Left Side of the Story: Labour, Welfare, and Workplace
By Cultural Shifts and Berrak Kabasakal — April 10th, 2008
The fourth panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Periodizing our Current Moment: Work-Well-Fare As a New Mode of Social Regulation
By Matthew Lymburner — April 2nd, 2008
The title of my paper contains an assortment of words relevant to current labor studies – networks, struggle, unions – but one word, or more aptly, one concept, will certainly stand out as peculiar: work-well-fare. What is this concept? What does it mean? I argue …
From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen — April 1st, 2008
The third panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
Governance 2.0: Virtual Space, Virtual Economies
By Eliot Che — April 1st, 2008
What do virtual worlds mean for governance, production and identity? What is the relationship between these new spaces and contemporary capitalism? In this paper, I explore some of the political-economic implications of technological transformation and reflect on the social effects of producing, communicating and existing …
Blurring the Lines: Globalization, Dissent and Democracy
By Cultural Shifts and Daniel Tubb — March 22nd, 2008
The second panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
The Internationalization / Transnationalization of the State and its Relation to Low-Intensity Democracy: The Case of Haiti
By Ray Silvius and Neil Burron — March 22nd, 2008
Historical materialist scholarship has, from the time of Marx, reflected the manner in which economics transcends national borders. Bastian van Apeldoorn (2004: 143) encapsulates this sentiment, writing that “the world of international relations has from the start been inextricably bound up with the expanding capitalist …
IP Rights and New Technologies: Pills, Pirates & Sex Dolls
By Cultural Shifts and Eliot Che — March 18th, 2008
Comments on the first panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man
By Elizabeth Record — March 18th, 2008
Looking at the changing interactions between the organic and inanimate constructions of capitalism.
North American Integration and Copyright Policy: The Case of Canada
By Blayne Haggart — March 18th, 2008
Regional integration is a political process, embedded in a network of domestic, global and regional treaties, institutions, organizations and politics. Copyright policy provides an ideal lens through which to examine the distinctive development of North American integration. Like regional integration, copyright policy, which is moving …
Skipping Over the Bourgeoisie Moment of Expropriation
By Armagan Teke — February 17th, 2008
Primitive accumulation - a concept Marx previously used for addressing the initial inhumane stage of capitalism at which both the expropriation of the producers from the means of production and transformation of them into wage-labourers took place - has long been an absent reference point …
Wal-Mart: The Bank
By D. T. Cochrane — January 28th, 2008
Although it has been met with stiff resistance in its efforts to offer banking services in the US, Wal-Mart has succeeded in opening a bank in Mexico. It plans to open 80 more by the end of 2008. Located within their …
Money, Debt and the Subprime Crisis
By Eliot Che — January 27th, 2008
There is a short animated documentary called Money as Debt worth checking out. The video, which goes through a brief history of monetary and banking systems, raises a number of questions that relate to the US subprime crisis, not to mention the global financial …
$7.3 billion gone?
By D. T. Cochrane — January 25th, 2008
A trader with the French bank Société Générale has been implicated in fraud that cost the bank $7.3 billion. Knowledgeable of the various security mechanisms meant to prevent this sort of fraud, Jerome Kerviel was able to hide his transactions from controllers. It …
The Road to Serfdom is a Good Book
By Matthew Lymburner — January 13th, 2008
There, I said it. Likely all who stop reading this post at the title, and who have done the same with Hayek’s book will be appalled, and will proceed to lambast me somewhere (oh wait, I’m not that important!). But it’s something that needs to …
Forces Constructing Consent for the Neoliberal Project
By David Cavett-Goodwin — January 13th, 2008
This paper will attempt to provide a more holistic set of criterion necessary for the construction of consent over neoliberalism. This concept refers to methods by which the public buy-into the neoliberal agenda. How were they convinced that neoliberalism was the most suitable method of …
