LEADER 03158nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9911038528803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-02230-1 010 $a1-282-15145-2 010 $a9786612151453 010 $a0-203-87632-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000761956 035 $a(EBL)432748 035 $a(OCoLC)436306076 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000117561 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128413 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117561 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10065120 035 $a(PQKB)10729022 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432748 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000761956 100 $a20081216d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCapital as power $ea study of order and creorder /$fJonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler 210 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, NY $cRoutledge$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (465 p.) 225 1 $aRIPE series in global political economy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-415-49680-2 311 08$a0-415-47719-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Why write a book about capital?; Part I: Dilemmas of political economy; 2 The dual worlds; 3 Power; 4 Deflections of power; Part II: The enigma of capital; 5 Neoclassical parables; 6 The Marxist entanglement I: Values and prices; 7 The Marxist entanglement II: Who is productive, who is not?; 8 Accumulation of what?; Part III: Capitalization; 9 Capitalization: A brief anthropology; 10 Capitalization: Fiction, mirror or distortion?; 11 Capitalization: Elementary particles; Part IV: Bringing power back in 327 $a12 Accumulation and sabotage13 The capitalist mode of power; Part V: Accumulation of power; 14 Differential accumulation and dominant capital; 15 Breadth; 16 Depth; 17 Differential accumulation: Past and future; References; Index 330 $aConventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an 'economic' entity that they count in universal units of 'utils' or 'abstract labour', respectively. But these units are totally fictitious. Nobody has ever been able to observe or measure them, and for a good reason: they don't exist. Since liberalism and Marxism depend on these non-existing units, their theories hang in suspension. They cannot explain the process that matters most - the accumulation of 410 0$aRIPE series in global political economy. 606 $aCapitalism 606 $aPower (Social sciences) 615 0$aCapitalism. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 676 $a332.04 676 $a332/.04 700 $aNitzan$b Jonathan$01855663 701 $aBichler$b Shimshon$01855664 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911038528803321 996 $aCapital as power$94453961 997 $aUNINA