With stagnation threatening and world military spending rising, this piece, published a year ago, might be of interest. 'Military Spending and Economic Growth: A 2025 Update' bnarchives.net/id/eprint/854/

A new CasP paper by James McMahon on the relations between stagflation, differential earnings and Hollywood strikes. Brilliant analysis. capitalaspower.com/2026/02/mcma...

A new, very interesting paper by Sandy Hager, dissecting the strategic sabotage that drives the Ketamine business + a warning about what is in store for similar capitalized substances. bnarchives.net/id/eprint/881/

Thanks to @HeavenlyPossum I was turned on two these two #anarchist #economics academics. https://capitalaspower.com/2023/01/bichler-nitzan-the-business-of-strategic-sabotage-2/ In this article, they argue that although we think of businesses as being "in an industry" like "Trek is in the […]

As billionaires try to life forever, it's worth understanding why they will almost certainly fail, and why our limited human lifespan is almost surely a good thing. Here's a deep dive into the science of life expectancy. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/02/11/t...

Given the ongoing US piracy of Venezuelan oil, it seems like a good time to think about the future of US oil production. That future doesn't look good. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/01/24/u...

My PhD supervisor always said that inflation is everywhere and always redistributionary.

The violence of ICE demonstrates Machiavelli’s point that power is not in the exercise of violence. Power is having the capacity for violence but not needing to use it. As @bichlernitzan.bsky.social say, power is “confidence in obedience.”

When I get sick of politics (which is all the time these days), I read about cosmology. In my view, we're now experiencing a slow-burning revolution in our understanding of the cosmos. It's exhilarating to watch. My outsider take: economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/01/15/a...

We have just posted an add-on Preface to our 2024 Hebrew book, "The Road to Gaza: On Modes of Power and Supreme-God Churches". Preface: bnarchives.net/id/eprint/879/ Full book: bnarchives.net/id/eprint/841/

Relatedly: Capital as Power, by Nitzan and Bichler -- goes through all the failed attempts to measure what capital "really is," and takes on that challenge...backwards, sort of? It doesn't assume any economics knowledge, though it'd help

Here is Tia Levi's fresh PhD dissertation on energy transitions and capitalist power, comparing the 19th-C shift to fossil fuels in England and the move away from them in 21st-C Germany. Remarkable research & a great contribution to CasP. bnarchives.net/id/eprint/877/

Hot damn, after watching the first 40 minutes of this (Nitzan’s talk) I’m reminded that I *must* finish the book! And soon dammit! 😅

The dark matter of CasP? What can’t we observe about capitalist power? capitalaspower.com/casp-forum/t...

Nitzan & Bichler's Capital as Power again a better read of the current moment (and every political-economic moment since 1800) than any other framework. power is relative all the way up, and dominance only becomes more important the more stratified power becomes

The very rich do not own items so much as they own the right to control society. Capital is Power (read Capital as Power!).

incidentally i went back and read Bichler/Nitzan after bouncing off it a couple years ago and this time i unfortunately was convinced of their overall argument. unfortunate bc they are irritating stupid fellows, historical illiterates, undialectical manicheans etc

가자에 이르는 길 (The Road to Gaza) en-movement.net/626 bnarchives.net/id/eprint/874/

AI goes CasP www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFDj...

מאמר חדש bnarchives.net/id/eprint/873/

Are the ideologues of contemporary capitalism adopting CasP (capital as power)? Of course not. But their complaint that the "boundaries dividing political, monetary, fiscal, trade & other policies are gone" suggests that their dogma is falling apart. www.zerohedge.com/markets/boun...

Here is the Internet Archive mirror of The Bichler & Nitzan Archives, designed and implemented by @blairfix.bsky.social archive.org/details/bich...

Roger Pielke Jr. argues that existing data, however poor, show that large-scale climate disasters are becoming less impactful. @blairfix.bsky.social shows that these data demonstrate the very opposite. Will Nature publish his rejoinder? bnarchives.net/id/eprint/872/

Is the world heading for a new arms race? bnarchives.net/id/eprint/854/