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
lty lies not so much in the military nature of the
conflicts, as in the broader role that war now plays in capitalism.
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s in capitalism.
(Arabic translation by Diab Zayed.)
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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
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
et Hype (1996)
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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
Orr, Akiva (2007) "Homage to Nissan Rilov," Tnuvot, Israel, March 12.
ABSTRACT
Akiva Orr pays homage to a brave and honest man.
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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
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...
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of capital and its political regime, providing background
that is missing from the Israeli literature.
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"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
Israel's Roaring Economy
by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan
June 2007
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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.
"Israel's Roaring Economy"
by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan, June 2007
REPRINTS
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L'ECONOMIA D'ORO ISRAELIANA
DEI SHIMSHON BICHLER E JONATHAN NITZAN
Traduzione per comedonchisciotte a cura di MICAELA MARRI.
Martedì, 17 luglio 2007
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Molti osservatori dello scenario israeliano sono rimasti perplessi di
fronte all’evidente
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
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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
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
? 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.
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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
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
er se produced DIFFERENTIAL
capitalization? An interesting question to explore.
Jonathan Nitzan
"New Imperialism or New Capitalism?"
http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/archive/0124/
of
investors. Can we possibly ignore it?
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"New Imperialism or New Capitalism?"
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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
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
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.)
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Devine, James wrote:
Mi
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
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
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
analyses. But unless these processes affect depreciation or technology,
they are irrelevant for the value of capital itself.”
Jonathan Nitzan
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rx to Aristotle and from Aristotle to Ourselves." In /Crossroads in
the Labyrinth/. Brighton, Sussex: The Harvester Press Limited, pp. 260-339.
Jonathan Nitzan
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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
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I suppose that settles the value problem.
Louis Proyect wrote:
draw on the physis. That is one aspect of Castoriadis's argument.
Jonathan Nitzan
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http://www.internationalism.org/wr/213_castoriadis.htm
Death of Cornelieus Castoriadis: Bourgeoisie pays homage to one o
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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
selvesâ (Thorstein Veblen, Absetnee Ownership)
Jonathan Nitzan
michael perelman wrote:
Can anyone point me to a good source for realized capital gains?
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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
THE SCIENTIST AND THE CHURCH
By Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler
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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 –
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"Imperialism and Plagiarism" by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan in
Swans (Many 22, 2006)
http://www.swans.com/library/art12/anews02.html
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"Imperialism and Plagiarism" by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan in
Swans (Many 22, 2006)
The correct link:
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ew ways in which capital gets
accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century
capitalism up to the present.
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"The Profits of War." Doug Henwood interviews Jonathan Nitzan on WBAI
99.5 FM. 3 August, 2006.
MP3 audio, 25 minutes
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oncentration
amidst severe stagflation.
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