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* Book: Serge Latouche, Farewell to Growth. URL = Review Source: François Diaz Maurin & Philip J. Vergragt (2010) Serge Latouche, Farewell to Growth, Sustainability ...
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1. Blair Fix: "Speaking of Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, their work will be an important part of this blog. One hot summer with no air conditioning, I read their seminal book Capital as Power. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this book changed my life. It made me realize that most concepts in mainstream economics are built on a foundati...
Orsan Senalp: "Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler's concept of 'Capital as Power' (A Study of Order and Creorder) is in accordance with Alexander Bogdanov's ideas which allows an alaternative conception of 'social class' which is determined by insetead of the position of its memebers with regard to the forces of production (ownership or non-ownershi...
A new definition of capital
By Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan: "We start with capital. Contemporary students of capitalism, hamstrung by nineteenth-century biases, continue to think of accumulation in the ‘material’ terms of labor, production and consumption. In our opinion, this emphasis has become insufficient and misleading. Over the past century, capital has grown increasingly politicized in nature and financial in form. ‘Free competition’ and the formal separation of ‘state’ and ‘capital’ — where they existed...
The new characteristics of capital accumulation
By Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan: We need "an alternative conceptualization of capital, understood not as a material entity but as a power institution. What gets accumulated, we argue, is neither ‘utility’ nor ‘dead labor,’ but financial claims on expected future earnings. These expected earnings, in turn,represent neither the ‘marginal productivity’ of capital nor ‘surplus value,’ butthe way capitalists view the future structure of power in society. A power understanding of accumulati...
Dominant Capital and the New Wars. By Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. Journal of World-Systems Research, 10(2), 255-327, 2004. doi
Description. 1. Christopher Cook: "Netherlands-based Seats2Meet (S2M) blends shared workspaces and social networking, tapping an immense desire among freelancers to expand opportunities and social connections. Since its launch with just 10 people in 2005, S2M has grown steadily, connecting tens of thousands of independent workers to thousands ...
Excerpt. 1. "Most of that received wisdom about guilds has not withstood the impact of recent research.8 New approaches in economic, social, labour, and institutional history have re-examined guilds, not least within the framework of a reappraisal of the classic and strict distinction between ‘‘capitalist’’ and ‘‘pre-capitalist ...
Description Peng Lu and Dianhan Chen: "The life cycle pattern is pervasive for both natural and social sciences, from events to empires. The man-land relationship governs the rising and falling cycles of empires. Based on the life cycle model of collective actions in ...
2014年2月12日 · A study conducted by the Chronicle of Philanthropy using tax-deduction data from the Internal Revenue Service, showed that households earning between $50,000 and $75,000 a year give an average of 7.6% of their discretionary income to charity. That compares to 4.2% for people who make $100,000 or more.
Participation in Pro-Am activities is heavily slanted towards well- educated, middle class people with incomes above £30,000 per year. There are some exceptions to this: fishing, for example, is largely a working class pastime. In some activities – volunteering for example – the class balance is more mixed.
