Computational and Statistical Political Economy Research
A Critique of Capital as Power Theory Financial capital is a spectacular thing, in the most literal sense. The financial press, 24/7 finance news, the incredible opulence and respect afforded to big financial investors, are proof enough of this. There are fabulous sums involved, trillions and trillions of dollars of financial instruments like derivatives, stocks…
Surplus Statism is an ideology that is very syncretic in nature and uses arms-length bodies and a transparent surveillance state to eliminate corruption arising from conflicts of interests. While the Surplus State is operated by a single party, this party is divided into two separate groups: the Inner Party and the Outer Party. While the…
This post originally appeared on my substack. I’ve been vocal that I believe that the field of classical econophysics, which has its roots in the works of Marxist economists bringing statistical mechanics into economics, is on the true cutting edge of economics today. Unlike the emphasis of neoclassical economics, with its insistence on its foundation…
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This post originally appeared on my substack. I was just recently made aware of another reply in an ongoing conversation with the Marxist blogger Jehu, you can read the conversation in order here: 1 2 3 4 To recap, Jehu insists that our estimates of the rate of profit and the mass of profit are all misleading because they…
This post originally appeared on my substack. Whenever one reads the business press, such as Bloomberg or the Financial Times, every piece of news is implicitly framed about how it might impact the rate of interest, which, for the bourgeoisie, may as well be the price of milk or bread. The working class, of course,…
This post originally appeared on my substack. Recently I’ve come to realize that I should summarize much of my recent work on the implications of the current tendencies of the rate of profit into one place. Previously, I’ve written about the cyclical aspect of the rate of profit, as well as how simulating it can show its various possible…
This post originally appeared on my substack. Recently, I received a response to my blog about the secular rate of profit by Jehu, one of the more interesting Marxists operating online today. While I think that certain of his fixations, specifically on gold as a measure of value, are somewhat illogical, he has one of the most…
This post originally appeared on my substack. Science is a process which is decentering of the subject, moving beyond it in order to come to terms with objects as they relate to each other. It is only by whack-a-moling the subject as it appears in objects do we make scientific progress. Science, just as ideological…
This post originally appeared on my substack. The NEP, (New Economic Policy), in the Soviet Russia has often been considered a liberal period with market-led development. And compared to other periods of Soviet history, this has some credibility. But in the history of economic development, especially up to this point, the NEP was an extreme…
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This post originally appeared on my substack. Last year I wrote an essay on the tendency towards atomization in capitalist societies, highlighting how it seemed to lead to more loneliness and social disruption. One of the solutions I proposed was to decrease the workweek, which would allow people more time for the rest of their lives and…
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