Capitalism

About: Capitalism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 27714 publications have been published within this topic receiving 858042 citations.

States and Markets in an Era of Globalization

Abstract: The paper considers how states and markets shape one another at the national and world-system levels and how globalization is transforming that relationship. This process is illustrated through a review of research on liberal, social rights, developmental, and socialist states in the postwar capitalist economy. These state models were reconciled with expanding international markets through a series of controls on trade and capital flows. Globalization has undermined many of these controls so that states must increasingly integrate themselves into local and global networks. States are experimenting with organizational and strategic changes nationally and internationally in order to respond to a networked economy and polity. Neoliberal institutions are the dominant force shaping the relation between states and markets in the contemporary era, but alternative state-society alliances are emerging to contest the hegemony of neoliberalism in shaping globalization.

Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today

Abstract: Part 1: Value 1. Value, Exploitation and Profit 2. Bohm-Bawerk and Hilferding 3 I I Rubin-Essays on Marx's Theory of Value. Appendix The Problem of "Reproduction " in Capital. Part 2: Capital and Laws of Tendency 4. Epistemology, Causality and Laws of Tendency 5. The Contradictory Combination of the Forces and Relations of Production 6. The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Decline Part 3: Classes and the Structure of the Social Formation 7. Classical Marxism 8. Determination in the Last Instance 9. Mode of Production, Social Formation, Classes 10. Possession of and Separation from the Means of Production 11. Agents and Social Relations 12. Economic Class-Relations and the Organisation of Production 13. Conclusion

The Political Economy of Myanmar’s Transition

Abstract: Since holding elections in 2010, Myanmar has transitioned from a direct military dictatorship to a formally democratic system and has embarked on a period of rapid economic reform. After two decades of military rule, the pace of change has startled almost everyone and led to a great deal of cautious optimism. To make sense of the transition and assess the case for optimism, this article explores the political economy of Myanmar’s dual transition from state socialism to capitalism and from dictatorship to democracy. It analyses changes within Myanmar society from a critical political economy perspective in order to both situate these developments within broader regional trends and to evaluate the country’s current trajectory. In particular, the emergence of state-mediated capitalism and politico-business complexes in Myanmar’s borderlands are emphasised. These dynamics, which have empowered a narrow oligarchy, are less likely to be undone by the reform process than to fundamentally shape the contours of re...