CALL FOR PAPERS on the subject of "Capital as Power."
The present global crisis opens the door for theoretical alternatives.
The two main paradigms of capital accumulation – the neoclassical
utility theory of value and the Marxist labour theory of value – are in
disarray. Many leading neoclassicists now concede that their "world is
broken" and that their utilitarian "pillars of faith" have collapsed.
Marxists have been content to see these confessions, but they remain
unable to offer a convincing alternative based on labour values. These
failures call for a new theoretical, methodological and empirical
framework for rethinking capitalist valuation and accumulation – a
framework based not on utility or labour time, but on power.
We are calling for paper presentations to be organized in several
related panels under the general heading of "Capital as Power." The
papers can be theoretical, methodological or empirical, and they can
examine any aspect of capital as power. The panels will be included as
part of the upcoming "Rethinking Marxism" Conference, to be held on
November 5-8, 2009, at the University of Amherst Massachusetts.
http://rethinkingmarxism.org/conf/index.php/gala/NewMarxianTimes
If you wish to present a paper on one of these panels, please write to
Jonathan Nitzan ([email protected]). The conference registration deadline
is August 1, 2009. In order to set up our panels in a timely fashion, we
request your proposal (title and a 200 word abstract) to be sent in to
Nitzan by June 1, 2009.
Best wishes,
Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan
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Jonathan Nitzan
Political Science
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3
Canada
Voice: (416) 736-2100, ext. 88822
Fax: (416) 736-5686
Email: nitzan at yorku.ca
Website: http://bnarchives.net
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