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The political economy of Colombia's cocaine industry

O'Connor, Dermot - 2009

means firms are prone to sabotage and violence from competitors and vulnerable to attempts at suppression of production by … (1991-2007), imputed from data on coca production collected by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. While Colombian … producers appropriate only a fraction of global revenues from cocaine trafficking and sales, control over production and …

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"Soft-wars": the differential trajectories of Google and Microsoft - a Capital as Power analysis

Mouré, Christoper - 2021

According to the capital as power framework, pecuniary earnings, or profits, are a symbolic representation of the struggle for power between different capitalist groups. In this struggle, capitalists measure their own power differentially - that is, relative to other capitalist entities. The...

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Arms and oil in the Middle East : a biography of research

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bikler, Šimšōn - 2018

This essay interweaves two stories - one theoretical and empirical, the other autobiographical. The first story embeds the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the broader political economy of the Middle East and the global accumulation of "capital as power." The second story narrates the authors'...

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Theory and praxis, theory and practice, practical theory

DeBailleul, Corentin; Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of capital as power 1 (2018) 3, pp. 40-57

In their paper ‘The CasP Project: Past, Present and Future’, Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan invite readers to engage critically with their theoretical framework, known as capital as power (CasP). This call for further research, reactions and critiques is the perfect occasion to raise a...

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The CasP project : past, present and future

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of capital as power 1 (2018) 3, pp. 1-39

symbolic creordering of capitalism; the role of labour, production and waste; the capitalized environment; and the need for …

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The harder they fall

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2019

Until a few months ago, the stock market narrative in the United States could have been summarized by the popular acronym BTFD – or "buy the fucking dip". Analysts and strategists, emboldened by the world's synchronized recovery, Trump's pro-business policies and ample liquidity, predicted...

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Can capitalists afford recovery? : a 2018 update and a closer look

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018

This research note starts by showing that, for much of the postwar period, U.S. unemployment to has been a highly reliable leading indicator for the capitalist share of domestic income three years later, and then assesses whether this relationship still holds.

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With their back to the future : will past earnings trigger the next crisis?

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018

The U.S. stock market is again in turmoil. After a two-year bull run in which share prices soared by nearly 50 per cent, the market is suddenly dropping. Since the beginning of 2018, it lost nearly 10 per cent of its value, threatening investors with an official "correction" or worse. As always,...

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With their back to the future : will past earnings trigger the next crisis

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018

As these lines are being written (April 2018), the The U.S. stock market is again in turmoil. After a two-year bull run in which share prices soared by nearly 50 per cent, the market is suddenly dropping. Since the beginning of 2018, it lost nearly 10 per cent of its value, threatening investors...

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An essay on the crisis of capitalism : a la Marx?

Ertürk, Korkut A. - 2012

competition as a war like process and how that militates against coordination (not to mention cooperation) among individual … welfare as well as the long term collective interest of capitalists, because coordination failure is not only endemic but a …

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