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Kapitalizm: Sabotaj Yoluyla Büyüme – 3
Get PDFAnarşist Ekonomi Tartışmaları yazı dizimizde, Bichler ve Nitzan’ın kapitalizmin büyüme yanılsamasını inceleyen makalelerinin ilk 8 bölümünü aktarmıştık. Makalenin sonundaki 9-12. bölümlerinde enerji ve iktidar ilişkisini inceleyen alternatif bir model sunuluyor. Makalenin bu bölümü ayrıca, neoliberal ve Marxist ekonomi teorilerin indirgemeci yapısını göz önüne sermesi açısından ilgi çekici
Kapitalizm: Sabotaj Yoluyla Büyüme – 1
Get PDFKapitalizmi geleneksel yöntemlerin dışında inceleyen akademisyenlerden oluşan CasP projesine, Meydan Gazetesi’nin bir önceki sayısında yer vermiştik. Anarşist Ekonomi Tartışmaları yazı dizimize, aynı proje kapsamında yayınlanan ve kapitalizmin büyüme yanılsamasını inceleyen bir makale ile devam ediyoruz. Makalenin kısaltarak alıntıladığımız ilk üç bölümü, kapitalizmin stratejik sabotajını ve büyüme şeklini açıklıyor. Bu yazı ayrıca, tarih öncesi ekonomik faaliyetleri bugün ile karşılaştırmaya olanak veren, sosyo-biyofiziksel bir ölçütü, enerji yakalamayı kullanması açısından ilgi çekici, çünkü bu karşılaştırmayı para ya da üretim miktarları kullanarak yapmak imkansızdır
Differentiating Diamonds: Transforming Knowledge and the Accumulation of De Beers
No full textIn 1939, the De Beers diamond company faced a dire situation. The company’s accumulation had been dwindling for decades. The Great Depression not only pushed diamond sales to historic lows, it shifted American attitudes around consumption and thriftiness to the detriment of the luxury object. In this article, I bring together Liz McFall’s assertion that advertising needs to be studied as a “specific commercial device” with Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler’s capitalas-power theory of value (CasP), which emphasizes differential accumulation. Both McFall and CasP challenge analyses that treat capitalism as an undifferentiated totality. It is from this perspective of differentiated commercial struggle that I analyze De Beers’ early advertising campaigns as well as the market research by N.W. Ayer that preceded them. My analysis focuses on an educational component intended to transform the diamond knowledge of the masses. The analysis demonstrates how the research informed the campaign that emerged in contingent relation with various facets of American society and was transformed by changes emergent with WWII
Izrael Globális Politikai Gazdaságtana (Review of the Global Political Economy of Israel)
No full textA két szerző nem egyszerűen csak gazdaságtörténetet írt, hanem saját politikai gazdaságtani elméletük is van, melyet a Capital as Power (A tőke mint hatalom, Routledge 2009) című könyvükben részletesebben ki is fejtenek. Ezt az elméletet az Izraelről szóló kötetben is összefoglalják, mivel alapvető elemzési keretet ad munkájuknak
Can Capitalists Afford a Trumped Recovery
No full textFROM THE POST: "Earlier this week, I hooked up for a lunch with George Archer and Jonathan Nitzan, two friends of mine who also had previous stints working at BCA Research. I enjoyed our lunch and conversation. After we met, Jonathan sent me a paper he published along with Shimshon Bichler, ‘Can Capitalists Afford a Trumped Recovery? Let me begin by stating. . . .
Arms and Oil in the Middle East: A Biography of Research
No full textFROM THE ARTICLE: 'During the late 1980s, we printed a series of working papers, offering a new approach to the political economy of Israel and wars in the Middle East. Our approach in these papers rested on three new concepts. It started by identifying the Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition – an alliance of armament firms, oil companies and financial institutions based mostly in the United States – whose interests, we posited, converged in the Middle East. It continued by arguing that the interests of this coalition were best measured by its differential accumulation – i.e., by its performance relative to other large firms. And it concluded by showing that variations in differential accumulation predicted subsequent Middle East energy conflicts (our term). At the time, the papers seemed unpublishable. They were politically unaligned (neither neoclassical nor Marxist). They were non-disciplinary (belonging to neither economics nor politics – or any other social science, for that matter). And they were written in non-academic language (i.e., simply, clearly and to the point). But they made a scientific prediction: the Middle East, they argued, was ripe for another round of military hostilities and oil crisis. And when the 1990-91 Gulf War broke out, their theoretical frame-work suddenly sounded very relevant’
From Colonialism to Climate Change: The Power to Externalize - Video
No full textThe history of capitalism is a history of externalization. While benefits were tallied, costs were routinely excluded from accounts. In this presentation I examine the history of externalization as a power process. A history of brutality and destruction marketed as innovation and efficiency, externalization has been the shadowy counterpart to accumulation. From colonialism to climate change, I will describe how negative effects of economic activity are systematically imposed on vulnerable communities via the interconnected processes of production and accounting. Finally, I will consider how externalities have made their way back onto the books through uprisings, court rulings and environmental disasters.
Refreshment will be served and everyone is welcome.
WHERE: Verney Room, South 674 Ross Building, Keele Campus, York University
WHEN: 2:30 - 5:30 pm, Tuesday, 24 October 201
The Coming Revolution in Political Economy: Money Creation, Mankiw and Misguided Macroeconomics
No full textThe aim of this article is to challenge one of the principal received truths in the field of Economics: the way that new money is created. We also aim to go further and argue that a proper understanding of how new money is created has such devastating consequences that it heralds no less than a coming revolution in how we understand political economy and future possibilities. Our main argument is that the received truth of the fractional reserve theory or 'money multiplier' model taught in most economics textbooks cannot explain the expansion of the money supply by logic, simple math and by basic bank accounting practices. To demonstrate our argument we rely on Mankiw’s 'Macroeconomics' and his chapter explaining to students how new money is created. We use Professor Mankiw’s textbook because of its widespread use as an introductory text to macroeconomics. Our second argument is that the vast majority of new money is actually created by banks when they make loans. The article concludes with a discussion of some of the major consequences of allowing private social forces to issue new money as debt
Growing through Sabotage: Energizing Hierarchical Power
No full textAccording to the theory of capital as power, capitalism, like any other mode of power, is born through sabotage and lives in chains – and yet everywhere we look we see it grow and expand. What explains this apparent puzzle of 'growth in the midst of sabotage'? The answer, we argue, begins with the very meaning of ‘growth’. Whereas conventional political economy equates the growth with a rising standard of living, we posit that much of this growth has nothing to do with livelihood as such: it represents not the improvement of wellbeing, but the expansion of sabotage itself. Building on this premise, the article historicizes, theorizes and models the relationship between changes in hierarchical power and sabotage on the one hand and the growth of energy capture on the other. It claims that hierarchical power is sought for its own sake; that building and sustaining this power demands strategic sabotage; and that sabotage absorbs a significant proportion of the energy captured by society. From this standpoint, capitalism grows, at least in part, not despite or because of sabotage, but through sabotage
Bir İktidar Biçimi Olarak Sermaye
Get PDF2009’da başlayan ekonomik krizin bir etkisi de ekonomi uzmanlarını şaşkına çevirmiş olmasıydı. Ne neo-liberal, ne de Marksist ekonomistler, bugün neredeyse tüm dünyaya egemen olan kapitalizmin krizlerini verilerle açıklayamıyorlardı. Anarşist Ekonomi Tartışmaları başlıklı yazı dizimizin bu bölümünde, 80’lerden beri süren bilimsel çalışmaları ile bu iki egemen görüşün dışında bir teori geliştirip, verilere dayanarak kapitalizmi krizleri ile birlikte açıklamayı başaran Shimshon Bichler ve Jonathan Nitzan’a yer verdik. Uzun yıllar akademik çevreler tarafından dışlanmakla kalmayıp, makalelerinden yapılan intihaller, Marksist politik doğrulara uyacak şekilde düzeltilerek başka isimler tarafından yayınlanmış olan yazarlar, kısaltarak alıntıladığımız sunumda teorinin gelişim sürecini ve temellerini açıklıyorlar. Bu teori ile ilgili çalışan bütün araştırmacıların kitaplarına, makalelerine ve kullandıkları verilere CapitalAsPower.com adresinden ücretsiz erişilebilir