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SUMMARY:The Big Tech Monopolies and the State with Grace Blakeley
DESCRIPTION:SOCIALIST REGISTER SERIES: Beyond Digital Capitalism\n \nAs the effects of the coronavirus pandemic swept through the global economy\, the average observer could have been forgiven for missing a critical piece of news: by May 2020\, the combined market capitalization of the four largest US tech companies reached one fifth of the entire S&P 500. Four companies – Microsoft\, Apple\, Amazon and Facebook – now account for 20 per cent of the combined value of the 500 largest US corporations – an unparalleled level of market concentration. Forty years these corporate entitites were either just beyond being plucky start-ups\, or did not even exist. Monopolistic tendencies are not limited to the tech sector. In 1975\, the largest 100 US companies accounted for nearly half of the earnings of all publicly listed companies; by 2015\, their share reached 84 per cent. \nCapitalist corporations appear monopolistic when they are able to access the investment needed to gain total market dominance – and as the 21st Century has progressed\, this has proven easier than ever\, especially in big tech. The tech companies emerged in a world of falling profits and associated rising volatility in financial markets – both of which facilitated their access to investment. Many of these companies were initially either unprofitable or loss making\, as they had not yet developed to a sufficient size to exploit the network effects that would provide the foundation for their monopoly-like power. As a result\, they required significant amounts of upfront investment to maintain their operations and to scale up to reach a position of market dominance that would allow them to turn a profit. \nThe most propitious time for these firms to access such investment was in the wake of a crisis that had depressed returns and when investors were desperately seeking out the next big thing. For the tech companies\, this meant either the tech crisis of the early 2000s\, when Google launched its IPO\, or the financial crisis of 2008\, when companies such as Facebook and Twitter went public. The cheap capital – in part a result of unorthodox monetary policy – swashing around the global economy in the wake of a financial crisis that had depressed returns everywhere provided the perfect conditions for these plucky tech companies to become the behemoths that we know today. \nGrace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune and author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to pay and would like to attend the event\, please write to info@marxedproject.org and a link with the URL will be sent to you for the link by which to join in for this event.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-big-tech-monopolies-and-the-state-with-grace-blakeley/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Class,Financialization,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-06-07/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-31/
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-24/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-17/
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-10/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-05-03/
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-26/
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-19/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-12/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Money and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Capital Studies Organizing Task Force\n10 sessions \nThere has been much talk in recent years about the “financialization” of capitalism and the increasingly dominant and totally destructive role of money and finance. But what exactly is “financialization” and is this something truly new for capitalism or simply the latest manifestation of a phenomenon and process that has earlier historical roots and is basic and fundamental to the way that capitalism functions? And\, what is the role of money and finance in 21st century capitalism?  \nTo understand “financialization” and the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s\, this reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then\, including Marxist\, Keynesian\, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.  \nLapavitsas and Itoh argue that monetary and financial instability has roots in capitalist production and trade\, as well as in the defects of the mechanisms of money and finance. Thus\, no mix of policies can fully establish monetary and financial harmony\, though different policies can significantly ameliorate or worsen instability. To sustain its central claim\, the book also re-examines the historical and logical origin of money\, the creation of interest bearing capital\, the spontaneous emergence of the capitalist credit system\, the process of capitalist crisis\, and the nature and function of the central banks. In addition\, by presenting insights from Japanese political economy largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon economics\, the authors contribute to a radical political economy based on a thorough historical analysis of capitalism.  \nThe Capital Studies Organizing Task Force are workers and allies who gather frequently to study the three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, in order to be concrete in our analysis of capital and to better inform the class struggles against capitalists and their collaborators.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-economy-of-money-and-finance/2018-04-05/
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