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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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Military Spending and Differential Accumulation: A New Approach to the Political Economy of Armament – The Case of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 28 (1996) 1, pp. 51-95

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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Bringing Capital Accumulation Back In: The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition – Military Contractors, Oil Companies and Middle-East "Energy Conflicts"

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review of International Political Economy 2 (1995) 3, pp. 446-515

This paper offers an alternative approach to the repeated occurrence of Middle East “energy conflicts.” Our analysis centres around the process of differential capital accumulation, emphasizing the quest to exceed the “normal rate of return” and to expands one's share in the overall flow...

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Political Power Shifts in Israel, 1977 and 1992: Unsuccessful Electoral Economics or Long Range Realignment?

Bichler, Shimshon - In: Science & Society 58 (1994) 4, pp. 415-439

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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New Imperialism or New Capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the … XXIX (2006) 1, pp. 1-86

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...

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Imperialism and Financialism. A Story of a Nexus

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Journal of Critical Globalization Studies (2012) 5, pp. 42-78

which finance capital could export its excessive surplus. The next version posited a neo-imperial world of monopoly …

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Capital as Power: Toward a New Cosmology of Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Real-World Economics Review (2012) 61, pp. 65-84

Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists think of capital as an economic entity that they count in universal units of utils and abstract labour, respectively. But these units...

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Capital Accumulation: Fiction and Reality

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

about a financial crisis, they don’t speak about it in isolation. They refer to finance not in and of itself, but in … relation to the so-called real capital stock. The recent crisis, they argue, happened not because of finance as such, but due … to a mismatch between financial and real capital. The world of finance, they complain, has deviated from and distorted …

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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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Pairs trading with a mean-reverting jump-diffusion model on high-frequency data

Stübinger, Johannes; Endres, Sylvia - 2017

This paper develops a pairs trading framework based on a mean-reverting jump-diffusion model and applies it to minute-by-minute data of the S&P 500 oil companies from 1998 to 2015. The established statistical arbitrage strategy enables us to perform intraday and overnight trading. Essentially,...

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