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Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

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Dominant Capital and the New Wars

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Journal of World-Systems Research 10 (2004) 2, pp. 254-327

some measure of growth and stability, depth thrives on ‘accumulation through crisis.’ The past twenty years were dominated …

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From War Profits to Peace Dividends: The New Political Economy of Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Capital & Class (1996) 60, pp. 61-94

Since the late 1980s, Israel has been undergoing a profound transformation, characterized by reconciliation with its Arab neighbours and attempts to reintegrate into the regional economy, a transition from a militarized economy to open markets, and a decline of the collectivist ethos in favour...

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Putting the State In Its Place: US Foreign Policy and Differential Accumulation in Middle-East “Energy Conflicts”

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of International Political Economy 3 (1996) 4, pp. 608-661

This is the second in a series of two articles looking into the interaction between differential capital accumulation and Middle East “energy conflicts.” Examining the historical record since the late 1960s, we find US policies to have been increasingly consistent with the coinciding...

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Military Spending and Differential Accumulation: A New Approach to the Political Economy of Armament – The Case of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 28 (1996) 1, pp. 51-95

This paper offers a new approach to the political economy of armament, focusing on the relationship between military spending and differential accumulation in mature capitalist economies. Applied to the “model” case of Israel, our analysis suggests that the militarization of Israel’s...

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Bringing Capital Accumulation Back In: The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition – Military Contractors, Oil Companies and Middle-East "Energy Conflicts"

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review of International Political Economy 2 (1995) 3, pp. 446-515

This paper offers an alternative approach to the repeated occurrence of Middle East “energy conflicts.” Our analysis centres around the process of differential capital accumulation, emphasizing the quest to exceed the “normal rate of return” and to expands one's share in the overall flow...

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New Imperialism or New Capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the … XXIX (2006) 1, pp. 1-86

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...

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How Capitalists Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Real-World Economics Review (2014) 66, pp. 65-73

accumulation and economic growth are two sides of the same process. Accumulation generates growth and growth fuels accumulation, so … it seems bootless to ask whether capitalists want growth. Growth is their lifeline, and the more of it, the better it is … growth decelerates, the income share of the Top 1% – which includes the capitalists as well as their protective power belt …

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Israel's Global Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2004

The flaring up of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s caught most experts by surprise. The 1990s euphoria of the Oslo ‘peace process’ suddenly dissipated, replaced by a second intifada; the newspeak of ‘peace dividends’ gave way to debates about ‘imperialism’; and instead...

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New Economy or Transnational Ownership? The Global Political Economy of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

An analysis of the political economy of Israel during the 1990s.

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