Book · 2009 · Political Science
Capital as Power
A Study of Order and Creorder
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If you want to know more about this, read their book capitalist power. It's quite good. I am mentioning them because I am about to misuse their argument completely.
The best things said about it
If you're really curious about this, the book Capital is Power, Capital as Power has uh a really great explanation of it in chapter 5 that's pretty short. uh you can just literally find a PDF of capitalist power by just googling it.
Then there's a bunch of dissident heterodox schools and there's a whole bunch of these um and one of them is called the capital as power school which is named after a book uh called capital as power by uh the these two professors called Bickler and Nitson.
Why people recommend it
Capital as Power by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler is an influential heterodox economic text that reimagines capitalism as a system driven by power rather than purely material production. On Behind the Bastards, Mia Wong recommended the book on December 14, 2024, telling listeners to pick it up if they wanted a deeper understanding of how modern pricing and corporate structures operate. James Stout also recommended the work on August 3, 2024, pointing out that chapter five offers a remarkably concise and helpful explanation of the Cambridge capital controversy, adding that a PDF can easily be found online. Earlier, on September 16, 2023, John Michael Colón discussed the book on the podcast while outlining various dissident economic traditions. He explained that the entire capital as power school of political economy derives its name from this specific volume by the two professors. Across these episodes, the book served as a vital theoretical touchstone for critiquing orthodox economic dogma and tracing how institutional power shapes financial systems.
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James Stout if you're really curious about this, the book Capital is Power, Capital as Power has uh a really great expl… 1
“if you're really curious about this, the book Capital is Power, Capital as Power has uh a really great explanation of it in chapter 5 that's pretty short. uh you can just literally find a PDF of capitalist power by just googling it.”
Mia Wong If you want to know more about this, read their book capitalist power. It's quite good. I am mentioning the… 1
“If you want to know more about this, read their book capitalist power. It's quite good. I am mentioning them because I am about to misuse their argument completely”
John Michael Colón Then there's a bunch of dissident heterodox schools and there's a whole bunch of these um and one of them i… 1
“Then there's a bunch of dissident heterodox schools and there's a whole bunch of these um and one of them is called the capital as power school which is named after a book uh called capital as power by uh the these two professors called Bickler and Nitson”
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“Uh if you do care about this, uh don't yell at me. Go read chapter six of uh Bickler and Neon's capitalist power. Paul's Maddox's theory is critique. Fred Mosley's uh money in totality and Kilman and McLur's a temporal single system interpretation of Marx's theory of value Marx's value theory and and Google ducttales go big genuinely”