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- Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruptionFebruary 12, 2021 3:30 pm
By Cassandra Jeffery1 and M. V. Ramana2 The “largest bribery, money-laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the people and the state of Ohio” came to light during an unexpected press conference …
- GameStop Capitalism: Wall Street vs. The Reddit Rally (Part 1)February 5, 2021 1:06 pm
Tim Di Muzio1 PDF version available here The phrase, ‘there’s a sucker born every minute’ is typically attributed to the American showman, P.T. Barnum and was made infamous since the …
- Economic Growth Theory … Bah Humbug!February 2, 2021 6:55 am
Originally published on Economics from the Top Down I’ve written a lot on this blog about the absurdity of marginal productivity theory. But I haven’t said much about the other …
BN Archives
- Dominant Capital is Much More Powerful Than You Thinkon February 14, 2021 at 9:06 pm
Dominant Capital is Much More Powerful Than You Think Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan. (2021). Real-World Economics Review Blog. February. (Article - Magazine; English).
- Big Money, Nuclear Subsidies, and Systemic Corruptionon February 12, 2021 at 11:11 pm
Big Money, Nuclear Subsidies, and Systemic Corruption Jeffery, Cassandra and Ramana, M. V.. (2021). Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 12 February. (Article - Magazine; English).
- Living the Good Life in a Non-Growth World. Investigating the Role of Hierarchyon February 10, 2021 at 11:38 pm
Living the Good Life in a Non-Growth World. Investigating the Role of Hierarchy Fix, Blair. (2021). No. 2021/2. February. pp. 1-55. (Article - Working Paper; English).
Publications
- Lucas, ‘Risking the earth, parts 1 and 2’February 9, 2021 10:00 am
ABSTRACT This two-part paper details the arguments and evidence that have been marshalled by both climate scientists and social scientists to critique the current procedures and methodologies deployed by the …
- Baines and Hager, ‘Commodity Traders in a Storm: Financialization, Corporate Power and Ecological Crisis’February 6, 2021 8:15 pm
ABSTRACT Commodity trading firms occupy a central position in global supply chains and their activities have been associated with financial instability, social upheaval and manifold forms of ecological devastation. This …
- McMahon, ‘Selling Hollywood to China’January 30, 2021 11:27 pm
ABSTRACT From the 1980s to the present, Hollywood’s major distributors have been able to redistribute U.S. theatrical attendance to the advantage of their biggest blockbusters and franchises. At the global …
Critical Mass Forum
- Reply To: Questions Regarding Mumford’s Theory of the Mega-MachineFebruary 24, 2021 12:35 pm
-sorry I haven’t gotten back to y’all yet! I’ve been doing my best to digest all of this! Jonathan, your daughter’s video on apoptosis was lovely, and I am definitely …
- Reply To: My PhD and CasPFebruary 24, 2021 11:39 am
Thank you DTC. That’s really helpful! One thing I’ve been meaning to ask: Does anyone know of any CasP research that combines quantitative analysis of differential accumulation with ethnographic methods? …
- Reply To: Exchange with Blair Fix on an ecological Kalecki/Goodwin modelFebruary 22, 2021 5:02 pm
Brian Kim wrote:So, my main question is this: do you think there can be a Kaleckian or a Goodwin model that accounts for energy and natural resources – or that …
- Reply To: Exchange with Blair Fix on an ecological Kalecki/Goodwin modelFebruary 22, 2021 11:54 am
Thank you for responding to my question! I have a question about the possibility of monetary/banking regulation regarding ecology. Right now, the most prominent (in a sense that it’s …
Working Papers
- 2021/02: Fix, ‘Living the good life in a non-growth world: Investigating the role of hierarchy’February 10, 2021 12:45 pm
ABSTRACT Humanity’s most pressing need is to learn how to live within our planet’s boundaries — something that likely means doing without economic growth. How, then, can we create a …
- 2021/01: Mouré, ‘Soft-wars: The Differential Trajectories of Google and Microsoft – a Capital as Power Analysis’February 10, 2021 12:26 pm
ABSTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE: According to the capital as power framework, pecuniary earnings, or profits, are a symbolic representation of the struggle for power between different capitalist groups. In this …
- 2020/06: Bichler & Nitzan, ‘The Limits of Capitalized Power. A 2020 U.S. Update’December 23, 2020 11:15 am
ABSTRACT Until the late 2000s, our work focused primarily on why capitalism should be understood as a mode of power. We argued that capital itself is a form of organized …
RECASP Journal
- Differential Taxation: The Case of American BankingSeptember 10, 2020 8:07 pm
Mladen Ostojić Abstract This paper maps an empirical history of corporate profit and taxation in the United States, with a special focus on the differential profit and taxation of banks …
- Growing Through SabotageSeptember 7, 2020 12:55 pm
Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan Abstract According to the theory of capital as power, capitalism, like any other mode of power, is born through sabotage and lives in chains — …
- The Autocatalytic Sprawl of Pseudorational MasteryOctober 8, 2019 6:04 pm
Ulf Martin Abstract According to Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler (2009), capital is not an economic quantity, but a mode of power. Their fundamental thesis could be summarized as follows: …