Structural Crisis Of Capital Research Articles

Global production and the crisis of the tax state

This article combines a fiscal sociology framing with value theory in the classical tradition to yield a composite lens through which to examine the relation between Global Value Chains, Global Wealth Chains and the tax state. It has specific regard to the ongoing crisis of tax states globally, as corporate profits go undertaxed. In summary, the argument is as follows. Although capital and the state are both primarily in the business of capturing value from Global Value Chains indirectly (i.e. otherwise than through ownership of means of material production), labour in Global Wealth Chains has a dual role of (i) suppressing the profitability associated with material production in favour of returns from intangibles and (ii) suppressing the corporate tax take. It therefore simultaneously constitutes capital's instrument of value capture, and its instrument of supremacy in its contestation with the state over the proportion in which value capture is shared between the two. Better-paid labour associated with value capture on the part of capital (i.e. better paid Global Wealth Chain labour) is predominantly located in wealthier states, giving those states an alternative source of revenue and consequently giving them a reason for maintaining a global order in which capital has supremacy over them in the contestation over value capture from Global Value Chains. Further, these dynamics are in a feedback loop which serves as a countervailing tendency staving off a structural crisis of capitalism, and that feedback loop is a core driver for today's crisis of tax states.

Vizija novog ekonomskog sistema posle prelaska pandemije u endemiju iz perspektive Srbije

Vizija novog ekonomskog sistema posle prelaska pandemije u endemiju iz perspektive Srbije

Crise estrutural, conjuntura nacional, coronavirus e educação – o desmonte da educação nacional

Partindo da crise estrutural do capitalismo que caracteriza a época atual, é analisada a conjuntura brasileira sob o influxo da pandemia do coronavírus, examinando os impactos da crise estrutural e da pandemia sobre a educação pública do ponto de vista da tendência à manutenção da sociedade atual e na perspectiva de sua superação.

Entrevista com Eduardo Sá Barreto

A segunda entrevista trazida pela Revista Fim do Mundo aos seus leitores é com o economista doutor Eduardo Sá Barreto. Ele é professor da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) e membro do Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Marx e o Marxismo (NIEP-Marx). Sua pesquisa concentra-se nos temas de crise ambiental e crise estrutural do capitalismo e tem publicado diversos artigos nessas áreas.

Learning from History: union tactics that contributed to the labor counter-reform / Aprendendo com a História: táticas sindicais que contribuíram para a contrarreforma trabalhista

This article analyzes the tactics adopted by the Brazilian trade union movement in recent times, particularly between 2003 and 2015/2016, during the PT (Worker's Party) governments, in order to deal with conflicts arising from the relationship between capital and labor. Based on the research, it is possible to affirm that the prospects for negotiation and conciliation of the interests of classes assimilated by workers' representative organizations in the face of capital, created the necessary conditions to carry out the recently approved labor counter-reforms, whose content materializes the agenda of the national bourgeoisie to face the fall of the rates of profit in the context of the structural crisis of capitalism. The reconstruction of the social processes which culminated in this counter- reform is essential for workers to be able to assess the negative impact of those tactics on the collection of historically conquered rights, and elaborate answers that effectively contribute toward social emancipation.

Społeczna polityka mieszkaniowa w poszukiwaniu i urzeczywistnianiu trwałego rozwoju

Post-war anti-social evolution of housing policy becomes an important factor in the post-2008 deepening structural crisis of capitalism and in the end of the market paradigm of economic growth. This speaks for the analysis of social housing policy as a basis for re-evaluation of the paradigm of civilizational development towards better realization of the concept of sustainable development. Shared overreaching goals of sustainable development are best shown through the concept of infrastructure inhabited settlement. In this approach lie methodological possibilities of filling sustainable development with commonly understood social content.

Polska na tle urbanizacji i sytuacji mieszkaniowej w UE - stan, perspektywy i wyzwania cywilizacyjne

The aim of the paper is placing Poland in the EU in the two categories, urbanization in the demographic sense and housing, in the perspective of civilizational challenges of the structural crisis of capitalism

A saúde pública brasileira no contexto da crise do Estado ou do capitalismo?

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a tendência da saúde publica universal brasileira no contexto da crise estrutural do capitalismo, articulando os interesses do capital e do Estado, sem que seja possível se referir à uma crise do Estado Moderno. Para tanto, o artigo está organizado em duas partes. A primeira parte busca analisar a natureza da crise, identificando tendências do desenvolvimento do capitalismo, principalmente nas últimas décadas do século XX e na primeira década do século XXI, com destaque para a lei marxiana da queda tendencial da taxa de lucro e a dominância do capital portador de juros. A segunda parte discute os impactos dessa crise ao direito universal da saúde no Brasil, especialmente, a partir dos anos 1990, confirmando as incertezas do financiamento do SUS e o crescente movimento de apropriação do capital sobre os recursos das políticas sociais de direitos, as da seguridade social, especialmente a saúde. Por fim, são apresentadas as considerações finais, incluindo algumas propostas para enfrentar esse quadro de instabilidade e subfinanciamento desse sistema de saúde.

Social Responsibility of Polish Enterprises. The Implications of Research for the Approach to the Measurement (Assessment) of Corporate Social Responsibility.

The economic crisis that began in 2008 has been perceived as a structural crisis of capitalism itself. It turned out that the irresponsibility and lack of ethical integrity of business, compounded by the globalization process, may have destructive consequences. In this situation, corporate social responsibility issues have gained particular importance. It also applies to Poland, where corporate social responsibility is too often used as an efficient tool for public relations policy. Thus it became necessary to precisely define the meaning of corporate social responsibility and determine the standards to assess its level and efficiency. The intended final effect of my research pursued on these matters is to create a tool for evaluating the level of corporate social responsibility of any Polish enterprise. In this article I examine what universal restrictions and determinants should be taken into consideration in creating such a tool. These theoretical assumptions have already been used to create Polish first stock market index of socially responsible companies, which was launched in 2009.

La formación por competencias y el mundo del trabajo: de la calificación a la empleabilidad

Considered as an element of business discourse, the competence-based education emerges associated with processes of productive restructuring influencing the economy since 1970. These processes arise as a consequence of the crisis of the accumulation model based on mass production and consumption following the principles of taylorism and fordism. In the last decades, the State has been unable to solve the periodic crisis that afflicts late capitalism. Because of this, the State moves away from its economic mission, promotes marketing mechanisms and, in the meantime, it tries to manage the motivational crisis of the population. This challenge forces the State to take interest in the vital world of individuals trying to solve the legitimacy crisis through educational reforms that affect the world of work. The relationship between the vertiginous changes of working world and a new educational formation is explicit. This educational formation must consider (at the same time) the management capacity, learning capacity, teamwork capacity and self-training. Based on this situation, there is a direct relationship between technologic advances, the structural crisis of capitalism and work organization. Besides, the "qualification" term is replaced with "competency-based education".

The current financial and economic crisis and the prospects for the socialist movement

Drawing on the social structure of accumulation theory, this article presents a case that the crisis that began in 2008 is not just a financial crisis or a recession. This crisis is a structural crisis of capitalism, of the type that arose in the 1930s and again in the 1970s. This implies that major economic restructuring is required to overcome stagnation of the economy. The article considers several possible forms of restructuring, including the construction of fascist, corporatist, or social-democratic capitalism, as well as the possibility of a transition to socialism.

The End of the “End of History”: The Structural Crisis of Capitalism and the Fate of Humanity

The End of the “End of History”: The Structural Crisis of Capitalism and the Fate of HumanityMinqi LiMinqi LiDepartment of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112. [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:June 2010https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2010.74.3.290PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 74Issue 3Jul 2010 Information© 2010 by S & S Quarterly, Inc.PDF download