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...Joscha Wullweber Abstract This article develops a political understanding of the money-form, its relation to value, to society, and to the state. It argues that the value of assets is based on societal relations. These value relations are expressed in a general measure of value – money. Money...

...Laura Katz Olson Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine , by Peter A. Swenson , New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press , 2021 , 564 pp., $17.69 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-3002-5740-3 . © 2023 Caucus for a New Political Science 2023 NEW...

... is the attempt to recompose class relations and tighten marketbased constraints over labour power and money. The strategy represents a clear illustration of the “political use of crisis” to reaffirm the stark reality of the “cash nexus.” Selective state intervention to contain and prevent the “contagion...

...Mindy Peden Abstract Money markets, finance, credit instruments, and other markers of what Lenin called “the highest stage of capitalism” are the mechanism through which global inequalities are maintained, expanded, and determined. Accounting practices like double-entry bookkeeping and cost...

... and practice. A version of this essay first appeared in Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War , Edited by C. Simpson, copyright The New Press, New York, 1998. It is reported here with the permission of The New Press. * I dedicate this essay...

...Carolin Hagelskamp; Rebecca Silliman; Erin B. Godfrey; David Schleifer Abstract In participatory budgeting (PB), residents instead of public officials decide how public money is spent. PB may reveal that residents prioritize different investments than public officials, which could lead to more...

... understood not as tools of international coercion but primarily as domestic regulations. The functional argument is that the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) uses tactical and strategic ambiguity to maximize its regulatory reach over financial intuitions, humanitarian aid organizations, and money...

... women’s lives in Malawi. Each time a user clicks on JMV content, the corporate partners donate money to the NGO. Using discourse analysis and interviews, I examine how JMV encourages users to care about distant others and with what effects. I draw attention to the use of Web 2.0 in the campaign in terms...

.... The article also discusses how a number of reluctant states are attempting to take advantage of federal expansion money by proposing market-based alternatives. Finally, it addresses the various vested interests affected by the Medicaid expansion decision. © 2015 Caucus for a New Political Science 2015...

...-called terrorist financial trails as one of the best and most objective ways to apprehend terrorists. The mainstream narrative of policing terrorism financing goes thus: following the money will lead to the bad guys (and they are usually guys). There is also a related claim made-that following "risky...

... in the dissolution of the Breton Woods consensus in the 1970s is a critical juncture in a much longer process of transformation, it is not the creation of fiat currencies per se which expresses the abolition of the signified in economics, because "the fact of money occults and represses the law of value from which...

...Stephen Pimpare Peter H. Stone , Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington , New York : Ferrar, Straus and Giroux , 2006 , 224 pp. Casino Jack and the United States of Money , Alex Gibney , director, 2010 Casino Jack...

.... This article provides a critical assessment of Sandel's work on markets, as found in his 2012 book What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits ofMarkets and in a series of related essays.3 It argues that, although Sandel's work should be celebrated for exposing both the increasing marketization of our lives...

... government created a laissez-faire economy based on the self-adjusting market and the commodification of land, labor and money, a countermovement spontaneously emerged to protect society from the ravages of such a system. This countermovement also created problems, however, by interfering...

... Insurance Corporation. They lent money to mortgage brokers with funds that they got from depositors, and because of the funds, many of which were insured by the federal government, they said here is what you can and can't do on mortgage lending. And then we had another set of mortgage originators either...

...: equality in the realm of democratic polity, and liberty in the realm of political speech." Inconsistencies exist in the ruling because the court was "splitting the difference" when it decided "which regime ought to govern regulation of political money." Campaign contributions were treated "more like voting...

... Party and its implications for the factors that determine electoral success. Scholars note the influence of campaign contributions and interest group activity on congressional candidates, especially in a post-Citizens United world in which campaigns are awash with money.5 Questions remain, however...

... than rely on corporate donors. Yet, like so many progressives who denounce the role that money and special interests play in United States politics, Charlie cannot ignore the role of money in campaigning. It is Enzi's formidable war chest that has helped him handily defeat Republicans challenging him...

... banks like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank).5 What did these critics see? A global bubble in which China, the United States and the European Union found themselves awash in money thanks to an unsustainable nexus of artificially stimulated consumption (in the US and EU) and export production (in China...

... vis-a-vis the US empire and vis-a-vis the Israeli powers that be. I think in the States we've got a very problematic situation because we've got a spineless and comatose Democratic Party that has for the most part turned away from poor and working people towards the well-to-do money classes, big...