The third reading from the secret book on capitalism.
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Sacrifice (readings from the secret book on capitalism)
The second reading from the secret book on capitalism.
Maggot (readings from the secret book on capitalism)
The first reading from the secret book on capitalism. (Link to the second reading).
The Genesis of the Transformation Problem (in Cosmonaut magazine)
Read this article if you want to understand the transformation problem, without needing to wade through mathematics or numerical examples.
The beginning of the transformation problem (audio)
Audio of a talk on the origins of Marx’s transformation problem.
Marx’s irrational irrational commodity (audio of talk)
On an element of irrationality in Marx’s thought.
Marx’s irrational irrational commodity
On an element of irrationality in Marx’s thought.
Why machines don’t create value (audio of talk)
Machines do work. But they don’t create value.
Video of “Social Architecture of Capitalism” at CU 2019
How the social relations of capitalism explain macroeconomic phenomena.
Marx on Capital as a Real God (video)
Capital is an entity that controls us.
Audio of “What is abstract labour, and who does the abstracting?”
On the entity that represents abstract labour.
What is abstract labour, and who does the abstracting?
On the entity that represents abstract labour.
Complete audio and text of “Hegelian Contradiction and the Prime Numbers”
Perfect order from perfect chaos.
Audio of a “Prolegomena to a Demonology of Capitalism”
On the gnostic content of Marxism.
Prolegomena to a demonology of capitalism
On the gnostic content of Marxism.
Audio of talk “What is the meaning of money?”
On the missing theory of objective semantics in accounts of money.
What is the meaning of money?
On the missing theory of objective semantics in accounts of money.
Labour’s economic policies: can socialists support them?
TL;DR: no
Notes on a Hegelian interpretation of Riemann’s Zeta function
Riemann’s Zeta function is an infinite sublation of Hegelian integers.
Hegelian contradiction and the prime numbers (part 2)
Riemann’s Zeta function is an infinite sublation of Hegelian integers.
Hegelian contradiction and the prime numbers (Part 1)
What is Hegel’s logic? How does it relate to the fundamental structure of reality?
Notes on a mathematical interpretation of the opening of Hegel’s Science of Logic
A mathematical interpretation of the opening of Hegel’s Science of Logic.
Materialism and Cantor’s higher infinities (transcript of talk)
Are Cantor’s higher infinities really real?
Silicon Valley startups: audio of the talk
Why no startup can truly make the world a better place.
Silicon Valley startups: being evil again and again
Why no startup can truly make the world a better place.
The political economy of neural networks
Some thoughts on advancements in Artificial Intelligence.
The social architecture of capitalism: audio of the talk
How the social relations of capitalism explain macroeconomic phenomena.
The social architecture of capitalism
Getting serious about economic inequality requires thinking about the fundamentals: which is the wage system, where one class systematically exploits another. We need much less talk about inequality, and much more talk about exploitation.
Luigi Pasinetti and the labour theory of value
On Luigi Pasinetti’s contributions to the theory of value.
Just what is a labour value anyway?
Value as a field property of the social conditions of production.
The predistributive innocence of profits (and losses)
Profit is not inherently exploitative.
The real meaning of Piero Sraffa’s standard commodity
Sraffa’s standard commodity and the general law of value.
Why the labour theory of value is true
A nonlinear dynamic system model of the general law of value.
Supply and demand in historical time
Supply and demand without intersecting curves.
Setting prices in the chaos of the market
On adjusting prices in historical time.
The numbers in our pockets
A simple monetary economy.
Coexisting labour: the substance of Marx’s labour values
On the key concept of coexisting labour.
A theoretical solution to the coordination problem
On deploying society’s resources to meet final demand.
Self-replacing subsystems
On material reproduction over time.
Vertical integration and the problem of coordination
On the key concept of vertical integration.
The total working day
On the ultimate material constraint.
Materialism and Cantor’s higher infinities
Are Cantor’s higher infinities really real?
A coordination problem
All types of economy face the problem of coordinating activities to meet final demand.
Surplus: the material foundation of human culture
Surplus: the material foundation for human culture
A production process
A production process is where labour transforms inputs into outputs.
How to make things
Simple beginnings: how to make an output from inputs.
Blockchain and the material foundations for socialism
On the importance of the blockchain for socialist organisation.
What’s this blog about?
Towards scalable institutions that immediately exit capitalist property relations
Dmytri Kleiner’s Venture Communism
A talk on Venture Communism.
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