Conceptualizing Capitalism: Conversations with Henning TrüperFind all four Blogs with Henning Trüper here! Conversations with Henning Trüper. Photo Angela Schenk Berlin April 2025. BS: In 1945, the US stood out as the world’s supreme empire. The war efforts that...
What is capitalism, and what is the state? In the advanced stage that appears in the USA today, the distinction seems unclear. However, is it an advanced stage? Isn’t what looks like the future, where Europe and the world will follow, a déjà-vu reiteration of an...
Conceptualizing Capitalism: Conversations with Henning Trüper Find all four Blogs with Henning Trüper here! Conversations with Henning Trüper. Photo Angela Schenk Berlin April 2025. BS: Our previous conversation could be summarized as capitalism made the states,...
Conceptualizing Capitalism: Conversations with Henning Trüper Find all four Blogs with Henning Trüper here! Conversations with Henning Trüper. Photo Angela Schenk Berlin April 2025. BS: In 1944, as the end of World War II loomed, Karl Polanyi published The Great...
Jonathan White is innovative and convincing in his approach to the question of how the future was made in the past and is or isn’t made today. He goes beyond a mainstream debate that departs from opposites like predictable or not predictable, makeable or not...
The development of the financial markets since the 1970s crisis has rejected the assumption about mutually reinforcing dynamics between capitalism and democracy. Joseph Vogle argues in Capital and Ressentiment: A Brief Theory of the Present, Cambridge: Polity Press...
Fred L Block, Capitalism. The Future of an Illusion. Oakland, Cal: University of California Press 2018 describes capitalism as an illusion: the understanding of capitalism as a closed system, self-regulated and self-propelling, following its own laws and logic...
The conversations’ topic is the overexploitation of the energy that nature provides. The propellor of this overexploitation is our understanding of the economy as driven by growth through value added in a transaction chain with our present monetary price system as the gauge. Quilligan argues for an alternative value system steered by nature’s replenishment and resilience. The price does not have money but energy value in his order. The current price for a liter of petrol driving a combustible engine is valued in money as a currency with a shifting market value. It must have a value in joules of sunlight embodied within the fossil fuel, Quilligan argues. The price must be derived from biophysical calculation. Earth’s carrying capacity is a key term in his reasoning.’
The Value of Energy. Conversations with James QuilliganBS We have come to the third and final blog in our conversation about your article, Who Will Pay Back the Earth? The theme of these talks is The Value of Energy. We have discussed new ways of thinking about...
The Value of Energy. Conversations with James QuilliganBS In Who Will Pay Back the Earth, you refer to an emerging competition between two world currencies, the US dollar and a potential BRICS currency. BRICS nations have declared their ambition to replace the...
