EconoFiction

Die Kriegsmaschinen des Kapitals (unter Berücksichtigung der Sanktionen gegen Russland)

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-02-28 / EconoFiction / finance Krieg, Kriegsmaschinen des Kapitals, Neoliberalismus, Sanktionen, SWIFT, Zentralbank

Heute sind die politisch-ökonomischen Exekutiven der westlichen Staaten nicht mehr nur staatliche Apparate, sondern ein Ensemble von transnationalen Institutionen, die wesentlich vom Finanzkapital beherrscht werden. Während sie ultraliberal mit den Finanzströmen umgehen, entscheiden diese “Schatten”-Regierungen wie z.B. die EU (aber […]

Die Kriegsmaschinen des Kapitals (unter Berücksichtigung der Sanktionen gegen Russland)

Das Gespenst der Stagflation

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-02-16 / EconoFiction / inflation, Kapital, Kapitalisierung, lieferketten, Marxismus, Rohstoffpreise, Stagflation, stagnation, Zentralbank

Die Wachstumsprognosen sind düster für die Weltwirtschaft. Das Ifo-Institut senkte seine Prognose für die BRD für dieses Jahr von 3,3 auf 2,5 Prozent, während der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF) das Wachstum für das Bruttosozialprodukt (BIP) der USA auf sechs Prozent senkt.

Das Gespenst der Stagflation

Heterodox Economics vis-à-vis Crisis and Finance.Speculation of the ‘absentee rentier’ or Mechanism of disciplining social action?

Von John Milios / 2022-02-11 / EconoFiction / capital, derivatives, fictitious capital, finance, Keynes, marxism, rentiers

The 2007-2008 financial crisis is without precedent in the post-war period, a factacknowledged by the majority of economists. At the same time, the crisis is a ‘marginalmoment’ which unveils and helps us rethink the workings of contemporary capitalism. Thelatter is

Heterodox Economics vis-à-vis Crisis and Finance.Speculation of the ‘absentee rentier’ or Mechanism of disciplining social action?

Value

Von Joshua Clover / 2022-02-04 / EconoFiction, Lexicon / literature, marx, marxism, value

“Value” is a concept structured by confusing relations between its social-ethical and its economic meanings (“I agree with your values”; “the sweater is a great value at that price”). The two meanings cannot be kept separate, but the negotiation of

Value

Deleuze/Guattari and the synthetic Asset

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-01-31 / EconoFiction / Asset, capital, deleuze/guattari, derivatives, finance, marxism

By assets we do not mean – as usually assumed – individual assets or realizable income, nor investments in the form of goods or money, but very specific forms of speculative capital. We assume in this section a progressive differentiation

Deleuze/Guattari and the synthetic Asset

Labor Value and Labor as Value

Von Cli Ché / 2021-12-30 / EconoFiction / capital, labour, power, value

Temps Critiques The Performative Discourse of Power With its attacks against state handouts and its rejection of guaranteed income, Macron’s speech of November 9th on labor value (or on labor “as value”) was little more than a rehearsal of what Jospin1 had

Labor Value and Labor as Value

Capitalizing a future unsustainable: Finance, energy and the fate of market civilization

Von Tim Di Muzio / 2021-12-28 / EconoFiction / capitalization, energy, finance, fossile capital, peak oil, value

Liberal capitalist polities are being held up as the ultimate civilizational achievement precisely at a point in time when the energy-demanding built environments and growth imperatives of these societies are threatened by global climate change and the coming end of

Capitalizing a future unsustainable: Finance, energy and the fate of market civilization

Steve Keen’s The New Economics: A Manifesto

Von Bichler/Nitzan / 2021-12-26 / EconoFiction / Capital as Power, complexity, economy, nature, neoclassics

Steve Keen’s book, The New Economics: A Manifesto (2021), offers a new path for economics, and for good reason. In his view, neoclassicism, the paradigm that rules modern-day economics, has become a serious menace: I regard Neoclassical economics as not

Steve Keen’s The New Economics: A Manifesto

Excerpt from Chapter One of Frank Engster’s Book: Das Geld als Maß, Mittel und Methode Das Rechnen mit der Identität der Zeit

Von Frank Engster / 2021-12-23 / EconoFiction / capital, marx, marxism, money, time, value

The question of the book is how a radical critique of capitalism is possible when critique in the tradition of Kant and Hegel means that the criticized subject itself has to “give” the measure of its critique. The thesis is

Excerpt from Chapter One of Frank Engster’s Book: Das Geld als Maß, Mittel und Methode Das Rechnen mit der Identität der Zeit

The 1-2-3 toolbox of mainstream economics:Promising everything, delivering nothing

Von Bichler/Nitzan / 2021-12-17 / EconoFiction / main stream economics, neoclassics, science

,AbstractWe write this essay for both lay readers and scientists, though mainstream economists arewelcome to enjoy it too. Our subject is the basic toolbox of mainstream economics. The mostimportant tools in this box are demand, supply and equilibrium. All mainstream

The 1-2-3 toolbox of mainstream economics:Promising everything, delivering nothing

The Capitalist Degree of Immortality

Von Bichler/Nitzan / 2021-12-13 / EconoFiction / Capital as Power, capitalism, immortality

mmortality This note offers some speculative ideas worth considering. One of the key features of all hierarchical civilizations is their rulers’ fear of death. This fear was famously narrated in the ancient myth of Gilgamesh – the Sumerian king who

The Capitalist Degree of Immortality

Inflation is always and everywhere a redistributional phenomenon

Von Bichler/Nitzan / 2021-12-01 / EconoFiction / Capital as Power, inflation

Inflation is the average rate of change of individual money prices. In this narrow sense, Milton Friedman’s claim that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon is correct. But underlying the average rate of inflation, individual prices change at different rates. And in

Inflation is always and everywhere a redistributional phenomenon

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