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Review of Bichler and Nitzan's "Capital As Power"
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이스라엘 출신의 두 경제학자 심숀 비클러와 조너선 니찬이 쓴 〈권력 자본론〉은 번역본만 있을 뿐 원본은 없는 책이다. 두 학자는 2002년 영국 런던의 플루토프레스 출판사에서 〈이스라엘의 전지구적 정치경제〉(The Political Economy of Israel)를 냈는데, 이 책은 자본의 본질을 다룬 이론 부분과 이스라엘 정치경제에 대한 분석을 다룬 부분으로 구성돼 있다. 〈권력 자본론〉은 이 가운데 앞의 '이론 부분'의 초고를 우리말로 옮긴 것이다. 〈이스라엘의 전지구적 정치경제〉에서는 초고를 편집과정에서 대폭 줄여 뼈대만 남겨 놓았는데, 그 원텍스트를 살려낸 것이다. 현재 캐나다 토론토대학에서 정치경제학 박사 과정에 있는 옮긴이 홍기빈씨는 지은이들과 상의해 수정•보완된 이론 부분 초고를 넘겨받아 번역본을 완성했다고 한다...
Seven Lectures on Capital (TAU, Mini Course 1011.4670, Graduate)
Get PDFWhat is capital? Is capital the same as machines, or is it merely a financial asset? Is it ‘material’ or ‘social’? Is it static or dynamic? Surprisingly, these questions have no clear answers. The form of capital, its existence as monetary wealth, is hardly in doubt. The problem is with the content, the ‘stuff’ which makes capital grow, and on this aspect of capital there is no agreement whatsoever. For example, does capital accumulate because it is ‘productive,’ or due to the ‘exploitation’ of workers? Does capital expand ‘on its own,’ or does it need ‘external’ institutions such as the state? Can capital grow by undermining production and efficiency? What exactly is being accumulated? Does the value of capital represent a tangible ‘thing,’ ‘utils,’ ‘dead labour’ or perhaps something totally different? What units should we use to measure its accumulation?
The course offers a critical examination of the concept of capital, the process of capital accumulation, and the broader implications of capital accumulation for understanding how capitalism works. The first lecture provides an overview of political economy. The next two lectures outline the two existing approaches to capital: the utility-based neoclassical view and the labour-based Marxist perspective. The last four lectures present an alternative power-based approach to capital
If Capital is Power, Is Power Capital? Review of Bichler and Nitzan's "Capital As Power". ([권력 자본론] 서평: 자본이 권력이면 권력이 자본인가?)
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현 시기는 대전환기이다. 굳이 월러스틴(Wallerstein)의 ‘세계체제론’과 같은 예언자적 전망―자본주의의 멸망―을 빌리지 않더라도, 자본주의는 신자유주의적 자본주의에 이르러 그 내적 모순을 폭발적으로 드러내고 있다.
IMF 사태를 겪은 우리에게 ‘글로벌 스탠더드’로 강요되었던 미국식 자본주의가 사실은 분식회계(우리의 대우그룹처럼)를 일반적인 관행으로 행하는 ‘카지노 자본주의’이고, ‘신경제’라는 ‘분식’이론으로 치장한 미국경제가 거품경제임을 2000년 주식시장 붕괴가 폭로하였다.
급기야 위기에 몰린 ‘헤게모니 국가’ 미국은 정보조작과 여론조작으로 이라크를 침략했다. 전형적인 제국주의 침략전쟁이다. 이 과정에서 미국은 ‘테러와의 전쟁’을 핑계로 대내적인 파쇼적 억압ㆍ감시체제를 부활시켜 가고 있다. 그러나 미국은 이라크 민중의 목숨을 건 항전과 전 세계 민중의 반전여론과 반전투쟁으로 제2의 베트남전쟁에 직면하고 있다. 위기의 징후는 정치뿐만 아니라, 사회ㆍ환경 등 곳곳에서 확인된다. 요컨대, 현재의 위기는 신자유주의적 자본주의의 구조적 위기이면서 동시에 자본주의의 체제적 위기를 잉태하고 있다 ...
Revisionist Economics. Review of Bichler and Nitzan's "The Global Political Economy of Israel"
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Clash of Civilizations or Capital Accumulation? Epilogue to the book "From War Profits to Peace Dividends" (מלחמת-תרבויות או הצבר-הון? אחרית לספר מרווחי מלחמה לדיבידנדים של שלום)
Get PDFבספטמבר 2001 יצא הספר 'מרווחי מלחמה לדיבידנדים של שלום'. בהוצאת כרמל בירושלים. בגרסתו הראשונה הוא נכתב בשנת 1995. זאת גם הייתה השנה שעד אליה נאספו רוב הנתונים ונוסחו מרבית ההיפותזות. מאז עברו כמעט עשור שנים שבמרוצתן נבעו סדקים בחזית האופורית של 'הכלכלה-החדשה' ובסופן פרצה מלחמת המפרץ השנייה. הגיע העת לבחון מחדש את התיאוריות, את ההיפותזות ואת התחזיות שהועלו בספר
אחת ההמצאות החשובות שהוצגו בספר, בחנה, בין השאר, את פריצת המלחמות במזרח-התיכון במחצית השנייה של המאה העשרים לאור תהליך ההצבר הקפיטליסטי. היא נוסחה בדרך שמעמידה למבחן חד ביותר את כלל תמונת העולם החדשה שהצגנו. היא לא הסתתרה מאחורי סיסמאות תרבות וכרזות של הגזע ולא מאחורי ניסוחים אקדמיים פסבדו-מדעיים. בנספח זה אנו חוזרים ובוחנים את תקפותה לאור המאורעות של שנות אלפיים. השאלה הברורה היא: האם הקונפליקטים של תחילת המאה העשרים-ואחת הן התנגשות של ציביליזציות או חלק משינוי באופי הצבר ההון העולמ
War Profits, Peace Dividends and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (전쟁을 통한 이익, 평화배당금, 이스라엘-팔레스타인 갈등)
Get PDFThe conflict in Israel – Palestine will not be settled in the streets of Nablus and the shacks of the Jenin Refugee Camp. The real war lays elsewhere, in the boardrooms of the multinationals where the vanguard of the arms and oil industries are leading a resurgence against the forces of the new global capital
Review of Nitzan and Bichler’s "The Global Political Economy of Israel"
Get PDFThe Global Political Economy of Israel is a gripping read, for specialists and non-specialists alike. Amateurs of novel theoretical explorations into the field of political economy will enjoy the authors’ truly original and often controversial analysis of economic phenomena, such as capital accumulation, stagflation, corporate amalgamation and global integration, while readers less versed in economic theory will appreciate the authors’ avoidance of unnecessary jargon and propitious explanations of the terms they use. But the greatest merit of the book undoubtedly lies in its remarkable combination of challenging theoretical analysis and fascinating empirical investigation of the Israeli and US economies, spiced with some delightfully embarrassing details about Israel’s most respectable politicians and businessmen
Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "The Global Political Economy of Israel"
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"It is easy to get trapped in the web of silk threads that Nitzan and Bichler interweave in this fascinating manuscript on international politics and national-global capitalism. . . . 'The Global Political Economy of Israel' is one of the most important books on political-economics. It presents a critical and coherent picture of Israel's development from the 'national' phase to the global and manages to derive insights on the forms of making a ruling class. For that reason, the book is not only for Israeli readers. The book can be addressed to researchers and students of political and social geography all over the world, who are interested in state theory and in processes of accumulation and globalization – mainly in relation to the intensification of multi-national corporations and transnational capitalism"
Clash of Civilization, or Capital Accumulation?
No full textOver the past three years, we have published several articles where we made a series of very ‘contrarian’ predictions on the new wars. Specifically, we claimed: (1) That direct U.S. intervention will conveniently if not intentionally ‘fail’ to stabilize the Middle East; (2) That the new wars will make oil not plenty and cheap, but scarce and expensive; (3) That the leading oil companies will profit greatly from the new environment of heightened instability and soaring oil prices; (4) That rising oil prices are likely to fuel global stagflation (stagnation together with inflation); and, (5) That the shift toward stagflation – should it occur – would not hinder accumulation but rather boost it, particularly for the largest corporate coalitions. When these claims were first made, they were greeted with a mixture of indifference and hostility. The conventional ‘postisms’ of ethnicity, race and culture pays little attention to capital accumulation, oil prices or inflation, and none at all to their analysis. By contrast, analysts of politics and economics deal extensively with such questions – but to them our arguments sounded like conspiratorial nonsense. As it turns out, the pundits got it wrong