Author: Stephen Maher
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A Prime Competitor: Understanding Amazon’s Market Power
A large body of scholarship has emerged in recent years attempting to assess if Amazon is a monopoly. Such accounts generally define monopoly in terms of the neoclassical “quantity theory … Keep reading »
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Short clip: Fall and Rise of American Finance
Authors Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher talk about: 0:00 The importance of analysing the financial system 0:40 The Fall and Rise of American Finance 1:00 Challenge the left – finance … Watch video »
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Book launch: The Fall and Rise of American Finance
With authors Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher. Moderated by Lenart Nici. Recorded in Toronto, 27 April, 2024. The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is proud to present the launch … Watch video »
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The Power of Finance Is Inherent to Capitalism
Analysts of financialization often present it as a sign of capitalist decline, yet the rise of finance has actually strengthened capitalist domination. The only way to challenge this power is by converting finance into a public utility. Keep reading »
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Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Statism, and the New Finance Capital
This symposium at Carleton University, looked at the legacy of Leo Panitch’s scholarship, education, and activism, featuring roundtables and a keynote address by Institute of Political Economy (IPE) visiting professor, … Watch video »
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The New Finance Capital has Blurred the Line Between Industrial and Financial Corporations
Critical scholars and progressive politicians alike have today widely embraced the view that finance is a parasitical and corrosive force on the “real” industrial economy. According to this perspective, ‘financialization’ … Keep reading »
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Corporate Capital and the Integral State
Steve Maher’s new book, Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power, develops an original conception of what Gramsci called the ‘integral state’. It … Watch video »
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Historical Development of Capitalism /w Steve Maher
Historical Development of Capitalism – from the early 20th century, to the present: Post WWII, Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods, Post-War Boom, Nixon Shock, Stagflation, Class Discipline, Globalization, Volcker Schock… all … Watch video »
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From Neoliberalism to the New Finance Capital
As the global economy entered another historic crisis in March 2020, the US Federal Reserve implemented a massive support program to stabilize financial markets. In doing so, it expanded upon … Keep reading »
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Leo Panitch and the Socialist Project
The death of Leo Panitch has made the world a darker place. His writings have carried us through some of the most difficult periods in the history of the socialist … Keep reading »
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From the Streets to the State and Back Again
Learning From the Sanders Moment The essays gathered in this collection were written in the midst of an escalating and multifaceted crisis situation in the United States. They address the search … Keep reading »
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Global Capitalism, Global Pandemic, and the Struggle for Socialism
We are now in the grip of one of the worst economic crises in the history of modern capitalism. As the Coronavirus pandemic forces people to stay home and businesses … Keep reading »