organizations, resulting in a failure …
Contracting, bonding, or exploiting? Reactions to the rise of organizational society in mid-twentieth-century USA
The rise of ‘organizational society’ in the USA was accompanied by major ideological battles concerning corporation–employee relationships. Management theorists such as Barnard, Drucker, and Mayo invoked a new ideal of a ‘bond’ between organizations and employees. Critics faulted this new ideal of a bond for being paternalistic, oppressive, and manipulative. William H. Whyte, Jr. stressed that the proper way to understand the relationship between…
Virtual money
The Road to Market Society
Book review of Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets . London: Penguin Group, 2012, 244 pp., $16.46. ISBN 9781846144714 (hbk)
Progressive Business
Today, an increasing number of researchers, citizens, politicians, civil organizations, activists, and corporations are concerned with questions such as: Can the financial rationality of firms be constrained by social concerns? Can the market be reformed 'from within'? Starting in the post-Civil War period of American industrialization, the book traces the emergence of ideas about reforming businesses in the American context, and the ideological …
History of Economic Rationalities
Sailing a Ship through Stormy Waters Requires a Compass
Whereas many scholars have concluded that neoliberalism as well as deregulation was among the key causes of the financial crisis of 2008, much less work has been done on particular reforms and the specific political rhetoric which justified them. This is a comparative study of the political justification of financial deregulation, examining two spectacular cases: the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999 and the passing of the Commodity Futures Modern…
M ark H. R ose . Market Rules
The 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed it remain among the defining issues of our time. Their consequences were as deep as they were grave, ushering in, in many countries, new policies of austerity and the cutting down of public expenditures, with devastating consequences for those who had the least means to begin with. Catching many as a surprise event, it soon sparked an explosive academic interest in understanding…
The Making of Global Inequality
This article is a history of postwar discourse on an unequal world. This discourse was profoundly shaped by new influences: quantitative data and an expanding inequality research infrastructure, the "birth of development," decolonization, human rights, the global Cold War, and theories of the world as one integrated global system. Examining academic journal articles written in English, this article traces the emergence of global inequality in the…
The Janus-face of interdependence
Writing ‘global’ intellectual histories involves historicising the transnational lives of key concepts. In this article, we argue that interdependence became a key concept in global inequality debates of the 1970–1980s. While ideas about interstate dependency have a long history, interdependence saw a remarkable breakthrough from the late 1960s onwards, partly in tandem with a liberal global egalitarianism, calling for the moral duties of ‘rich n…
Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World
How have intellectuals from around the world thought about inequality in the world? In light of the call for a less Eurocentric history of ideas as well as recent debates about global inequality, this article introduces a special issue on the global intellectual history of an unequal world. The issue supplements the already available scholarship in at least four ways: it delves further into other kinds of inequalities than first and foremost econ…
Talking About Global Inequality
The Mainstreaming of Global Inequality, 1980-2020
This article maps the conceptual history of global inequality from its marginal status in the 1980s, its minute mainstreaming within research and globalization discourse from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s, until its popularization, politicization, and "economization" in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, recession, and the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century in 2014. Asking when, why, and how global inequality became…
Organic intellectuals from modern India
This article revisits the intellectual history of inequality in the thinking of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967). Both were pivotal figures in the intellectual history of inequality in colonial and postcolonial India. Yet little work has been done to systematically juxtapose the two and their thinking on inequality. This article offers a first comparison, arguing that their ideas on inequality can be seen…
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