Dirk Philipsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 391824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Philipsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Philipsen |
| SIGNATURE | PHILIPSEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7636-9478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us
A rapidly growing body of research suggests that modern economies find themselves at existential crossroads: both prosperity and survival are a function of consumption-fueled economic growth. Prosperity seemingly depends on it; survival is made increasingly impossible by it. Economists measure economic growth by what is generally recognized as a deeply flawed yet still hegemonic economic performance indicator—GDP. This paper suggests that growth …
Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19
This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system that embeds market values within social and cultural lifeways. It penetrates deep into the insecurities and inequalities that have endured for several centuries, through liberalism for sure, and compounded ineluctably into these contemporary times. Market fundamentalism is tho…
The tragedy of the private: Theft, property, and the loss of a commons
In a world of escalating climate crisis, metastasizing market logic, structural racism, growing inequality, and a global pandemic, this essay argues, the tragedy is not one of the commons, but one of the private. The relentless capitalist focus on self-interest rather than common good, on efficiency rather than resilience, on more rather than better, on the private over the public, has brought societies and ecosystems alike to the breaking point.…
Geoffrey Hosking. Trust: A History
This is a book most historians would not dare to write: vast in scope, covering an enormous interdisciplinary literature, and ranging across time, space, and cultures. It provides opportunities to discern larger patterns and to discuss trust in both its universality and its historically specific manifestations. Perhaps inevitably, it is, at times, hard to follow, and the conclusions do not always satisfy. The strength of the book lies in its abil…
Enduring shortcomings
Overview "…One of Those Evils That Will Be Very Difficult to Correct": The Permanence of Race in North America
Dirk Philipsen, Overview "...One of Those Evils That Will Be Very Difficult to Correct": The Permanence of Race in North America, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Spring, 2003), pp. 190-192
Investment, Obsession, and Denial: The Ideology of Race in the American Mind
This essay seeks to shed light on historical formation of identities and racialized thinking in America. Using a sociohistorical approach, article explores many ways in which ideologies are ingrained in thinking and actions of both and Americans today. Arguably, despite much progress, society as a whole-Black and White, economically, culturally, politically-has grown so completely apart by a continuously crippling divide that what was once labori…
After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History
Test the West: American History through the Lens of German Survey Texts
The extent of American influence on postwar German affairs is arguably unprecedented in the history of relations between modern nation-states. From preeminent occupying force after WorldWar II to guardian, cultural exporter, and largest trading and investment partner, the United States played a role in postwar (West) German society that has led chroniclers of German affairs to speak of the United States as "the midwife of German democracy" and to…
We Were the People: Voices from East Germany's Revolutionary Autumn of 1989
We Were the People: Voices from East Germany's Revolutionary Autumn of 1989
Test the West: American History through the Lens of German Survey Texts
The extent of American influence on postwar German affairs is arguably unprecedented in the history of relations between modern nation-states. From preeminent occupying force after WorldWar II to guardian, cultural exporter, and largest trading and investment partner, the United States played a role in postwar (West) German society that has led chroniclers of German affairs to speak of the United States as "the midwife of German democracy" and to…
After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History
Overview "…One of Those Evils That Will Be Very Difficult to Correct": The Permanence of Race in North America
Dirk Philipsen, Overview "...One of Those Evils That Will Be Very Difficult to Correct": The Permanence of Race in North America, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Spring, 2003), pp. 190-192
Investment, Obsession, and Denial: The Ideology of Race in the American Mind
This essay seeks to shed light on historical formation of identities and racialized thinking in America. Using a sociohistorical approach, article explores many ways in which ideologies are ingrained in thinking and actions of both and Americans today. Arguably, despite much progress, society as a whole-Black and White, economically, culturally, politically-has grown so completely apart by a continuously crippling divide that what was once labori…
Geoffrey Hosking. Trust: A History
This is a book most historians would not dare to write: vast in scope, covering an enormous interdisciplinary literature, and ranging across time, space, and cultures. It provides opportunities to discern larger patterns and to discuss trust in both its universality and its historically specific manifestations. Perhaps inevitably, it is, at times, hard to follow, and the conclusions do not always satisfy. The strength of the book lies in its abil…
Enduring shortcomings
Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19
This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system that embeds market values within social and cultural lifeways. It penetrates deep into the insecurities and inequalities that have endured for several centuries, through liberalism for sure, and compounded ineluctably into these contemporary times. Market fundamentalism is tho…
The tragedy of the private: Theft, property, and the loss of a commons
In a world of escalating climate crisis, metastasizing market logic, structural racism, growing inequality, and a global pandemic, this essay argues, the tragedy is not one of the commons, but one of the private. The relentless capitalist focus on self-interest rather than common good, on efficiency rather than resilience, on more rather than better, on the private over the public, has brought societies and ecosystems alike to the breaking point.…
What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us
A rapidly growing body of research suggests that modern economies find themselves at existential crossroads: both prosperity and survival are a function of consumption-fueled economic growth. Prosperity seemingly depends on it; survival is made increasingly impossible by it. Economists measure economic growth by what is generally recognized as a deeply flawed yet still hegemonic economic performance indicator—GDP. This paper suggests that growth …
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)