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The Capitalist World-System and International Health
International Journal of Health Services, 1981A number of world health problems which have been discretely considered in the past are viewed in this paper as interwoven with each other and with the functioning of the capitalist political-economic world-system. Thus, climactic explanations (“tropical medicine”), and even poverty when conceived in cultural terms or as a structural problem resident ...
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A Theory of Capitalist Economic Systems
2008Social theorists have long regarded those production relations which we now call capitalist as especially well suited for generating economic dynamism. This is true of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Max Weber, as well as virtually all lesser notables. Indeed, Marx went so far as to say that, compared to capitalism, all ‘earlier modes of production were ...
M. C. Howard, J. E. King
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The Key Contradiction in Capitalist System
Review of Radical Political Economics, 2013Which is the fundamental contradiction of capitalism: the capital-labor polarity or the contrast between socialized production and private appropriation? Those looking on the capital-labor polarity as the main contradiction will argue that socialism arises when the passage from a system controlled by capital owners to a system of worker-run firms ...
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Capitalist Varieties as Open Systems
2009With the distinction between liberal and other forms of capitalism one could forget that any capitalism is liberal. Therefore, it makes sense to start the discussion of capitalisms with a brief identification of the fundamental characteristics of capitalism as a historical formation.
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The Capitalist System: Empirical Regularities
2015This book seeks to explain the economic process in the capitalist system, and therefore we need to know what are the facts to be explained. This chapter presents a set of empirical regularities about production and distribution in capitalist countries, which has been taken from the international literature.
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The Crisis and the Capitalist System Today
Critique, 2010Capitalist crises are specific to the epoch in which we live. Today there is a huge surplus of capital unable to find investment outlets leading to asset inflation and the various bubbles. The downturn itself reduces that surplus, both in monetary and physical terms providing the basis for an upturn.
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The Contradictions of Capitalist Healthcare Systems
Critique, 2015This paper argues that the law of value has a very tenuous hold over the healthcare industry, whether the US market-based form or the state form of the National Health Service developed in the UK. It also argues that the dominant form of medicine, biomedicine, acts as a powerful ideological and material support mechanism, in forming an elective ...
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Determining Economic Activity in a Post-Capitalist System
Journal of Economic Psychology, 1987An activity is a peculiar type of commodity. One may be willing to perform an activity as work in return for a wage or to pay for the favor of performing an activity as a game. This chapter argues that changing the positive or the negative price of an activity does not unambiguously determine the demand for and the supply of this commodity.
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