economics
Articles on economics and political economy.
Supply Side Economics: The New Phase of Capitalist Strategy in the Crisis
Cleaver's analysis of the development of New Right economic theory in the early 1980s with the idea of not merely criticising it, but of reading "it as the battle plans of the enemy in the class war".
This paper was written for the pilot issue of the French journal BABYLONE which was published in the Fall of 1981. It was translated and published in METROPOLI (Rome) and EL GALLO ILLUSTRADO (Mexico City) the same year.
SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS: THE NEW PHASE OF CAPITALIST STRATEGY IN THE CRISIS
by Harry Cleaver Assistant Professor of Economics University of Texas at Austin
Theses on Secular Crisis in Capitalism
Harry Cleaver's contribution to a critique on both the invincibility of capitalism after the fall of the Soviet Union and the ability of traditional Marxist theory to explain capital's continuing vulnerability.
This is a reworked set of notes presented to the session on "Secular Crisis in Capitalism: Attempts at Theorization" at the Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst Massachusetts, November 13, 1992. This text will be published in a forthcoming collection edited by Chronis Polychroniou called MARXISM AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM.
Thesis 1: We are in the midst of secular crisis.
Work is still the central issue - Harry Cleaver
Text by US academic Harry Cleaver, showing why work is still central to today's society, and that a Marxist economic analysis is still relevant.
Work is Still the Central Issue!*
New Words for New Worlds
Globalisation, Work and Class
GLOBALISATION, WORK, AND CLASS: SOME RESEARCH NOTES.
Massimo De Angelis
Paper presented at the conference "The Labour Debate", Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Warwick, 24 February 1999.
0. Introduction.
1. Competition, Abstract Labour and Fractal Geometry.
Towards a theory of Globalization as Strategy
Towards a theory of Globalization as Strategy
Paper to be presented at the annual conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy, Lisbon, November 1998.
Massimo De Angelis
(University of East London)
1. Introduction.
2. The conditions of the boundless profit making activity and the boundaries posed by society.
Capital Movements, Tobin Tax and Permanent Fire Prevention
Capital Movements, Tobin Tax and Permanent Fire Prevention:
A Critical Note.
Massimo De Angelis
May 1999
1. Introduction.
Synopsis of Capital
This is a synopsis of Capital, Volume I, written by Engels in 1868. Upon Capital's release, Engels began constructing a comprehensive summation
The Autonomy of the Economy and Globalization
The Autonomy of the Economy and Globalization Massimo De Angelis (University of East London)
vis - Ã - vis 4, Winter 1996
1. Introduction: The autonomy of the economy
Class and Subsidiarity: On European Monetary Union
Class and Subsidiarity: On European Monetary Union
Werner Bonefeld
Preamble
The following four quotations focus the essay's argument. The Preamble concludes with a fairly conventional observation on EMU by way of summary.
Capital, Labour and Primitive Accumulation
Capital, Labour and Primitive Accumulation
Werner Bonefeld
Marx died over his chapter on class in volume III of Capital. The analysis of capitalism is with necessity a class analysis (Ritsert, 1988) and generations of Marxists have sought to supply the Marxist 'definition' of class. I use the term 'definition' here with critical intent. How might it be possible to define 'class' within a critical project which emphasises that theoretical mysteries find their rational explanation in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice (cf. Marx, 1975, p. 5)? The 'definition' of the working class would require at least one additional definition, namely that of capital representing the other side of the class divide. Marx's critique of political economy showed that definitions of capital are self-contradictory and tautological. Might definitions of the working class not suffer a similar fate?
