This is a similar tale to the one experienced by British engineer Major C.H. Douglas just before the outbreak of World War I. Douglas was working on the London tube when his superiors announced that there was no more public money for any further construction. The budget had been reached [...]
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2018 Capital as Power Essay Prize
First Prize $1000
Second Prize $500
Third Prize $300
The Review of Capital as Power (RECASP) announces an annual essay prize on the subject of capital as power. The best paper [...]
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Capital as Power Essay Prize
First Prize $2000
Second Prize $500
Third Prize $300
https://www.recasp.com/essay-prize
The Review of Capital as Power (RECASP) announces an annual essay prize on the subject of capital as power. The best paper [...]
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An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it.
The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? Richard Robbins and [...]
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2016 Capital as Power Essay Prize First Prize $2000 Second Prize $500 Third Prize $300
https://www.recasp.com/essay-prize
The Review of Capital as Power (RECASP) announces an annual essay prize on the subject of capital as power. [...]
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Though Marx never developed a theory of the capitalisation of the state or of money creation, he did notice this relationship of getting something for nothing (that we discussed in Part 1 of this post) in the first volume of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy:
The state [...]
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The esteemed science fiction writer and Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University, Isaac Asimov once said that the most interesting phrase to hear in science is not ‘Eureka! I’ve found it’, but ‘gee, that’s funny.’ It turns out that the ‘gee, that’s funny’ moments are the most exciting [...]
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The Review of Capital as Power (RECASP) announces an annual essay prize of $1,000 for the best paper on the subject of capital as power. Submitted articles should not have been published in a refereed journal or book before. The particular topic is open. The paper can be theoretical, [...]
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