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social class as the accumulation of advantage

[...] Social classes, we contend, are fundamentally associated with the stored historical baggage and the accumulation of advantages over time.

—p.46 Contesting Class Boundaries (23) by Mike Savage
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jobs as an end

[...] jobs become a quantitative output (politicians only talk about them in terms of faceless numbers) rather than a qualitative or substantive input that might serve some wider social and existential role. In other words, a job is no longer a means to achieve other things but a (dead) end in …

—p.265 The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation Conclusion: A Marginal Model of Nothingness (256) by Peter Fleming
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the Global South has had its own global crisis

None of this would be a problem if economics was confined to the endowed chairs of the academy, esoteric journal articles and boring conferences. But the lexicon of neoclassical economics is the leading language game in (post-)neoliberal societies of control. And this economisation of life in gener…

—p.262 Conclusion: A Marginal Model of Nothingness (256) by Peter Fleming