Power Employment And Accumulation

Author : Jim Stanford,Lance Taylor,Brant Houston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317462262

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Power, Employment and Accumulation by Jim Stanford,Lance Taylor,Brant Houston Pdf

This book provides an interesting and refreshing collection of economic research conducted in the broadly heterodox tradition. A variety of topical issues are addressed, including labor market inequalities, welfare reform, interest rate policies, international trade, and global financial instability. What unites these diverse essays is their common perspective that social institutions and structures "matter" to the performance of economies, and hence should receive more attention from economists. Conventional economic thought focuses unduly on the functioning of so-called "free-markets." The persistent influence of social structures, institutions and practices - and the unequal extent to which differing social constituencies are able to exert power through those structures - often receives short shrift in this traditional research. However, this volume makes a significant contribution by helping to reverse this trend. The chapters, all written by top economists from around North America, address a range of topical issues, utilizing a rich variety of methodological techniques from empirical investigations to game theory and opinion surveys. Furthermore, the book, which is dedicated to the memory of David M. Gordon, has as its unifying theme the incorporation of structural analysis into economic science - an important goal for academics and students alike.

Author : Richard B. DuBoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315492407

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Accumulation and Power: Economic History of the United States by Richard B. DuBoff Pdf

Koreas location at the very center of Northeast Asia also gives it a pivotal role in the economic integration of the region and the dynamic development of its more powerful neighbors. This book offers an appraisal of Korea as the key to the coalescence of a broad, open Northeast Asian regionalism in the 21st century.

Author : Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134022298

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Capital as Power by Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler Pdf

Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an ‘economic’ entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or ‘abstract labour’, respectively. But these units are totally fictitious. Nobody has ever been able to observe or measure them, and for a good reason: they don’t exist. Since liberalism and Marxism depend on these non-existing units, their theories hang in suspension. They cannot explain the process that matters most – the accumulation of capital. This book offers a radical alternative. According to the authors, capital is not a narrow economic entity, but a symbolic quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production lines. Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of dominant capital groups to reshape – or creorder – their society. Written in simple language, accessible to lay readers and experts alike, the book develops a novel political economy. It takes the reader through the history, assumptions and limitations of mainstream economics and its associated theories of politics. It examines the evolution of Marxist thinking on accumulation and the state. And it articulates an innovative theory of ‘capital as power’ and a new history of the ‘capitalist mode of power’.

Author : D. Foley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136462986

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Money, Accumulation and Crisis by D. Foley Pdf

Duncan Foley provides an alternative to Keynesian and 'new classical' macroeconomics, based on the Marxian theory of capital.

Author : David Michael Kotz,Terrence McDonough,Michael Reich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521459044

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Social Structures of Accumulation by David Michael Kotz,Terrence McDonough,Michael Reich Pdf

The social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach seeks to explain the long-term fortunes of capitalist economies in terms of the effect of political and economic institutions on growth rates. This book offers an ideal introduction to this powerful tool for understanding capitalist growth, analysing the social and economic differences between countries and the reasons for the successes and failures of institutional reform. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the theoretical basis of the SSA approach, the postwar financial system, Marxian and Keynesian theories of economic crisis, labour-management relations, race and gender issues, and the history of institutional innovation. Combining newly written essays with classic articles of the SSA school, the book examines the international economy and the economies of Japan, South Africa, and Puerto Rico, as well as the United States.

Author : Emmanuel D. Farjoun,Moshé Machover,David Zachariah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030933210

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How Labor Powers the Global Economy by Emmanuel D. Farjoun,Moshé Machover,David Zachariah Pdf

This book presents a probabilistic approach to studying the fundamental role of labor in capitalist economies and develops a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy. By applying the framework to real-world data, the authors offer new insights into the dynamics of growth, wages, and accumulation in capitalist development around the globe. The book demonstrates that a probabilistic political economy based on labor inputs enables us to describe central organizing principles in modern capitalism. Starting from a few basic assumptions, it shows that the working time of employees is the main regulating variable for determining strict numerical limits on the rate of economic growth, the range of wages, and the pace of accumulation under the present global economic system. This book will appeal to anyone interested in how the capitalist mode of production works and its inherent limitations; in particular, it will be useful to scholars and students of Marxian economics. “Emmanuel Farjoun and Moshé Machover, follow up their pathbreaking work on the application of statistical physics methods to political economy in this book with David Zachariah, in which they develop methods for making educated and structured estimates of stylized facts applicable to capitalist economies. There’s a lot for economists and anyone interested in the political economy of capitalism to learn from their reasoning on these issues, including their novel and challenging suggestion of bounds on the rates of increase of use-value productivity of labor, and on the range of variation of the wage share.” Duncan K. Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research

Author : Lorenzo Fusaro,Leinad Johan Alcalá Sandoval
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793638243

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The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation in Latin America and Beyond by Lorenzo Fusaro,Leinad Johan Alcalá Sandoval Pdf

This edited collection engages with Marx’s General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, examining the relevance and actuality of Marx’s propositions for the analysis of contemporary capitalism in Latin America and beyond. The contributors offer an original and updated interpretation of Marx while also examining important topics in political economy. The contributors bring critical insights into scholarly debates on imperialism, exploitation, labor, and development.

Author : Dennis C. Canterbury
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004230392

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Capital Accumulation and Migration by Dennis C. Canterbury Pdf

Dennis C. Canterbury’s Capital Accumulation and Migration explores the subject of capital accumulation and migration, a topic that is remarkably absent in the voluminous literature spawned under neoliberal capitalism by the renewed interest in the development impact of migration. This volume undertakes a critique of this literature and adds a critical dimension to it, while analyzing the financialization of migration processes. A central feature of neoliberal capitalism is the remodeling of the global political economy to facilitate capital accumulation from migration amidst serious fault lines that reflect an antagonistic contradiction in the neoliberal capitalist approach to migration.

Author : Richard B. Du Boff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Capital investments
ISBN : 1315492415

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Accumulation & Power by Richard B. Du Boff Pdf

Author : Geert Reuten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004392809

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The unity of the capitalist economy and state by Geert Reuten Pdf

In The unity of the capitalist economy and state, Geert Reuten offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system, showing that the capitalist economy and the capitalist state constitute a unity. In its critique of contemporary economics, the book argues that in order to comprehend the capitalist system, one requires a full synthetic exposition of the economic and state institutions and processes necessary for its continued existence. A synthetic approach also reveals a range of components that are often obscured by partial analyses. In its systematic character, Reuten’s work takes inspiration from Marx’s provisional outline of the capitalist system in Capital, while also addressing fields that Marx left unfinished – such as the capitalist state.

Author : Richard Dien Winfield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319398419

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Rethinking Capital by Richard Dien Winfield Pdf

This book develops a comprehensive systematic economic theory, conceiving how the dynamic of market relations generates an economy dominated by the competitive process of individual profit-seeking enterprises. The author shows how, contrary to classical political economy and contemporary economics, the theory of capital is an a priori normative account properly belonging to ethics. Exposing and overcoming the limits of the economic conceptions of Hegel and Marx, Rethinking Capital determines how the system of capitals shapes economic freedom, jeopardizing the very rights in whose exercise it consists. Winfield thereby provides the understanding required to guide the private and public interventions with which capitalism can be given a human face.

Author : Barbara Fritz,Lena Lavinas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317187578

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A Moment of Equality for Latin America? by Barbara Fritz,Lena Lavinas Pdf

Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have contributed to reducing poverty and narrow income disparities. Yet, despite this progress, nation-states in the region demonstrate little capacity to substantially change their patterns of deeply rooted inequalities. Focusing on the limits and challenges of redistributive policies in Latin America, this volume synthesizes and updates the discussion of inequality in the region, introducing the perspective of global and transnational interdependencies. The book explores the extent to which redistributive policies have been interlinked with the provision and quality of public goods as well as with structural changes of the productive sector. Inspired by structuralist and neostructuralist thinking of Latin American economists, such as Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, authors question the redistributive impact of the interplay of recent macroeconomic, fiscal and social policies, particularly under left and center-left administrations committed to greater equality. Bringing together experts in social, fiscal and macroeconomic policies to investigate the interdependent and global character of inequalities, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, economics, development and politics with interests in Latin America, inequality and public policy.

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Red Letter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Anti-globalization movement
ISBN : 0745342086

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The Anti-capitalist Chronicles by David Harvey Pdf

A new book from one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences

Author : Teresa Amabile,Steven Kramer
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422142738

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The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile,Steven Kramer Pdf

What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly. As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer explain in The Progress Principle, seemingly mundane workday events can make or break employees’ inner work lives. But it’s forward momentum in meaningful work—progress—that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees in 7 companies, the authors explain how managers can foster progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: (1) catalysts—events that directly facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy—and (2) nourishers—interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality. Brimming with honest examples from the companies studied, The Progress Principle equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the insights they need to maximize their people’s performance.

Author : Xiaohu (Shawn) Wang,George Chung Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351714938

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Fundamentals of Political Economy by Xiaohu (Shawn) Wang,George Chung Wang Pdf

This title was first published in 1977. Fundamentals of Political Economy is a popular introductory economics text published in the People's Republic of China in 1974 as a part of the Youth Self-Education series designed particularly for individual or group study. The primary purpose of this series, according to the preface, is to elevate the cultural level of the youths going down to the countryside, to advance their knowledge of the social and natural sciences, as well as to arouse their class consciousness. It was originally published in two volumes. The first volume (11 chapters) is a critical review of the historical development of capitalism. The second volume (12 chapters) deals with Marxist economic principles and the manner in which they are applied in China.