Abstract In the tradition of Classical Political Economy, empirical studies of labor values and prices ask whether labor-value vectors are close to observed market-price vectors. This paper examines the mechanisms that generate such proximity in input-output systems by uncovering the structural features of the linear production system determining the relevant distance. We use the recent […]
Continue ReadingBeyond Distribution: Everyday Life, Democratic Institutions, and the Limits of the Spectacle
Matías Brum1 Download PDF Abstract This essay argues that contemporary debates on political economy — however sophisticated in their treatment of inequality, ownership, and power — tend to neglect a decisive terrain of analysis: the organization of everyday life itself. Drawing on the Situationist International’s critique of the society of the spectacle, and applying it […]
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