Incalculable diffusion as a philosophy of doing
Les risques et conséquences de la canicule sur la production et le transport d’électricité
La canicule a plusieurs conséquences sur la production et le transport d’électricité. Les centrales baissent de régime (avec des conséquences sur…
Invisible Exploitation: How Capital Extracts Value Beyond Wage Labor - Monthly Review
Eva Swidler is an environmental political economist and social historian. She teaches at Goddard College and the Curtis Institute of Music. The Marxist analysis of work under capitalism has long... READ MORE
Labor-Value Commodity Chains: The Hidden Abode of Global Production - Monthly Review
Intan Suwandi is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. This article is adapted from her book, Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism, winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy-Paul A.... READ MORE
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser 1969-70
I must now expose more fully something which was briefly glimpsed in my analysis when I spoke of the necessity to renew the means of production if production is to be possible. That was a passing hint. Now I shall consider it for itself.
Le paradoxe de l’innovation
La hausse des dépenses de recherche et développement (R&D) ne stimule pas nécessairement la productivité aux États-Unis, les géants industriels se consacrant à défendre leur territoire
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information economics influenced a lot of my thinking on the eco…
La Grande Divergence
Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.
American Disruption
A new take on Trump’s tariffs, including using a disruption lens to understand the U.S.’s manufacturing problem, and why a better plan would leverage demand, not kill it.
Regenerative Economics - Principles
Our hope is that the Regenerative Economics materials act like a wildflower, taking root in even the smallest of cracks and spreading seeds to change the way economics is understood by young people around the world. The guiding principles: Facilitate change from the ground up: We recognise the
1% for the People
Capitalism is the undisputed powerplant of global prosperity. Since Adam Smith first described the “invisible hand” that allows economies to be efficiently self-organizing and self-renewing, every attempt to supplant it with a competing system has failed spectacularly.
"Greedflation" and the Profits Equation
The assumption behind the "greedflation" thesis is that companies are choosing to squeeze volumes because they care more about unit margins than total profits. There are other possibilities.
Networked computing, in a fundamental way, changed the producer-consumer relationship we have with corporations. In the material world that relationship ends with the transfer of material and money; I buy a pencil and some paper, and the producer is out of the picture while I use them to write.
