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Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2011

Early in 2011, we received a surprising invitation from the Financial Times Lexicon. A reader had suggested that an entry on differential accumulation be added to the Lexicon, and the online content developer asked us if we would be willing to write it. Our first thought was that this must have...

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Capital accumulation : fiction and reality

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2015

don’t speak about it in isolation. They refer to finance not in and of itself, but in relation to the so-called real … capital stock. The recent crisis, they argue, happened not because of finance as such, but due to a mismatch between financial … and real capital. The world of finance, they complain, has deviated from and distorted the real world of accumulation. And …

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Dominant Capital and the New Wars

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Journal of World-Systems Research 10 (2004) 2, pp. 254-327

popular belief in neoliberal globalization, peace dividends, fiscal conservatism and sound finance that dominated the 1980s … proletarianization, on green-field investment and, particularly, on mergers and acquisitions. A depth regime builds on redistribution …

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Inflation and Accumulation. The Case of Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Science & Society 64 (2000) 3, pp. 274-309

The paper offers a new theoretical framework for linking inflation and accumulation, with the Israeli experience as a case study. The focal point is the process of differential accumulation by the largest core firms. The theory of differential accumulation suggests that the relative power of...

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Regimes of Differential Accumulation: Mergers, Stagflation and the Logic of Globalization

Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of International Political Economy 8 (2001) 2, pp. 226-274

-field investment, internal depth via cost-cutting, and external depth through stagflation. The complex relationships between these …-field investment, contributing to the stagnation tendency of modern capitalism. (3) The wave-like pattern of mergers and acquisitions …

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Going Global: Differential Accumulation and the Great U-turn in South Africa and Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 33 (2001) 1, pp. 21-55

This paper offers a new theoretical approach for comparing the current political-economic U-turns in South Africa and Israel. Our principal focus is on a revised notion of capital, emphasizing the central role of differential accumulation by dominant capital groups. We further distinguish...

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From War Profits to Peace Dividends: The New Political Economy of Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Capital & Class (1996) 60, pp. 61-94

Since the late 1980s, Israel has been undergoing a profound transformation, characterized by reconciliation with its Arab neighbours and attempts to reintegrate into the regional economy, a transition from a militarized economy to open markets, and a decline of the collectivist ethos in favour...

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Differential Accumulation: Toward a New Political Economy of Capital

Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of International Political Economy 5 (1998) 2, pp. 169-217

Existing theories of capital, neo-classical as well as Marxist, are anchored in the material sphere of production and consumption. This article offers a new analytical framework for capital as a crystallization of power. The relative nature of power requires accumulation to be measured in...

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Putting the State In Its Place: US Foreign Policy and Differential Accumulation in Middle-East “Energy Conflicts”

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of International Political Economy 3 (1996) 4, pp. 608-661

This is the second in a series of two articles looking into the interaction between differential capital accumulation and Middle East “energy conflicts.” Examining the historical record since the late 1960s, we find US policies to have been increasingly consistent with the coinciding...

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Military Spending and Differential Accumulation: A New Approach to the Political Economy of Armament – The Case of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 28 (1996) 1, pp. 51-95

This paper offers a new approach to the political economy of armament, focusing on the relationship between military spending and differential accumulation in mature capitalist economies. Applied to the “model” case of Israel, our analysis suggests that the militarization of Israel’s...

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