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This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance. The book also includes a detailed introduction to this novel thesis first put forward by Nitzan and Bichler in their
Capital as Power.
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Provocations of Capital as Power Tim Di Muzio Part I: The Provocation of History 2. Historicizing Capital as Power: Energy, Capitalization and Globalized Social Reproduction Tim Di Muzio Part II: The Provocations of a New Theory 3. The Power of Investment Banks: Surplus Absorption or Differential Capitalization? Sandy Brian Hager 4. NAFTA, Investiture and Distribution: The Power Underpinnings of Trade and Investment Liberalization in Canada Jordan Brennan 5. ‘A Degree of Control’: Corporations and the Struggle against South African Apartheid DT Cochrane and Jeffrey Monaghan Part III: The Provocation of Critique 6. Fighting the Power? Struggle and Resistance in ‘Capital as Power’ Dan Bousfield 7. State and Capital: False Dichotomy, Structural Super-Determinism, and Moving Beyond Sean Starrs 8. Differential Accumulation and the Political Economy of Power Samuel Knafo, Matthieu Hughes and Steffan Wyn-Jones 9. Conclusion
About the author
Tim Di Muzio is Lecturer in International Relations and Public Policy at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Summary
This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance. The book also includes a detailed introduction to this novel thesis first put forward by Nitzan and Bichler in their Capital as Power.
