Creativity, sabotage and the management of risk and responsibility in freelance creative work Nitzan and Bichler theorise a dissonant relation of sabotage between power and creativity, business and industry. What they show is that the control of creative processes of production is not antithetical to their success. Rather, it is constitutive of this success in Continue Reading
Capital as Power and Freelance Creative Work 2
Capital as Power, risk-aversion and the avoidance of uncertainty Mainstream critiques of contemporary capitalism conducted in the wake of the Great Recession tend to indict a number of factors. Perceived short-termism. The dangerous compulsion to speculate. An attraction to growth for growth’s sake. The propensity towards the greedy and rapid accumulation of riches. But other Continue Reading
Can Capitalists Afford Recovery?
Vol. 1, No. 1 2013/2014 Jonthan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler (2014), ‘Can Capitalists Afford Recovery Three Views on Economic Policy in Times of Crisis‘ (PDF), Review of Capital as Power, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 110‐155. Please follow and like us:
Wal-Mart’s Power Trajectory: A Contribution to the Political Economy of the Firm
Joseph Baines (2014), ‘Wal-Mart’s Power Trajectory A Contribution to the Political Economy of the Firm‘ (PDF), Review of Capital as Power, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 79-109. Please follow and like us:
Capital as Power and Freelance Creative Work 1
Rhythms of Risk and Responsibility in Freelance Creative Work This series of blogs applies Nitzan and Bichler’s theory of capital as power to the empirical concern of freelance work in the creative industries. It reports some findings from a research project I conducted earlier this year. The research was part of a three month Short-Term Continue Reading
Francis, Bichler and Nitzan on The Buy-to-Build Indicator: An Exchange
The first part of the exchange is a short article by Joe Francis. The article provides new long-term estimates and an assessment of the buy-to-build indicator for the United States and Britain, going back to the end of the 19th century. The second part offers commentary by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. Citation: The Buy-to-Build Continue Reading