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This review essay considers recent humanistic scholarship, chiefly historical, that raises important questions about the place of the economic in a broader vision of social life. The essay is divided into three sections: 1. Liberal Protectionism covers an important book from Nicholas Mulder on the history of economic sanctions; 2. The Long History of Social Life discusses the recent contribution to social theory by David Graeber and David Wengrow; and 3. Inflation Retheorized calls for an economic critical response to recent developments in macroeconomic theories of inflation.

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This overview of recent work on the relationship between economics and culture takes the occasion of the Covid-19 pandemic to reflect on the urgency of creative thinking about biopolitics, in the process questioning the utility of apparent divisions between Foucauldian- and Marxist-derived approaches to the question of social reproduction.

AbstractThis chapter on economic criticism assesses two recent books on the changing state of global capitalism. It then moves to a consideration of recent debates over neoliberalism as a category for thinking the relationship between economics and culture, before turning to a critical assessment of recent public-choice scholarship on state capacity and religious toleration.

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This chapter on economic criticism begins with a review of recent scholarly contributions from historians that have shaped conversations on the relationship between economics and culture. A discussion of recent standout monographs in economic criticism follows; the chapter concludes by reviewing two recent anthologies of economic critical scholarship.