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Carbon Capitalism: Energy, Social Reproduction and World Order
October 3, 2015
ABSTRACT Modern civilization and the social reproduction of capitalism are bound inextricably with fossil fuel consumption. But as carbon energy resources become scarcer, what implications will this have for energy-intensive modes of life? Can renewable energy sustain high levels of accumulation? Or will we witness … Read more
Hager on Corporate Ownership of the Public Debt
July 11, 2015
ABSTRACT In various writings Karl Marx made references to an ‘aristocracy of finance’ in Western Europe and the United States that dominated ownership of the public debt. Drawing on original research, this article offers the first comprehensive analysis of public debt ownership within the US … Read more
Putting Power Back Into Growth Theory
June 29, 2015
ABSTRACT Neoclassical growth theory assumes that economic growth is an atomistic process in which changes in distribution play no role. Unfortunately, when this assumption is tested against real-world evidence, it is systematically violated. This paper argues that a reality-based growth theory must reject neoclassical principles … Read more
Malik on The Ontology of Finance: Price, Power, and the Arkhéderivative
June 24, 2015
FROM THE EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION In what promises to be a significant contribution to political economy, Malik seeks to combine the philosophical understanding of the nature and logic of the derivatives market with an analysis of the entirely novel, structurally-specific mode of capitalist power it expresses. … Read more
Free PDF: The Scientist and the Church
May 28, 2015
FROM THE BACK COVER The Scientist and the Church is a wide-ranging biography of research, showcasing Bichler and Nitzan’s attempts to break through the stifling dogmas of the academic church and chart a new scientific cosmology of capitalism. Central to the authors’ work is the … Read more
Fuel, Feed and the Corporate Restructuring of the Food Regime
February 19, 2015
The agrofuel boom has brought about some of the most significant transformations in the world food system in recent decades. A rich and diverse body of agrarian political economy research has emerged that elucidates the conflicts and redistributional shifts engendered by these transformations. However, less … Read more
Ascent of Giants: NAFTA, Corporate Power and the Growing Income Gap
February 12, 2015
There is growing awareness in Canada of how unequal society is becoming. It is probably most obvious in the gap between the compensation of Canada’s highest paid corporate executives and the average worker. The political pressure to do something to close this gap, for example by increasing taxes at … Read more
The Plutonomy of the 1%: Dominant Ownership and Conspicuous Consumption in the New Gilded Age
February 12, 2015
This article offers a study on the plutonomy of dominant owners and what their consumptive practices might tell us from the lens of the capital as power framework in IPE. I argue that the differential consumption of dominant owners is an important dimension of an … Read more