A discussion about a backfired tweet from Chase bank, which seemed to blame people's economic problems on irresponsible spending. The Tweet was picked up by Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose earlier academic findings are among the strongest refutation of the views underlying Chase's tweet.
Michelle Silver is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society. She recently published Retirement and Discontents: Why We Won't Stop Working, Even If We Can (Columbia University).
Joseph Nathan Cohen co-hosts The Annex and directs the Sociocast Project. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, Queens College. He wrote Financial Crisis in American Households: The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class (2017, Praeger) and co-authored Global Capitalism: A Sociological Perspective (2010, Polity). Twitter: @jncohen
Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation(2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman
Gabriel discusses Sam Quinones’ Dreamland and the opioid epidemic.
We discuss a recent argument between the Washington Post’s Robert Samuel and sociologist David Brady.
Today, we talk to Seth Abrutyn from the University of British Columbia. Seth teaches graduate classical theory in UBC's sociology program, and recently caught...
