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Capitalism's deniers
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2019
A new, capitalism-denying book is on the shelves, and it makes a stunning discovery: "Capitalism without competition is … not capitalism"! Capitalist crisis, like climate change, tends to breed "capitalism deniers". The problem, argue the … deniers, lies not in capitalism but in its "distortions". In its pure form, they maintain, capitalism is the best of all …
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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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Capital Accumulation: Breaking the Dualism of "Economics" and "Politics"
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories, (pp. 67-88). 2000
as a socio-material transformation in which capital changes its skin from money, to commodities, to more money. The …
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Blood and oil in the Orient : a 2023 update
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2023
The 2023 war between Hamas and Israel elicits many different explanations. As with previous regional hostilities, here too, the pundits and commentators have numerous overlapping processes to draw on - from the struggle between the Zionist and Palestinian national movements, to the deep...
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The capital as power approach : an invited-then-rejected Interview with Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan
Bikler, Šimšōn (interviewee);  … - In: Review of capital as power 2 (2023) 2, pp. 96-174
This interview was commissioned in October 2019 for a special issue on "Accumulation and Politics: Approaches and Concepts" to be published by the Revue de la régulation. We submitted the text in March 2020, only to learn two months later that it won't be published. The problem, we were...
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New imperialism or new capitalism?
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bikler, Šimšōn - In: Review : a journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for … 29 (2006) 1, pp. 1-86
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With their back to the future : will past earnings trigger the next crisis
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018
As these lines are being written (April 2018), the The U.S. stock market is again in turmoil. After a two-year bull run in which share prices soared by nearly 50 per cent, the market is suddenly dropping. Since the beginning of 2018, it lost nearly 10 per cent of its value, threatening investors...
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Can capitalists afford recovery? : a 2018 update and a closer look
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018
This research note starts by showing that, for much of the postwar period, U.S. unemployment to has been a highly reliable leading indicator for the capitalist share of domestic income three years later, and then assesses whether this relationship still holds.
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Arms and oil in the Middle East : a biography of research
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bikler, Šimšōn - 2018
This essay interweaves two stories - one theoretical and empirical, the other autobiographical. The first story embeds the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the broader political economy of the Middle East and the global accumulation of "capital as power." The second story narrates the authors'...
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Arms and oil in the Middle East : a biography of research
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2017
FROM THE ARTICLE: "During the late 1980s, we printed a series of working papers, offering a new approach to the political economy of Israel and wars in the Middle East. Our approach in these papers rested on three new concepts. It started by identifying the Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition -...
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