This paper develops a heterodox analytical framework of wage determination and a new method of decomposition of the gender pay gap drawing on Marxian and feminist theories. The proposed framework utilizes two wage equations for the analysis of the gender gap: the first equation refers to average...

In this paper, the concept of capital over-accumulation, formulated by Marx in Volume 3 of Capital, is discussed and adopted as the theoretical framework for the study of capital accumulation and economic crisis in Greece in the period 1960-89. The empirical part of the analysis is based on the...

Intellectual commons are the great other of intellectual property-enabled markets. They constitute non-commercial spheres of intellectual production, distribution and consumption, which are reproduced outside the circulation of intangible commodities and money. They provide the core common...

Over the past twenty years, theorising about the intellectual commons has undeniably become a popular activity, not only among scholars who deal with the dialectics between information/communication technologies and society, but also among the wider scientific community. Yet the discourse over...

In the last five years, Greece has been hit by a vicious circle of relentless neoliberal restructuring programs. During the years of the crisis, throughout the country urban and rural communities of struggle have been formed, which tend to employ instituent practices and to acquire constitutive...

In the neoliberal era, social counter - power emerges is the main resurgent force to contend the capital - state complex, whether in the form of labour struggles or direct democratic movements or in the form of struggles for the preservation/difussion of the commons. Political forces within...

Movements tend to employ instituent practices and to acquire constitutive characteristics when they set up the material foundations of their collective autonomy, i.e. when they establish socially reproductive commons, democratically (re)producing forms of life that respond to basic needs of the...