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A new theory of capitalism is suggested. Its key moments and general logic are presented. This theory is based on the … competition" are admitted to be a functional norm of capitalism. Respectively, an equilibrium and "perfect competition" are …
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"As we look over the country today we see two classes of people. The excessively rich and the abject poor, and between them is a gulf ever deepening, ever widening, and the ranks of the poor are continually being recruited from a third class, the well-to-do, which class is rapidly disappearing...
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After the demise of “real” socialism and the decline of “western” socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social preference system oriented towards equality and social justice, to be implemented without systemic constraints in the organizational and institutional sense. At the same...
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commoditisation of labour power assuming the form of wage labour is specific to capitalism and the sole source of surplus value. This … paper, drawing from various strands of Marxian literature, argues that capitalism never existed in isolation in ‘pure’ and … signifies a confluence of separate processes, it overdetermines the existence and stability of capitalism by a complex …
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implications are (b) the emergence of a new social formation that may be called World Market Capitalism, which has a vastly …
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The transition of former socialist countries to capitalist economic system is modelled for the period between 1989 and 2007. The transition is entirely defined by three empirical parameters and the model describes only the evolution of real GDP per capita since the start of the disintegration of...
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capitalism far more than Anglo-American capitalism, and that it is likely to remain this way for the foreseeable future. …
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Why has capitalism prevailed as an institution in promoting economic growth despite its apparent unfairness? In this … paper, we argue that within a neoclassical framework, capitalism is fairer compared to collectivism due to the absence of a … capitalism at the aggregate level. Developing countries operating below the steady state may be better off cooperating as they …
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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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Conventional economics, both in its free enterprise and command versions sought to delink the science of economics from moral religious values and reduce it to a positive science. Now most economists feel an urgent need for objective analysis of the entire economic landscape with a view to...
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