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as industry failed to match the increase in labour flexibility with rising capital investment. …This paper argues that the production constraints in the basic NAIRU model should be distinguished by type: capital … constraints and labour constraints. It notes the failure to incorporate this phenomenon in standard macro models. Using panel data …
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identified - the power of capital over labour, the rise of 'oligarchs capitalism', the individualisation of economic conditions …
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We analyse the evolution of capital and labour (mis)allocation across firms in five euro-area countries (Belgium … efficiency of labour reallocation has not changed significantly. Second, the observed increase in capital misallocation has been … particularly severe in services as opposed to industry. Third, misallocation of both labour and capital dropped in all countries in …
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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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Israeli politics saw major realignments in 1977 and 1992. The effect of long range economic cycles on the nature and outcome of Israeli electoral politics is examined in these two elections.
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The present paper is the first in a series of three essays in which we examine the macroeconomic and structural approaches to inflation. In this paper we explore some of the key contributions to the macroeconomic literature which appeared since the late 1950s. Much of this literature evolved in...
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capitalists want a recovery; how else can they prosper? According to the textbooks, both mainstream and heterodox, capital …
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Over the past century, Israel has been transformed from an agricultural colony, to a welfare-warfare state, to a globally integrated “market economy” characterised by great income disparities. What lies behind this transformation? Why the shift in emphasis from “war profits” to “peace...
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opinion, the sharp “U-turn” in Israeli history is intimately linked to the changing nature of capital accumulation and …
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neoclassical economics is the util. The elementary particle of classical Marxism is abstract labour. These elementary particles …, capitalism should be seen not as a mode of production, but a mode of power. From a viewpoint of power, utils and abstract labour …
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