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Capital Accumulation: Fiction and Reality

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Real-World Economics Review (2015) 72, pp. 47-68

– and therefore capitalism – thrive on "real investment" and the growth of "real capital". But as we shall see, in reality …

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Acumulación de capital: ficción y realidad

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 17 (2015) 33, pp. 45-71

¿Qué quieren decir los economistas cuando hablan de “acumulación de capital'? La respuesta es todo, menos clara. La opinión convencional es que hay dos tipos de capital: real y financiero, que deben guardar correspondencia y que, infortunadamente, la mayoría de las veces no se...

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Capital Accumulation: Fiction and Reality

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2015

investment’ and the growth of ‘real capital’. But as we shall see, in reality, the best time for capitalists is when their ‘real …

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From Olson to Veblen: The Stagflationary Rise of Distributional Coalitions

Nitzan, Jonathan - 1992

This essay deals with the relationship between stagflation and the process of restructuring. The literature dealing with the interaction of stagnation and inflation is invariably based on some explicit or implicit assumptions about economic structure, but there are very few writings which...

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Growing through Sabotage: Energizing Hierarchical Power

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2017

lives in chains – and yet everywhere we look we see it grow and expand. What explains this apparent puzzle of 'growth in the … midst of sabotage'? The answer, we argue, begins with the very meaning of ‘growth’. Whereas conventional political economy … equates the growth with a rising standard of living, we posit that much of this growth has nothing to do with livelihood as …

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Growing through Sabotage: Energizing Hierarchical Power

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Capital as Power 1 (2020) 5, pp. 1-78

lives in chains – and yet everywhere we look we see it grow and expand. What explains this apparent puzzle of ‘growth in the … midst of sabotage’? The answer, we argue, begins with the very meaning of ‘growth’. Whereas conventional political economy … equates growth with a rising standard of living, we posit that much of this growth has nothing to do with livelihood as such …

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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 … some measure of growth and stability, depth thrives on ‘accumulation through crisis.’ The past twenty years were dominated …

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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

The paper offers a new approach for analysing capitalist development and crisis, tying together mergers and acquisitions, stagflation and globalization as integral facets of accumulation. The framework builds on the concept of differential accumulation, emphasizing the power drive by dominant...

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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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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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