Rosa Luxemburg’s analysis of crises from chapter 2 of ‘Reform or Revolution’, similarities to the 2008 crisis, and general comments on characteristically Marxist methods of analyzing the economy.
All tagged economy
An understanding of patterns of behaviors within institutions, taking notes from natural selection and the works of G.A. Cohen and Anwar Shaikh.
Asymmetries of Information: Intellectual Property & Social Capital
When we discuss inequality and injustice in our modern economy, should we put less emphasis on the asymmetries of ownership of physical means of production, and more emphasis on the unequal possession of knowledge and information?
I discuss ‘monopolies founded on intellectual property’ and ‘the economic role of universities to produce social capital’.