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2025-08-12
Originally published at notes on cinema James McMahon To most of us, the beating heart of Hollywood film and TV is where we imagine it is supposed to be, in the historical studio lots of …
2025-07-18
Abstract This paper tries to answer the question: in what ways does the logic of capital accumulation shape the organization of hospital care in the US – a sector characterized by a preponderance of both …
2025-05-14
Regan Boychuk British, American, and Russian elites planned global domination through one great war a century ago, but it did not quite work out. Instead, today we approach a third world war to avoid democracy …
2025-05-02
Originally published at pluralistic.net Reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license Cory Doctorow You know how “realist” has become a synonym for “asshole?” As in, “I’m not a racist, I’m just a ‘race realist?'” …
2025-04-09
Originally published at notes on cinema James McMahon I will be presenting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference on Friday, April 4 at 6PM. Here is the chart book for the …
2025-04-02
Abstract An early analysis of the imperialist implications of the surge of global commodity prices was conducted in 2014 by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. However, their analysis did not consider how the US monetary …
Review of Capital as Power (RECASP)
2025-02-24
Capital as Power in the 21st Century A Conversation MICHAEL HUDSON, JONATHAN NITZAN, TIM DI MUZIO, and BLAIR FIX February 2025 Abstract On December 3, 2024, Michael Hudson met with capital-as-power researchers Jonathan Nitzan, Tim …
2023-09-12
The Capital as Power Approach An Invited-then-Rejected Interview with Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan SHIMSHON BICHLER and JONATHAN NITZAN September 2023 Keywords capital accumulation, capitalization, interview, Marxism, modes of power, stagflation, systemic fear, value theory …
2023-09-12
Manuscripts Don’t Burn SHIMSHON BICHLER and JONATHAN NITZAN September 2023 Keywords censorship, ideology, marxism, neoliberalilsm, peer review, plagiarism Citation Bichler, Shimshon, and Nitzan, Jonathan. 2023. ‘Manuscripts Don’t Burn’. Review of Capital as Power, Vol. 2, …
2023-01-17
The Business of Strategic Sabotage SHIMSHON BICHLER and JONATHAN NITZAN January 2023 Abstract In a recent article, Nicolas D. Villarreal claims that our empirical analysis of the relation between business power and industrial sabotage in …
2022-06-23
Pensions and Power The Political and Market Dynamics of Public Pension Plans ERALD KOLASI June 2022 Abstract This paper uses the theory of ‘capital as power’ to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the …
2022-05-03
Costly Efficiencies Healthcare Spending, COVID-19, and the Public/Private Healthcare Debate CHRIS MOURÉ May 2022 Abstract Proponents of private healthcare often claim that the private sector is more ‘efficient’ at delivering healthcare services. This paper tests …
Blog
2025-08-12
Originally published at notes on cinema James McMahon To most of us, the beating heart of Hollywood film and TV is where we imagine it is supposed to be, in the historical studio lots of …
2025-05-14
Regan Boychuk British, American, and Russian elites planned global domination through one great war a century ago, but it did not quite work out. Instead, today we approach a third world war to avoid democracy …
2025-05-02
Originally published at pluralistic.net Reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license Cory Doctorow You know how “realist” has become a synonym for “asshole?” As in, “I’m not a racist, I’m just a ‘race realist?'” …
2025-04-09
Originally published at notes on cinema James McMahon I will be presenting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference on Friday, April 4 at 6PM. Here is the chart book for the …
2024-08-20
Coda to the 6-part series Alberta’s Rockefeller Coups Regan Boychuk Since a small and relatively weak people living alongside a great and powerful people necessarily devotes much time to study and observation of its large …
2024-03-22
Originally published at sbhager.com Sandy Brian Hager Reading in the latest FT Weekend about NovoNordisk’s recent moves to corner the market for weight loss drugs, I was reminded of an eye-opening article from Rana Foroohar …
Publications
2025-04-02
Abstract An early analysis of the imperialist implications of the surge of global commodity prices was conducted in 2014 by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. However, their analysis did not consider how the US monetary …
2025-03-24
Abstract National champion policies in BRICS countries pose challenges for governance in global meat processing markets as they increase concentration, reduce competition and enhance corporate power in food systems. We investigate the degree to which …
2025-03-03
Abstract El 3 de diciembre de 2024, Michael Hudson se reunió con los investigadores del capital como poder Jonathan Nitzan, Tim Di Muzio y Blair Fix para discutir las intersecciones entre sus dos líneas de …
2024-12-16
Abstract Our recent article on ‘The Road to Gaza’ examined the history of the three supreme-God churches and the growing role of their militias in armed conflicts and wars around the world. The present paper …
2024-12-06
Abstract The concepts of rentiership and intellectual monopoly have gained increased prominence in discussions about the transformation of global capitalism in recent years. However, there have been few if any attempts to construct measures for …
2024-11-28
Abstract In the face of the impending climate emergency, an anonymous manifesto surfaces online by the mysterious El Grillo declaring a war on cars. As the manifesto spreads around the world, activists from all over …
Working Papers on Capital as Power
2025-07-18
Abstract This paper tries to answer the question: in what ways does the logic of capital accumulation shape the organization of hospital care in the US – a sector characterized by a preponderance of both …
2025-03-06
Abstract This study examines the declining usage lifespan of household consumer durables in the United States between 1970 and 2018, situating the phenomenon within a heterodox political economy framework. While mainstream economic narratives attribute the …
2024-08-19
Abstract Our recent article on ‘The Road to Gaza’ examined the history of the three supreme-God churches and the growing role of their militias in armed conflicts and wars around the world. The present paper …
2024-08-15
Abstract Much of the economic analysis of banking crises focuses on the interplay between concentration and stability. A common theory is that concentration is associated with greater stability, whereas competition is associated with instability. In …
2024-08-14
Abstract Hager’s project examines the historical development of US public debt ownership and its political implications. His main innovation is to approach the topic from the perspective of disaggregated social class and frame questions of …
2024-08-13
Abstract The war that started in 2023 between Hamas and Israel is driven by various long-lasting processes, but it also brings to the fore a new cause that hitherto seemed marginal: the armed militias of …
Forum
2025-04-22
Jonathan Nitzan
Jonathan Nitzan
Keynes considered the accumulation urge useful in bringing humanity to a state of material bliss, after which it would be recognized for what it was — a pathological condition befitting the psychiatrist couch. Had he …
2025-04-20
max gr
max gr
“…Of course there will still be many people with intense, unsatisfied purposiveness who will blindly pursue wealth—unless they can find some plausible substitute. But the rest of us will no longer be under any obligation …
2025-04-17
max gr
max gr
Surprisingly, the above question became relevant again, so if someone has any thoughts about the matter, any feedback would be welcome. …
2025-04-16
Pieter de Beer
Pieter de Beer
Hi Max, thank you for your response. max gr wrote: if those definitions include power than it is unclear why we should think of power as an “emergent” property of coordination The dimensions describe …
2025-04-16
max gr
max gr
Thanks for sharing this, Pieter. Some quick thoughts about the analytical framework itself: Pieter de Beer wrote: Origin of coordination: who or what initiates the process, and with what legitimacy or authority. This “dimension”, …
2025-04-16
Pieter de Beer
Pieter de Beer
I just finished Angela Davis’s Freedom is a Constant Struggle, and honestly it hits hard in all the right ways. It’s a mix of speeches, essays, and convos that somehow manage to feel super immediate …
Bichler & Nitzan Archives
2025-06-26
James McMahon
James McMahon
FROM THE POST: To most of us, the beating heart of Hollywood film and TV is where we imagine it is supposed to be, in the historical studio lots of Hollywood, California. This must be …
2025
Elfer G. Miranda Valdivia & Froylán E. Miranda Lozano
Elfer G. Miranda Valdivia & Froylán E. Miranda Lozano
RESUMEN. Los autores exploran la teoría de El capital como poder de los economistas Bichler y Nitzan, que redefine el capital como institución central del capitalismo al cuantificar el poder mediante la capitalización y acumulación …
2025-07-28
Niv Meyerson & Max Grubman
Niv Meyerson & Max Grubman
איך מבני הכוח הכלכליים ומבני הבעלות התעשייתיים הביאו אותנו למשבר הסביבתי ולאי-השוויון הנוכחי? ומה צריך לשנות כדי להימנע מקטסטרופה אקולוגית וחברתית בפרק הזה שוחחנו עם מקס גרובמן, חוקר מדיניות סביבתית וכלכלה פוליטית במרכז …
2025-07
Christopher Mouré & Shai Gorsky
Christopher Mouré & Shai Gorsky
This paper tries to answer the question: in what ways does the logic of capital accumulation shape the organization of hospital care in the US – a sector characterized by a preponderance of both public …
2025-06
Ali Al-Azhari, Herzl Schubert, Giyora Neumann & Shimshon Bichler
Ali Al-Azhari, Herzl Schubert, Giyora Neumann & Shimshon Bichler
ישבנו בקפה "עברי" בדרום תל אביב ותהינו מה יהיה עם הישראלים: האם הם יוכרחו ללמוד היסטוריה בדרך הקשה? מה, הם לא קלטו כלום מאז הכיבוש ב-67? או לפחות מאז לבנון הראשונה, השנייה? האינתיפאדה הראשונה, השנייה? …
2025-06-03
Pieter De Beer
Pieter De Beer
The global system we inhabit is often described in terms of markets, capital, and labor, but beneath these abstractions lies the deeper question of how coordination produces power and how power organizes coordination. Among the …