Any heterodox project is compelled to begin by articulating a problem or set of problems it proposes to address (otherwise why heterodoxically begin at all?). When studying finance at our present moment, the particular problem to which we are alerted […]
Why even do political finance with Deleuze?
Spyros Lapatsioras/John Milios/Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos Financial intermediation is a sui generis service itself and is therefore a productive activity striving for profit maximization, like any other sector of the capitalist economy. read here
Capitalism, financial system and forms of exploitation
Capitalism was always, and will never cease to be exploitative, domineering, speculative. But it will not disintegrate or decay due to its exploitative, domineering, speculative character, certainly not due to the supposedly specifically “predatory” function of the financial sphere –
Value, Fictitious Capital and Finance.The timeliness of Karl Marx’s Capital
Der Schweizer Soziologe Peter Streckeisen will „das Marx’sche Hauptwerk mit soziologischer Brille so neu lesen, dass es zur Inspirationsquelle einer Kritik an den üblichen Kapitalbegriffen sowie der konzeptuellen Schärfung und Weiterentwicklung soziologischer Kapitaltheorie werden kann“. (S. 14) Nachdem er vier
Michel Feher claims in his new book, Rated Agency, that capitalized capitalism, which started in 1970, is akin to a Copernican revolution in that the new regime of capital accumulation no longer focuses on industrial companies based on vertical integration and
THE AGE OF SPECULATIVE CAPITAL AND GLOBAL CIRCULATION FIGHTS
Nicht das Problem um die Übertragung des Werts bzw. der Reproduktion des Wertanteils des fixen Kapitals, das Marazzi in seinem Essay Die Amortisation der Körper-Maschine (Marazzi 2012: 35ff.) behandelt (dem zufolge das konstante Kapital durch die Operation der Übertragung zweimal
Gibt es einen maschinellen Mehrwert?
The “financial deregulation” since the 1970s has paradoxically in themselves the capacity and increase the demand for regulation, regulatory instruments, and regulatory agencies. The strengthening of market mechanisms at all levels requires a number of public, sub-state, and especially private,
CAPITAL IS FINANCE – THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MARXIST FINANCIAL THEORY
This text with images was originally presented at the Historical Materialism New York conference in May of 2011. Given the context, the text does not go into the sort of detail the matter really requires. A longer version is likely
This paper argues that the conception of ‘money endogeneity’ formulated and defended by Post-Keynesian economists can be founded on a coherent and theoretically sound way only on the basis of Marx’s theory of value, which the author comprehends as the
On the Question of Money Endogeneity: Marx vs. the Post-Keynesians
Der Kauf und Verkauf von Geldkapital, seien es nun in Form von Aktien, Wertpapieren oder Derivaten, wird an sog. Geld- oder Kapitalmärkten abgewickelt. Man sollte aber dringlichst vermeiden, hier den Begriff des Marktes womöglich als konkretes Universal überzustrapazieren, vielmehr wäre
Fiktives Kapital: Aus 1000 Euro mach 2000 Euro
Warum Leute reich werden und bleiben ist bereits hinlänglich gesagt. Brechts Diktum, dass Armut und privater Reichtum miteinander funktional verbunden sind, dass der private Reichtum Einzelner auf der relativen Verarmung der Vielen beruht, ist allgemein geläufig. Marx unterstrich, dass das
Am Ende des Metabolismus / Über die irre Himmelfahrt des Kapitalozäns
The rise of finance makes capitalist exploitation more effective but heav-ily reliant on market liquidity. When the latter evaporates, the whole setting quickly disintegrates. In other words, the demand for more discipline within capitalist power relations makes the economic milieu
Money in Marx: From value-form Analysis to an Understanding of Modern Capitalism