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How Capitalists Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2013
Do capitalists really want a recovery? Can they afford it? On the face of it, the question sounds silly: of course capitalists want a recovery; how else can they prosper? According to the textbooks, both mainstream and heterodox, capital accumulation and economic growth are two sides of the same...
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The Global Political Economy of Israel
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2002
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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Differential Accumulation and Middle East Wars: Beyond Neo-Liberalism
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Global Regulation. Managing Crises After the Imperial Turn, (pp. 43-60). 2004
It is popular these days to talk about the "discontent" of neoliberal globalization. This "discontent" is no longer the prerogative of intellectuals. Increasingly, it comes from below, with opposition from the grassroots. But there may be another type of discontent lurking behind the scenes....
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The Impermanent War Economy? Peace Dividends and Capital Accumulation in Israel
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: The Political Economy of Middle East Peace. The Impact …, (pp. 73-108). 1999
The purpose of this article is to offer an alternative analytical framework for understanding the long term transformation in Israel. First, we argue against the conventional separation between the “political system” and the “economic system.” This separationist approach has been popular...
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The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: The Global Political Economy of Israel, (pp. 198-273). 2002
A theoretical and historical account of the global political economy of oil, armament and capital accumulation in the Middel East.
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Mergers, Stagflation and the Logic of Globalization
Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Rethinking Political Global Economy. Emerging Issues, …, (pp. 109-146). 2003
The chapter 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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Inflation As Restructuring. A Theoretical and Empirical Account of the U.S. Experience
Nitzan, Jonathan - 1992
The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of analysis, we argue that inflation could be understood only in terms of ongoing structural and...
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Does the US Tax Code Encourage Market Concentration? An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the Corporate Tax Structure on Profit Shares and Shareholder Payouts
Hager, Sandy Brian; Baines, Joseph - 2023
profit share of large and smaller corporations. *** Our analysis reveals a striking tax advantage for big business in the US …. Specifically, we find that the total post-tax profit share of the top 10 percent of listed corporations since the mid-1980s is … consistently and significantly higher than their total pre-tax profit share, indicating that the overall tax structure (domestic …
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The limits of capitalized power : a 2020 U.S. update
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2020
Until the late 2000s, our work focused primarily on why capitalism should be understood as a mode of power. We argued that capital itself is a form of organized power and researched how capitalists sustain, defend and augment their capitalized power. We called our approach 'capital as power' -...
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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