[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: New Items

formance in Global Perspective." Egyptian Mail, November 4, p. 3. FROM THE ARTICLE: Just as the war was grinding on, I got hold of this study of what was going on in Lebanon, in global political economy perspective ... from two of the most reliable and insightful researchers it has been my good for

[PEN-L] "Cheap Wars" in booklet format

lty lies not so much in the military nature of the conflicts, as in the broader role that war now plays in capitalism. FULL TEXT http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/223/ ------- Jonathan Nitzan email: nitzan at yorku.ca website: www.bnarchives.net Political Science

[PEN-L] Guerra E Capitalismo

rku.ca/224/ - Jonathan Nitzan Political Science York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3 Canada Voice: (416) 736-2100, ext. 88822 Fax: (416) 736-5686 email: nitzan at yorku.ca website: http://bnarchives.net -

[PEN-L] "Cheap Wars" in Arabic

s in capitalism. (Arabic translation by Diab Zayed.) FULL TEXT http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/225/ ----- Jonathan Nitzan Political Science York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3 Canada Voice: (416)

[PEN-L] New Item: "The Evolution of Political Economy" (in Hebrew)

*** For those who may read Hebrew: *** Bichler, Shimshon and Jonathan Nitzan. 2007. "The Evolution of Political Economy" (תולדות הכלכלה הפוליטית). Hebrew. Jerusalem and Toronto. February. pp. 1-32. ABSTRACT Capital was cent

[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: New Item

Bichler, Shimshon, and Jonathan Nitzan. 2006. "Elementary Particles of the Capitalist Mode of Power." Transcript of a paper presented at the Sixth International Conference of Rethinking Marxism, October 26-28, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, pp. 1-20. ABSTRACT Theories of soci

Re: [PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: New Item

et Hype (1996) http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/149/ ----- Jonathan Nitzan Political Science York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3 Canada Voice: (416) 736-2100, ext. 88822 Fax: (416) 736-5686 email: nitzan at yorku.ca website: http://bnarchives.net -

[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: Peace-for_war

Holmes, Brian. 2006. Peace-for-War. Paper read at Dictionary of War, July 23, Munich, Germany (mpg video presentation and transcribed text). FROM THE LECTURE: The concept I'm going to present draws directly from the work of Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. It describes the economic p

[PEN-L] Homage to Nissan Rilov

Orr, Akiva (2007) "Homage to Nissan Rilov," Tnuvot, Israel, March 12. ABSTRACT Akiva Orr pays homage to a brave and honest man. FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/227/ - Jonathan Nitzan

[PEN-L] The Rockefeller Boys

Bichler, Shimshon, and Jonathan Nitzan. 2007. "The Rockefeller Boys." Science & Society 71 (2, April): 243-250. ABSTRACT: Rockefeller’s global reach -- from the University of Chicago to the Holy Land. FROM THE ARTICLE: John D. Rockefeller knew a thing or two about power. His S

[PEN-L] From Nitzan & Bichler: "The Gods Failed, The Priests Lied" (in Hebrew)

ה של הסדר הקפיטליסטי ומדע� י הכלכלה הם כוה� י האמו� ה. הם יודעי האמת. הם פרש� י המחירים. אלא שהאלים חמדו להם לצון והיתלו בכוה� ים... FULL TEXT http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/230/ - Jonathan Nitzan Political Sc

[PEN-L] From Nitzan & Bichler: "The Gods Failed, The Priests Lied" (in Hebrew)

rku.ca/230/ - Jonathan Nitzan Political Science York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3 Canada Voice: (416) 736-2100, ext. 88822 Fax: (416) 736-5686 email: nitzan at yorku.ca web

[PEN-L] Nitzan & Bichler (2007) War Profits, Peace Dividends, 2nd Hebrew Ed.

of capital and its political regime, providing background that is missing from the Israeli literature. FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/229/ --- Jonathan Nitzan Political Science York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3 Canada Voice: (416) 736-2100,

[PEN-L] Bichler & Nitzan: The Gods Failed, the Priests Lied -- A Clarification

"The Gods Failed, the Priest Lied: A Clarification" Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan ABSTRACT: Following the publication of our Hebrew paper, ‘The Gods Failed, the Priest Lied’ (May 2007), we received a request for clarification from a reader. Enclosed is our correspondence in Engl

[PEN-L] Israel's Roaring Economy

Israel's Roaring Economy by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan June 2007 FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/232/ Many observers of the Israeli scene have been perplexed by the country's apparent resilience to bad political news. The headlines of late seem uniformly dreadful.

[PEN-L] Israel's Roaring Economy: Reprints

"Israel's Roaring Economy" by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan, June 2007 REPRINTS Alternative Information Center: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/237/ Dissident Voice: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/238/ Global Research: http://bnarchiv

[PEN-L] L'ECONOMIA D'ORO ISRAELIANA

L'ECONOMIA D'ORO ISRAELIANA DEI SHIMSHON BICHLER E JONATHAN NITZAN Traduzione per comedonchisciotte a cura di MICAELA MARRI. Martedì, 17 luglio 2007 FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/239/ Molti osservatori dello scenario israeliano sono rimasti perplessi di fronte all’evidente

[PEN-L] AIC interview

Cheap Wars and Israel's Roaring Economy: An Audio Interview with Political Economist Jonathan Nitzan by Shir Hever of the AIC and Jonathan Nitzan, July 23, 2007 Duration: 75 minutes FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.c

[PEN-L] BNArchives: "Israels boomende Wirtschaft"

Israels boomende Wirtschaft by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. Translated by Anja Zuckmantel. Inamo (51, Fall): 51-53 Für Thomas Friedman von der New York Times liegt das Geheimnis von Israels boomender Wirtschaft im israelischen Genius begründet, in dem Ideenreichtum, Innovation und

[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: New Item

ate is how this project would be impossible without the capitalisation of the state. In this article, I therefore want to suggest that Marx’s re-theorisation of the concept of primitive accumulation, combined with a non-Marxist theorisation of state power offered by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bi

[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: New Item

? The consequences of the answer to that question will come more immediately than the geologically necessary peak in production and should be of greater concern. FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/249/ -- Jonathan Nitzan Political Science York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3

Re: [PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

Last week, there was a debate about our work "New Imperialism or New Capitalism?" on the LBO list. I would be happy to debate this work on the PEN-L with those who care to read it (http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/archive/0124/). Those who are comfortable with the classical dichotomy between "real" v

Re: [PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

TOM WALKER: Jonathan, What is Power? BILL LEAR: The use of the capacity to alter moral relationships from the universal to the unidirectional. I think that works. JONATHAN NITZAN: No, I don’t think it does work, even it is "true."

Re: [PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

Should have had the left/right order of the "equation" reversed: ...More specifically, we argue that the QUANTITATIVE process of differential capitalization (the *left* hand side of the “equation”) represents or “discounts” the QUALITATIVE processes of social power (the *right* hand side of th

Re: [PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

JONATHAN NITZAN: I’m glad to hear that “we are not alone”, and that, as Leo Szilard put it, Postone, Virno -- and presumably also Hardt and Negri Inc. -- “have said it all along”. Personally, though, I cannot see any connection between their work and ours. I suppose the difference boils down to

[PEN-L] Language and intentions

Over the past few days, my postings have been referred to on LBO and PEN-L as “chicken-shit cowardly rhetoric”, “gradeschool sneer,” “poisoning of discourse,” “intellectual hubris” and “boorish”. Pretty rough language. I can only imagine the response had I used such language myself In any event

Re: [PEN-L] My beef with the fetishization of ficticiousness

nd cannot -- contain the quantitative "code" for understanding the pecuniary process of accumulation, not exactly and not even approximately. This is what we argue in the paper. Jonathan Nitzan wrote: "We argue against the very notion that capital derives its pecuniary quantit

Re: [PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

Charles Brown wrote: Further comments interjected below. JONATHAN NITZAN: We, on the other hand, still feel a little insecure. We feel that we do not understand these central processes of accumulation very well, and that the only way to theorize capitalism is to study them in depth and in detail

Re: [PEN-L] My beef with the fetishization of ficticiousness

is unit indeed was the building block underlying the process of accumulation. The issue is not that this is a socially created category, or that it is unhelpful or helpful in some sense. In our view, the issue is whether abstract labor DOES exist as a socially created category, and indeed, whethe

[PEN-L] Breadth and Depth

er se produced DIFFERENTIAL capitalization? An interesting question to explore. Jonathan Nitzan "New Imperialism or New Capitalism?" http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/archive/0124/

[PEN-L] Capitalization and risk

of investors. Can we possibly ignore it? Jonathan Nitzan "New Imperialism or New Capitalism?" http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/archive/0124/

[PEN-L] References on differential accumulation

/ On military spending: Bichler, Shimshon, and Jonathan Nitzan. 1996. “Military Spending and Differential Accumulation: A New Approach to the Political Economy of Armament -- The Case of Israel.” Review of Radical Political Economics 28 (1): 51-95. http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/archive/0012/ On

[PEN-L] The "delinking thesis"

tion has a degree of rationality. Once you let what Jonathan calls power and I would call fictitious value enter into the scheme, the system runs amok until crises establish more of a link between prices and the underlying values, and the cycle begins again. ^^^^^^ Jonathan Nitzan [new]: T

Re: [PEN-L] power

y / marginal productivity." I just wonder how we can tell the two stories apart. (Many theories can be use without measurement. The question is whether we can claim that something can and cannot be measured at the same time.) Jonathan Nitzan http://www.bnarchives.net Devine, James wrote: Mi

Re: [PEN-L] power

What I'm trying to say, Jim, is that to observe prices and to conclude from these observations about theoretical values and theoretical utility/productivity is to go in the wrong direction. I always thought that theory should explain the world, not the other way around. Jonathan Nitzan

Re: [PEN-L] power

OK, so I won't ask serious theory to explain prices. Carrol Cox wrote: Jonathan Nitzan wrote: What I'm trying to say, Jim, is that to observe prices and to conclude from these observations about theoretical values and theoretical utility/productivity is to go in the wrong direction

Re: [PEN-L] power

Laws of Motion: The tendency of the rate of profit to fall. The rate of profit is computed in prices. The reasons for the tendency derive from values. The tendency of capitalism to generate repeated profitability crises. Profitability is measured in prices. The crises are explained in terms of valu

[PEN-L] My beef with the fetishization of ficticiousness

analyses. But unless these processes affect depreciation or technology, they are irrelevant for the value of capital itself.” Jonathan Nitzan http://www.bnarchives.net

[PEN-L] Nomos

rx to Aristotle and from Aristotle to Ourselves." In /Crossroads in the Labyrinth/. Brighton, Sussex: The Harvester Press Limited, pp. 260-339. Jonathan Nitzan http://www.bnarchives.net

Re: [PEN-L] Socially created categories

that social categories, including abstract labor, are creatures of the nomos, and yet he proceeded to deal with them, at least in part, with methods that draw on the physis. That is one aspect of Castoriadis's argument. Jonathan Nitzan http://www.bnarchives.net

Re: [PEN-L] Socially created categories

I suppose that settles the value problem. Louis Proyect wrote: draw on the physis. That is one aspect of Castoriadis's argument. Jonathan Nitzan http://www.bnarchives.net http://www.internationalism.org/wr/213_castoriadis.htm Death of Cornelieus Castoriadis: Bourgeoisie pays homage to one o

Re: [PEN-L] Socially created categories

a "lower level of analysis" and what not. You may remember that in my first email to the list about "New Capitalism, or New Imperialism?" I suggested that: “Those who are comfortable with the classical dichotomy between "real" values and "nominal" prices need

Re: [PEN-L] power [and the limits to power]

rices, "as if" or in practice. By contrast, capitalists are able to continuously judge their ability to predict earnings. I agree that "risk" is a very fluid concept. But given its crucial importance in capitalization, can we afford to ignore it? Jonathan Nitzan http://www.b

Re: [PEN-L] power [and the limits to power]

irrational “deviations” of some sort or another (blamed on monopoly, supply and demand, government intervention, the IMF, speculative bubbles, accumulation by dispossession, or simply white noise). I find neither solutions particularly appealing. I wonder what others on the list think. Jonathan N

Re: [PEN-L] Socially created categories

basis of a more adequate theory of capital accumulation, with special emphasis on the interaction of its real and financial aspects, than we now possess”. (Sweezy 1991) Jonathan Nitzan http://www.bnarchives.net

Re: [PEN-L] power [and the limits to power]

e “known.” It is a matter of opinion. I think the phenomena we deal with in our work are pretty important for understanding 20^th century capitalism. What is your view? Jonathan Nitzan http://www.bnarchives.net

Re: [PEN-L] power [and the limits to power]

are. After all it IS the way things are. JN: Interesting presentation. Question: if we abandon value, don’t we need an alternative theory to understand the “way things are”? (or does the end of value make capitalism patternless?) Jonathan Nitzan http://www.bnarchives.net

Re: [PEN-L] Socially created categories

it causes a gap in people's knowledge. Party members are not as dumb as a lot of people think. Take a look at _The Unstable Economy_ and _Superprofits and Crises_ by Victor Perlo. These issues are discussed at length. Perlo analyses inflation as a monopoly price fixing , for example. More below Ch

Re: [PEN-L] Socially created categories

out it honestly, you will see that a lot of what you are saying _is_ in the writers I sent you. JN: That's precisely the problem, Charles. We are dishonest. Charles Brown wrote: Jonathan Nitzan : No hard feelings, but I don't see the point of continuing this exchange. From your commenta

Re: [PEN-L] "realized" capital gains

selvesâ (Thorstein Veblen, Absetnee Ownership) Jonathan Nitzan michael perelman wrote: Can anyone point me to a good source for realized capital gains? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901

Re: [PEN-L] Deficits, the Dollar, and IEDs

1. Creditors and debtors are functional descriptors, not distinct social classes. In their capacity as owners of corporations, most of the large capitalists are both creditors and debtors. Furthermore, the impact of inflation on profit and on fixed income (absolutely and differentially) is an open

[PEN-L] The Scientist and the Church by Nitzan and Bichler

THE SCIENTIST AND THE CHURCH By Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler The full article: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/185/ 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 –

[PEN-L] New items in the Bichler & Nitzan Archives

Greetings: Two new items have been deposited in The Nitzan & Bichler Archives. To see the What's New page, click on the URL: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/perl/latest Jonathan Nitzan

[PEN-L] Letter to Kofi Annan

PLEASE FIND ENCLOSED A MESSAGE FOR WIDE CIRCULATION FROM AKIVA ORR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). ** The Israeli Committee For a Middle East Free from Atomic, Biological & Chemical Weapons P.O Box 16202 Tel Aviv, 61161, Israel, Tel/Fax +972-(0

[PEN-L] Imperialism and Plagiarism

"Imperialism and Plagiarism" by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan in Swans (Many 22, 2006) http://www.swans.com/library/art12/anews02.html - Jonathan Nitzan Political Science, York University

[PEN-L] Imperialism and Plagiarism (correct link)

"Imperialism and Plagiarism" by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan in Swans (Many 22, 2006) The correct link: http://www.swans.com/library/art12/nitzan01.html - Jonathan Nitzan Political Sci

[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: New Items

ew ways in which capital gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present. Full text (1.2 MB in PDF format): http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/203/ - Jonathan Nitzan

[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: a new item

"The Profits of War." Doug Henwood interviews Jonathan Nitzan on WBAI 99.5 FM. 3 August, 2006. MP3 audio, 25 minutes http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/204/ - Jonathan Nitzan Political Science, York

[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: "Cheap Wars"

/specials/cheapwars FULL TEXT AND EXCEL DATA The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/205/ --- Jonathan Nitzan email: nitzan at yorku.ca website: www.bnarchives.net Political Science, York University 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario

[PEN-L] The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: "Inflation As Restructuring"

oncentration amidst severe stagflation. FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/207/ ----- Jonathan Nitzan Political Science, York University 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3, Canada Voice: (416) 736-2100