January 2023 – Capital As Power

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Bichler & Nitzan, ‘The Business of Strategic Sabotage’

Posted On January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 By Blair Fix

The Business of Strategic Sabotage SHIMSHON BICHLER and JONATHAN NITZAN January 2023 Abstract In a recent article, Nicolas D. Villarreal claims that our empirical analysis of the relation between business power and industrial sabotage in the United States is unpersuasive, if not deliberately misleading. Specifically, he argues that we cherry-pick specific data definitions and smoothing […]

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Proximity to Power: The oilpatch & Alberta’s major dailies

Posted On January 10, 2023 By Blair Fix

Regan Boychuk The bias of Alberta’s media in favour of our dominant industry is both pervasive and obvious to any careful observer. But how to prove it? Studies of media bias are notoriously difficult and significant media analysis can easily become a gargantuan and subjective task. This novel study uses a small sample size while […]