rationality. Computational rationality in turn rests on a parti cular understanding of how signification works: it works through … mastery. We argue that there are two modes of rational mastery, capitalization and bureaucratization, that interact with each …According to Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler (2009), capital is not an economic quantity, but a mode of power …

rationality in turn rest on a particular understanding of how signification works: operational symbolism, as theories by Sybille …According to Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan capital is not an economic quantity but a mode of power; it could be … sumarized as: "Capital is power quantified in monetary terms". So, what do we do when we "quantify"? What is the nature of …

mechanisms to curb the power of corporate managers. Berle and Means, legal pluralists, warned about concentrating economic power … reform continually couched in symbolism or whether the audit committee concept has evolved into real reform, allowing proper … corporate governance and mitigation of unchecked corporate power. My analysis is a traditional empirical analysis, relying on …

the very idea of "rationality" are derived entities. Which of the primitive tale is chosen bears far-reaching consequences … away from rationality-cum-equilibrium interpretations and of focusing on the varying balances between self …

concerning the critique of Marxian value theory which these authors put forward in their book Capital as Power (Nitzan and …

power has withered, but, on the contrary, that their power has increased. Indeed, not only has their power increased, it has … to the future, they have good reason to fear that, from now on, the most likely trajectory of this power will be not up …-by-step deconstruction of key power processes in the United States, attempting to assess how close these processes are to their asymptotes …

accident. Capitalism, we argue, is not a mode of production but a mode of power, and every mode of power evolves together with … study of political economy – the first mechanical science of society. But as the capitalist mode of power kept changing and … the quantitative revolution made it less and less opaque, the power underpinnings of capital grew increasingly visible and …

the capitalization of state power as it relates to war, colonialism and slavery. We conclude by calling for a connected …-histories approach within the framework of capital as power. …

Power', held at the 36th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association in Philadelphia, February 26-28, 2010. Sean …. Capitalist societies, he says, involve a myriad of power relations, many of them very important. These relationships, although … totalizing mode of power – which we call the state of capital – must be dispensed with. The notes attempt to clarify. They seek …