38 research outputs found
The Survival of Non-capitalism
This article explores the importance of non-capitalist space within the global political economy. The issue of how to categorise and understand space in so-called peripheral regions such as Latin America has been a contentious one. Whilst many radical analyses have focused on the dynamics of capitalism in relation to the geography of development, explaining how it has been able to survive and grow, this article makes the case for a more multi-linear theoretical framework with which to view the socio-economic landscape. This is inspired not only by the later writings of Marx but also the specific Marxian class analysis of those involved in Rethinking Marxism. Via a focus on Oaxaca in southern Mexico, this article highlights both the survival and the recreation of spaces of non-capitalism, and provides an argument for why we should consider these to be important for transformative action more broadly, whilst also discussing their potential limitations
Schumpeter: Theorist of the Avant-Garde
This paper argues that Schumpeterâs 1911 edition of âTheory of Economic
Developmentâ can be fruitfully read as a theory of the avant-garde, in line with such
theories developed by artistic avant-garde around the same time, in particular by the
Italian Futurists. In particular it will show that both Schumpeter and other avant-garde
theorists sought to break with past (1), identify an avant-garde who could force that
break (2), find new ways to represent the dynamic world (3), embrace the new and
dynamic (4) and promote a perpetual dynamic process, instead of a specific end-state or
utopia (5). This new reading helps us to understand the cultural meaning of this seminal
text in economics. Secondly it greatly facilitates our understanding of the differences
with the later interwar German edition and English edition, which were more cautious
in their embrace of the new, less focused on the individual qualities of the entrepreneur
and placed more emphasis on historical continuity. Thirdly this reading suggests a
different reason for the bifurcation between Schumpeter and the rest of the Austrian
school of economics. Traditionally this split is explained by Schumpeterâs affinities
with the Lausanne School, this paper instead suggests that the crucial break between
Schumpeter on the one hand and Böhm-Bawerk, Wieser and later members of the
Austrian School on the other hand is their theory of and attitude toward social change