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Wars Have Become Too Cheap to Boost Growth

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2019

FROM THE NOTE: This week, with the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Atlanta anticipating sharply lower GDP growth for 2019:Q1, President Trump presented a ‘Budget for A Better America’, calling for a smaller government and a bigger military. Forty years ago, the very same call was...

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Arms and Oil in the Middle East: A Biography of Research

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Rethinking Marxism 30 (2018) 3, pp. 418-440

periodic eruption of Middle East “energy conflicts.” In their explorations, the authors have encountered numerous gatekeepers …

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Still in the Danger Zone

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2020

. And we ob-served that, in this context, ‘the prospects of a new energy conflict, whether premeditated or co …

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Arms and oil in the Middle East : a biography of research

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bikler, Šimšōn - 2018

periodic eruption of Middle East "energy conflicts." In their explorations, the authors have encountered numerous gatekeepers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002769

Wars have become too cheap to boost growth

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2019

This week, with the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Atlanta anticipating sharply lower GDP growth for 2019:Q1, President Trump presented a ‘Budget for A Better America’, calling for a smaller government and a bigger military. Forty years ago, the very same call was hailed as the best...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099436

The scientist and the church

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

others, the ‘era of free flow,’ the ‘era of limited flow,’ ‘energy conflicts,’ the ‘commercialization of arms exports,’ the …

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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

The recent shift from ‘global villageism’ to the ‘new wars’ revealed a deep crisis in heterodox political economy. The popular belief in neoliberal globalization, peace dividends, fiscal conservatism and sound finance that dominated the 1980s and 1990s suddenly collapsed. The early 2000s...

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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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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

and Middle East “energy conflicts.” Examining the historical record since the late 1960s, we find US policies to have been … significantly, every “energy conflict” since the late 1960s was preceded by adverse drops in the differential rate of the large oil … for the arms contractors. Left unresolved, these predicaments could eventually culminate in a new “energy conflict.” …

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