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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 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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gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present. …
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level affect the HIV/AIDS incidence Khartoum state. The trends of the disease during 2007 have indicated that, the pandemic … pandemic is at increasing rate for both sexes males and females positive although the positive cases for males were greater …
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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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Analyses that gauge the relationship of partisanship to economic outcomes nearly always focus on the level of partisanship, and changes to it, at a time concurrent to the outcomes. However, partisanship at the time an institution was established may correspond more strongly to modern economic...
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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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