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Capitalism and Agrarian Change
Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class (‘the peasantry’) to be pitted against the state or corporation. This book challenges this rather idealistic view by demonstrating that under current capitalist social relations (competition, efficiency and productivity, and profit maximisation), these agricultural producers have been differentiated into different agrarian classes by exploitation. By comparing two different contexts of local agrarian change in Indonesia—rice cultivation in Java and oil palm in Sumatra—this book exposes the different class locations of the agrarian classes among petty agricultural p...
Macroeconomic Modelling, Economic Policy and Methodology
Demonstrating that there are (superior) alternatives to the modern macroeconomic mainstream and its DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) models, this book presents the cutting edge in macroeconomic modelling, economic policy, and methodology from the perspective of heterodox economic thinking. The first part of the book explores methodological issues, advocating for a stronger ethical consideration in macroeconomics and for the adoption of a strategy of pluralism to ensure that macroeconomic theory is capable of adapting to real-world issues. The second part highlights recent trends in empirical Stock-Flow Consistent models by collecting a group of the most well-developed empirical ...
Blockchain and the Commons
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in ‘the commons’ based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows, forests and parks to language, open-source software (FLOSS and Blockchain) and 3D printers, the commons are distributed or common property resources/infrastructures that are self-managed by their user communities. While acknowledging the significant contributions that can be made through commons-based peer production, this book provides a critical examination of the commons with the aim of contributing to their long-term sustainability. In partic...
Economics and Art Theory
Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors, this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how this might aid our understanding of both areas of research. The collection explores themes which both fields share, including rationality, abstraction and model building, the nature of social reality, representation and transformation. The contributions employ a broad range of methods to investigate the links between economics and art, and their coverage includes architecture, history of ideas, art theory, literature studies and beyond. This innovative volume will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of economic theory, cultural economics, literary and art theory and it intends to be a starting point for new avenues of interdisciplinary research.
Jurnal Indoprogress 2023
Dunia sedang menghadapi berbagai krisis: dari keadaan darurat iklim hingga pandemi COVID-19, dari perang regional antara Rusia dan Ukraina hingga ketidaksta- bilan keuangan saat ini di Global North, dan dari krisis rantai pasokan hingga inflasi di seluruh dunia. Berhadapan dengan puspa-ragam tantangan ini, sangat penting untuk memiliki pemahaman yang jelas tentang struktur ekonomi dan sosial yang mendasarinya, struktur yang menciptakan dan melanggengkan krisis-krisis tersebut. Di sini, analisis Marxis mena- warkan lensa yang kuat untuk memahami krisis-krisis ini dan bagaimana krisis-krisis ini dibentuk oleh kekuatan-kekuatan kapitalisme Jurnal IndoPPROGRESS kali ini didedikasikan untuk tema ...
China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains
China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains presents a critical reflection on blockchain technologies in the context of their adoption in China and the world that China is engaged in and shaping. Approaching the issues of blockchain technology adoption and development on China’s own terms is critical if policy makers and others are to make effective sense of one of the key dynamics shaping the next few decades of the global landscape. The work challenges the ‘trust’ trope that dominates much discussion of blockchain technology’s application. It argues, contrary to the predominant trust trope, that blockchain is not about trust at all. It shows that China’s re-imagining of the 21st centu...
Globalization and the Decline of American Power
This book explores America’s decline as a global power, arguing that the implosion of Pax Americana was initiated by the process of globalization, preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union by nearly a decade. The era of Pax Americana, and with it American hegemony, is conclusively passed, and will not return in current global conditions. There is a stark contrast between the present epoch and the postwar era of American hegemony (1945–1979) in which the United States, at least outside of the Soviet sphere of influence, largely managed the international economy and reigned over international politics and relations. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical evidence, this book shows that ...
Bernard Schmitt’s Quantum Macroeconomic Analysis
The aim of Bernard Schmitt’s analysis of the monetary economy of production was twofold: to introduce and to explain the logical character of the macroeconomic laws governing our economies and to explain the origin of the pathologies that follow if these laws are not complied with. Schmitt’s main original contributions concern the theories of value, profit, and capital, as well as his explanation of inflation, unemployment and international payments, unified as quantum macroeconomic analysis. This book expounds on the key principles of quantum macroeconomic analysis as he conceived and developed them. Schmitt’s starting point was the analysis of bank money and the way it is associated ...
Apakah Takdir Perempuan sebagai Manusia Kelas Dua?
“Perempuan memang ditakdirkan berada di bawah laki-laki” begitu kalimat yang seringkali kita dengar untuk memberi penghakiman kepada jenis kelamin perempuan. Dikisahkan pula bahwa dengan kodrat untuk hamil dan melahirkan anak, maka perempuan memiliki cacat bawaan, sehingga takdir mereka adalah di rumah sebagai ibu rumah tangga. Buku yang ditulis Evelyn Reed ini, membantah klaim-klaim di atas dengan basis data ilmiah. Reed melakukan penelusuran historis untuk melacak posisi perempuan sejak zaman primitif dan juga membandingkannya dengan hubungan antara pejantan dan betina dalam dunia binatang. Kesimpulan dalam buku ini menunjukan hal yang sangat penting, bahwa perempuan tidak ditakdirkan sebagai manusia kelas dua, posisi perempuan setara dengan laki-laki. Takdir bahwa perempuan di bawah laki-laki bagi Evelyn Reed adalah sesuatu yang palsu dan tidak ilmiah.
Geger Gedhen di Pesisir Selatan Jawa: Pembangunan Bandara dan Dinamika Kelas Agraria di Yogyakarta
Buku ini menentang anggapan kaum populis bahwa relasi sosial di pedesaan merupakan relasi yang harmonis dan guyub melalui aktivitas kebersamaan seperti gotong royong. Dalam studi agraria populis tersebut, warga digambarkan sebagai satu kelompok yang homogen. Studi kasus yang dilakukan di Desa Geger membuktikan bahwa kondisi pedesaan, khususnya di Yogyakarta, tidak seperti yang digambarkan pada penelitian agraria populis. Para petani di Desa Geger bukanlah kelompok warga yang homogen, melainkan terdapat relasi eksploitatif yang menyumbang pada ketimpangan ekonomi dan sosial di pedesaan. Hadirnya ekspansi kapital melalui pembangunan Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA), bukanlah awal adanya konflik di pedesaan Yogyakarta. Sebelum pembangunan Bandara YIA, konflik di tingkat desa telah terjadi akibat adanya eksploitasi yang dilakukan kelas penguasa (petani kapitalis dan tuan tanah) kepada kelas pekerja (proletar dan semi-proletar). Buku ini menunjukkan bagaimana pengaruh pembangunan Bandara YIA terhadap relasi kelas sosial di Desa Geger, yang terletak di Pesisir Selatan Jawa.
