Constant Capital and the Crisis in Contemporary Capitalism: Echoes from the Late Nineteenth Century

“Constant Capital and the Crisis in Contemporary Capitalism: Echoes from the Late Nineteenth Century” looks at the current crisis in light of how economists showed a superior understanding of the way the economy worked during the late nineteenth century.

http://users.ntua.gr/jea/tua/journl/jea_volume1_issue1_pp34_41.pdf

Comments would be very much appreciated.

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  1. political economist on

    Michael,

    As usual, always a pleasure to read your work. Made me think of all the constant capital that is “fully depreciated” and moved somewhere else, like China. And of Motorola’s Iridium satellite program, perhaps the most massive, quick depreciation of capital.

    More substantively, I wondered why in Part II of your paper you did not include a fifth: the social relationship of capital to the state?

    One question of clarification: Near the top of page 38, 2nd sentence, didn’t understand what you meant “without knowledge of c, measurement of C becomes impossible.” I assume you meant OCC rather than C.


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