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particularly lays emphasis on what more than ever before governs our social world today, capitalism. The cold war proved the ground …
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Marx’s prediction. The most significant example of the failure of Marxist theory to be realised in practice is the …, failed to materialise and that claim is now itself historical, since capitalism has become the norm for social organisation … in most of the world’s nations. By asking the question how capitalism can persist amid crisis, Gramsci, provided the most …
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The paper considers four definitions of socialism. The definition of socialism as the public ownership of production means appears acceptable, notwithstanding the Ellerman’s critiques and other defects. Acceptable is also the definition of socialism as the overturn of the capital-labour...
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This paper provides a brief overview of economic thinking about the capitalist system. The clash between defenders and detractors highlights the system’s strengths and weaknesses as well as possible improvement vistas. As pro- and anti-capitalist theories are examined and compared against real...
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Karl Marx held to a view of ontological difference. Prominent in the early writings, yet re-emerging at crucial junctures in his seminal work Capital, this ontological view is expressed primarily as a distinction between human being, animal being, and the being of objects (things). The...
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This paper, written in memory of the distinguished Italian economist and philosopher Claudio Napoleoni, discusses the relation between the pre World War One Marxian debate known as the breakdown controversy and the contemporary evolution of Post-Keynesian economics.
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this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad brush, we outline a new, power theory of capital and accumulation. We … use this theory to assess the changing meaning of the corporation and the capitalist state, the new ways in which capital … gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present. …
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This paper compares the fundamental postulates of major economic systems i.e. Capitalism, Socialism, Mixed economy (a … hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism) and the Islamic economic system. It identifies through a review of theoretical economics … system are the major problematic issues in Capitalism against which mixed economy has also shown limited effectiveness …
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This article challenges the prevailing orthodoxy which suggests that contemporary global capitalism is in the … assessed. It is argued that each theory, in different ways, offers an inadequate explanation of contemporary capitalist … development. On the basis of this assessment, the article then contributes to a theory of capitalist decline by examining and …
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