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Open ScienceResearch StoriesBookdownCapital As PowerWirtschaftswissenschaftenEnglisch
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Exciting news! Capital as Power — the seminal text written by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler — is now available for free as both an epub and online book. Full disclosure: the typesetter was yours truly. What’s Capital as Power ? And why did I make a free ebook version? Read on to find out. You must unlearn what you have learned 1 I don’t talk much on this blog about my personal journey.

EnergyHuman WelfareLife ExpectancyResidual AnalysisThe Good LifeWirtschaftswissenschaftenEnglisch
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Here are 10 countries that are beating the energy-life expectancy trend and 10 countries that are falling behind.

ModelsMoneyAdministered PricesCapital As PowerDifferential InflationWirtschaftswissenschaftenEnglisch
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In a new video, Jonathan Nitzan demolishes the neoclassical theory of prices. Here’s a summary and some consequences.

EnergyHierarchyAmerican EmpireBritish EmpireChinese EmpireWirtschaftswissenschaftenEnglisch
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The rise and fall of empires is written in the language of energy. Let’s have a look at this ‘energy book’ and see why America won’t be ‘great’ again.

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I’ve always been baffled why ‘modern monetary theory’ is called a theory . I don’t mean this in a disparaging way. As far as theories of money go, I think modern monetary theory (MMT for short) is the correct one. But having a correct theory of money is a bit like having a correct theory of traffic lights. Traffic lights (like money) are a social convention.