Marx's Unfinished but Magnificent Critique of Political Economy

political economy of china in central asia

this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...

WikiLeaks and the Critique of the Political Economy

In his seminal introduction to the field, Vincent Mosco defines the political economy of communication as the “study of the social relations, particularly the power relations that mutually constitute the production, distribution, and consumption of resources, including communication resources” (Mosco, 2009, pp. 2). Terms that have been used for naming this field have been “political economy of ...

A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of Transnational Informational Capitalism

Concepts like knowledge society, information society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, Internet society, and network society fail to grasp the dialectic of the continuity and discontinuity of society. These concepts take the changes associated with new media as radical novelties and ignore the continuing dominance of capitalist structures. Contemporary capitalism is highly antagonist...

Critique of cognitive capitalism: A political economy of knowledge-based Internet industries

The thesis posits that analytical studies relating to knowledge based industries (especially social media) as rent seeking organization must be revisited. Proponents of cognitive capitalism, especially Autonomist Marxists attribute sources of revenue in knowledge based industries to “rent seeking behavior” departing from Marx’s labor theory of value. Industrial production process requires capit...

on Political Economy of the Welfare State THEORIES OF THE WELFARE STATE : A CRITIQUE