Shimshon Bichler
Encyclopedia
Shimshon Bichler is an educator who teaches political economy
at colleges and universities in Israel
. Along with Jonathan Nitzan
, Bichler has created an engaging power theory of capitalism
and theory of differential accumulation
in their analysis of the political economy of wars, Israel, and globalization.
Political economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
at colleges and universities in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. Along with Jonathan Nitzan
Jonathan Nitzan
Jonathan Nitzan is a Professor of Political Economy at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is the co-author of Capital As Power: A Study of Order and Creorder, published 2009. Their writings focus of the nature of capital in capitalism and provide an alternative view to that of Marxist and...
, Bichler has created an engaging power theory of capitalism
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system that became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism. There is no consensus on the precise definition nor on how the term should be used as a historical category...
and theory of differential accumulation
Differential accumulation
Differential Accumulation is an approach for analysing capitalist development and crisis, tying together mergers and acquisitions, stagflation and globalization as integral facets of accumulation...
in their analysis of the political economy of wars, Israel, and globalization.
Major works
- Capital as Power: A study of order and creorder – 2009
- Global Political Economy of Israel – 2002
External links
- The Bichler and Nitzan Archives - free resource of their articles