Presents a fresh framework for understanding capital as a mode of power. Challenging the liberal and Marxist approaches, this book articulates a theory of accumulation, and develops empirical methods of research. Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. Num Pages: 464 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 29 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 702. . 2009. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415496802
ISBN 13: 9780415496803
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Conventional 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 capital.

This book offers a radical alternative. According to the authors, capital is not a narrow economic entity, but a symbolic quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production lines. Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of dominant capital groups to reshape – or creorder – their society.

Written in simple language, accessible to lay readers and experts alike, the book develops a novel political economy. It takes the reader through the history, assumptions and limitations of mainstream economics and its associated theories of politics. It examines the evolution of Marxist thinking on accumulation and the state. And it articulates an innovative theory of ‘capital as power’ and a new history of the ‘capitalist mode of power’.

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Jonathan Nitzan teaches political economy at York University in Toronto.

Shimshon Bichler teaches political economy at colleges and universities in Israel.

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