State and culture in sustainability transformations: structural power, democracy, and the promise of a Marcusian cultural politics of critical meaning-making by Marit Hammond

“…Yet, according to historical-institutionalist state theory, the imperatives of the liberal-capitalist democratic welfare state give rise to a “glass ceiling” of transformation that limits prospects for such systemic change beyond quality-of-life improvements that remain consistent with liberal capitalism. Exploring the potential of cultural meaning-making to break this glass ceiling, I draw on various strands of critical theory to identify the operation of ideological power at the level of both the state and the cultural realm as what creates the glass ceiling of transformation. …”
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Review of Inclusive Growth and other Alternatives to Confront Authoritarian Populism by Saleamlak Getahun

“…Our world has gone through myriad forms of administrative and economic ideological eras, some of which helped positively and others contributed regressively. …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…Dracula has fulfilled the ambition of Dracula: it has colonized and enthralled the industrial and post-industrial Western world, achieved the integration into modern free-market capitalism that its namesake was unable to achieve. …”
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