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The Industrial Revolution reconsidered : Hard Steps, the Great Filter, and Doomsday

Naudé, Wim - 2026

The Hard Steps model is applied to argue that the Industrial Revolution (IR) heralded a terminal phase of human existence. Assuming six hard steps, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov method is used to pinpoint the start of the IR to ≈ year 1700. Once these hard steps were cleared, the global economy...

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Capitalism cheats : Three moments of normalized swindling

Haiven, Max - 2026

In a financialized world where we are all conscripted to be competitive players, the category of cheating takes on new political and cultural potency and has become key to reactionary ideology. This speculative essay moves beyond the conventional framing of cheating as the exceptional...

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Welcome to the age of longevity capitalism

Dal Maso, Giulia - 2026

This essay coins and develops the concept of Longevity Capitalism, a biopolitical and financial regime in which both the condition of living longer and the pursuit of longevity are transformed into frontiers of accumulation. As financialisation extends into the domain of ageing, longevity - once...

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The narcissistic dimensions of market economy : implications and effects from a social work perspective

2025

Background and Objective: This paper posits that market-oriented economies foster narcissistic behavior due to their focus on profit, private ownership, competition, and free markets. The research presented demonstrates that while overall levels of narcissism remain stable, certain political...

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Artificial intelligence, the collapse of consumer society, and oligarchy

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2025

This paper examines the potential for automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to induce a broader economic decline, impacting not only labor but also the owners of capital and advanced technology. While automation has traditionally favored skilled over unskilled workers, recent advancements...

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Artificial Intelligence, the Collapse of Consumer Society, and Oligarchy

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2025

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The relationship between energy and capital : insights from the wealth of nations

Mair, Simon - 2025

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A theoretical enquiry into social and spatial inequalities : an urban-regional political economy perspective

Das, Raju J. - 2025

Economic development under capitalism is uneven, both socially and spatially. The existing literature, both mainstream social sciences and Marxist political economy, generally separates social inequality (inequality among classes and class-fractions) from spatial inequality. It also pays...

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The value theory puzzle : will asking the right questions lead to new results?

Laibman, David - 2025

To progress beyond the orthodoxy vs. skepticism divide, Marxist value theory must endorse both qualitative research into the social relations underlying economic phenomena and careful quantitative modeling. It must also accept scientific conclusions, wherever they may lead. New investigations...

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Economocracy : global economic governance

Challoumis, Constantinos - 2025

Economic systems face critical challenges, including widening income inequality, unemployment driven by automation, mounting public debt, and environmental degradation. This study introduces Economocracy as a transformative framework aimed at addressing these systemic issues by integrating...

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Economocracy: Global economic governance

Challoumis, Constantinos - 2025

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A systemic review on the possibility of democratic degrowth transition

Kovács, Olivér - 2025

The present paper offers a systemic literature review on the concept of degrowth by envisioning its impact on democracy. In so doing it first uses the methodology called SPIDER by building on a number of relevant literatures derived from Scopus. Second, it introduces a variety of degrowth...

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A systemic review on the possibility of democratic degrowth transition

Kovács, Olivér - 2025

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A colony of opportunity : African economic intermediaries, rubber, and capitalism in German colonial Cameroon, 1884-1914

Oestermann, Tristan - 2025

Taking German Cameroon as an example, this article uses the concept of the colonial intermediary to analyze Africans' role in colonial capitalism. While researchers have shown that the colonial state depended on Africans, the importance of African intermediaries in European trade has hardly been...

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A Colony of Opportunity: African Economic Intermediaries, Rubber, and Capitalism in German Colonial Cameroon, 1884-1914

Oestermann, Tristan - 2025

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(Post-)Colonial Business History and the Coloniality of the Firm: The Case of the Woermann Group, 1884-1945

Todzi, Kim Sebastian - 2025

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(Post-)colonial business history and the coloniality of the firm : the case of the Woermann Group, 1884-1945

Todzi, Kim Sebastian - 2025

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Power and values : the gap between capitalist mindsets and capitalism

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2025

According to the economics Nobel laureate, Kenneth Arrow, "… capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues as Churchill attributed to democracy: It’s the worst system except for any other." Thus, capitalism is a necessary evil, but it is not inherently bad. I argue that...

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Power and Values: The Gap Between Capitalist Mindsets and Capitalism

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2025

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Good-for-nothing entrepreneurs : capitalism and democratic decline in the West

Naudé, Wim - 2025

This paper focuses on the relationship between capitalism and the decline in democracy in the West over the past quarter-century. Using data from the V-Dem Institute, Freedom House, and the World Inequality Database, a strong correlation is found between inequality, the rise of tech...

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Good-for-Nothing Entrepreneurs: Capitalism and Democratic Decline in the West

Naudé, Wim - 2025

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"The watchdog is siding with the thieves" : failing neoliberal policies and successful derisking in the Global South

Saleem, Ashar; Khan, Farzad Rafi; Martin de Holan, Pablo - 2025

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The monetary roots of exploitation

Andini, Corrado - 2025

This paper proposes a theory of the mark-up that is embedded in a circuit model of the capitalist mode of production. The model and the theory are built on Keynes's principle of effective demand, Graziani's monetary theory of production and Pivetti's monetary theory of distribution. The...

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The Monetary Roots of Exploitation

Andini, Corrado - 2025

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Capitalist cold : emotions and the economy in Europe and the United States

2025

"The capitalist system has often been described by its critics as a heartless economic structure corroding social bonds and symbolic values. Its defenders and analysts likewise use narratives that position emotions as central to the economy. This book enquires into the history of these framings....

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Entrepreneurship Is dangerously obsessed with growth and incompatible with current visions of a post-growth society

Naudé, Wim - 2024

Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of perpetual economic growth. This paper takes issue with the obsession with this growth myth, discussing the dangers it poses. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are...

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Entrepreneurship Is Dangerously Obsessed with Growth and Incompatible with Current Visions of a Post-growth Society

Naudé, Wim - 2024

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Shaping planetary health inequities : the political economy of the Australian growth model

Frank, Nicholas; Arthur, Megan; Friel, Sharon - 2024

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Wealth and class analysis : exploitation, closure and exclusion

Waitkus, Nora; Savage, Michael; Toft, Maren - 2024

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Economic possibilities for our grandchildren : 90 years later

Bibow, Jörg - 2024

This paper revisits Keynes's (1930) essay titled "The economic possibilities for our grandchildren." We discuss the three broader trends identified by Keynes that he expected would come to characterize the socio-economic evolution of advanced countries under individualistic capitalism: first,...

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Economic possibilities for our grandchildren: 90 years later

Bibow, Jörg - 2024

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Have faith in business : Nestlé, religious shareholders, and the politicization of the church in the long 1970s

Pitteloud, Sabine - 2024

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"Our land abounds in nature's gifts" : commodity frontiers, Australian capitalism, and socioecological crisis

Ryan, Matthew D. J. - 2024

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Does capitalism disfavor women? : evidence from life satisfaction

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2024

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Does capitalism disfavor women? : evidence from life satisfaction

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2023

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Amsterdam's circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads : postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?

Thompson, Matt; Cator, Charlotte; Beel, David; Jones, … - 2024

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The standard form under pressure? : on the ecological reconfiguration of product presentation using the example of consumables

Gajewski, Eltje; Schrör, Simon - 2024

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Monopoly menace : the rise and fall of cartel capitalism in Western Europe : 1918-1957

Hewitt, Liane - 2024

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The spiritual connection between the cartography of the human subconscious and the structures of neoliberal theology

Rath-Boșca, Albert Camil - 2024

Usually, an economist, a manager, a business administrator, or any other participating member of the free market has a single and clear view of the pecuniary value of goods and the nature of capital. The logic of capitalism allows the economic agent to assign clear values to goods based on...

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A brief history of the history of capitalism, and a new American variety

Regele, Lindsay Schakenbach - 2024

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A response to the comments on martial capitalism

Regele, Lindsay Schakenbach - 2024

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Counternarrating entrepreneurship

Kibler, Ewald; Laine, Lauri - 2024

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Contextualizing capitalism in academia : how capitalist and feudalist organizing principles reinforce each other at Polish universities

Jensen, Tommy R.; Zawadzki, Michał - 2024

In this paper, we show how capitalism and feudalism reinforce each other to enable the former's success in the higher education context. In this regard, Polish universities are an interesting case due to Poland's capitalist shock therapy in the 1990s, its Western European membership in the...

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It does exactly what it says on its cover : Commons's Legal foundations as an inspirational text for legal institutionalism

Hodgson, Geoffrey M. - 2024

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Language, climate change, and cities beyond capitalism

Mair, Simon - 2024

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הדרך לעזה: מבוא

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2026

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What does finance do? A comparative and historical perspective, 1850-2020

Bua, Krystian; Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2026

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Preparing kids for capitalism : the effect of German reunification on the intergenerational transmission of preferences

Doepke, Matthias; Klasing, Mariko - 2026

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Roles of banks in times of crisis : more regulation or moral capital?

Ilesanmi, Kehinde Damilola; Tewari, Devi D. - 2026

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Moral capital threshold in the effectiveness of ODA for social infrastructure

Vincent, Moses Owede; Greyling, Lorraine - 2026

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From Adorno to 50 Cent : financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century

Kullick, Paul Niklas; Petry, Johannes - 2026

Does music sound all the same nowadays? This article revives the Frankfurt School's critique of the culture industry by recontextualizing it within contemporary financialized platform capitalism. We argue that Digital Streaming Platforms (DSPs) like Spotify showcase the proliferation of the...

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What does finance do? : a comparative and historical perspective, 1850-2020

Bua, Krystian; Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2026

This paper develops a functional and historical appraisal of finance. We start by proposing a taxonomy of three core, theory-driven functions of the financial system - intermediation, entrepreneurial, and accumulative - that coevolve throughout the history of capitalism. We build an empirical...

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Accents as capital

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia; … - 2026

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Accents as capital

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia; … - 2025

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Capitalization of the world : global distribution of income from property, 2000-2020

Milanović, Branko; Ranaldi, Marco - 2026

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Epistemic capital and two-trap growth in the AI era

Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2026

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Framing a place-based investment strategy for Fermanagh & Omagh

Sensier, Marianne; Hoskins, Joel; Francis, Michael; … - 2026

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The political economic roots of Hollywood strikes

McMahon, James - 2026

This paper investigates the timing of labour strikes in Hollywood. The occurrence of strikes, such as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, can make sense when we have the hindsight to piece together the historical details of what created rifts between labour and management. But why do strikes...

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Framing a place-based investment strategy for South Tyneside

Sensier, Marianne; Penney, Kate; Francis, Michael; … - 2026

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Corporate financialization in the age of asset managers : emerging traits of financial imperialism

Bua, Krystian; Dosi, Giovanni; Lapabitsas, Kōstas; … - 2026

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Beyond capitalism : from design to implementation

Benanav, Aaron - 2026

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Zombies, insolvency reform, and misallocation of capital

Nilsson-Hakkala, Katariina; Kumar, Abhishek - 2026

Distressed and zombie firms are widespread in economies with weak insolvency regimes. This study investigates whether reforming insolvency laws can reduce capital misallocation. We introduce a framework for decomposing financial misallocation and derive metrics adequate to capture two...

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