Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2019.1646455
Tom McDOWELL
Abstract The role and function of legislative institutions in the transition to neoliberalism have been largely ignored by scholarly literature. This article offers an analysis of the legislative approaches and strategies employed by two Right-wing governments in the Canadian province of Ontario during a period spanning more than 20 years. When viewed comparatively, both governments utilize similar approaches to undermine the capacity of the legislature to hold the executive to account in order to shield their neoliberal restructuring plans from democratic interference. This fits a broader pattern in which the reconfiguration of parliamentary institutions to accommodate the implementation of politically contentious neoliberal legislation has become increasingly commonplace.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2019.1612167
J. Loxley, J. Hajer
Abstract Public–private partnerships and social impact bonds are both forms of private sector encroachment on state activity and are new frontiers of commodification that rely, ultimately, on subsidies or concessions from the state. This article provides an update on both models in the Canadian context, and it reviews theories that rationalize their emergence and growth. Both models have been nurtured by direct and indirect government support, as opposed to any demonstrated superiority, raising concerns that these models are proceeding contrary to the public interest.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2019.1612165
Francesco Maniglio
Abstract Since the 1990s, labour markets in the core countries have been extending recruitment fields into other countries to meet the growing demand for qualified workers, creating a situation of international competition. Rethinking the Marxian dependence approach, this paper posits that the international migration of highly qualified workers would account for the consolidation of a specific geography, which includes dominance by knowledge-based economies. The new social formations that arise from the migration of qualified workers bring to the fore the issue of international division of labour and knowledge. In this context, the agenda of knowledge-based economies shows the new forms of contradiction between dependence and development.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2019.1612168
J. Schulman
Abstract Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are priced via computation of embodied labour-time with remuneration such that one hour of actual labour is exchanged for items produced in one hour. But implementing Marx’s scheme today would incentivize increased individual labour time and drive a tendency to ecologically harmful “growth.” As pushing beyond capitalism remains indispensable, we must assess newer models of socialist planning and distribution providing alternatives to capitalism and market socialism.
{"title":"Conceptualizing the future: Marx’s value theory and the debate on markets and planning","authors":"J. Schulman","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1612168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1612168","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are priced via computation of embodied labour-time with remuneration such that one hour of actual labour is exchanged for items produced in one hour. But implementing Marx’s scheme today would incentivize increased individual labour time and drive a tendency to ecologically harmful “growth.” As pushing beyond capitalism remains indispensable, we must assess newer models of socialist planning and distribution providing alternatives to capitalism and market socialism.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1612168","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49149655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2018.1536367
Tyler McCreary, J. Turner
Abstract This paper argues that theorizing pipeline governance in Canada necessitates engaging with Indigenous modes of effecting jurisdiction over development. Focusing on the Unist’ot’en land defence against the TransCanada Coastal GasLink pipeline, the paper argues that Indigenous resistance disrupts the scales of settler pipeline governance in British Columbia, Canada. Contesting the authority of the state, Indigenous territorial assertions constitute countervailing forms of jurisdiction grounded in and operationalized through distinct scales of resource governance.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2018.1536363
Charles Guay-Boutet
Abstract This paper examines the increase in student bank indebtedness in Quebec over the last three decades. The increase in this form of indebtedness is compared with the more general rise of household and consumer indebtedness under financialized capitalism. The banks’ origin of student debt through Quebec’s state-subsidized loans programs, L’Aide financière aux études (AFE), is identified through an institutional history of this program. I then refer to post-Keynesian and circuitist literature to identify the broader monetary circuit with which student debt is embedded. The paper presents original data on outstanding student loans, interest payments, and the public and private actors managing student indebtedness. It concludes with an overview of Quebec student indebtedness related to private credit products.
摘要本文探讨了在过去的三十年中，魁北克学生银行债务的增加。这种形式的债务的增加与金融资本主义下家庭和消费者债务的普遍增加进行了比较。这些银行通过魁北克省的国家补贴贷款项目“L ' aide financiires aux tudes”(AFE)发放学生债务的来源，可以通过该项目的制度历史来确定。然后，我参考了后凯恩斯主义和循环主义的文献，以确定学生债务嵌入的更广泛的货币循环。本文提供了未偿还学生贷款、利息支付以及管理学生债务的公共和私人行为者的原始数据。最后概述了与私人信贷产品有关的魁北克学生负债情况。
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2018.1536359
J. Garrod
Abstract In the context of a revived debate over Canada’s location in the global political economy, this paper highlights two recent changes to the property relations of capitalism that problematize the conceptual framework of theories of imperialism and dependency: first, new rights for financial institutions that challenge attempts to surmise meaning from the nationality of capital, and, second, new rights for corporations that restrict nation-states from limiting their accumulation activities.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2018.1536372
G. Norcliffe, J. Bates
Abstract Referring specifically to mid-North Ontario during the Conservative Government’s “Common Sense Revolution” (1995–2003), we theorize that state reregulation applying neoliberal principles—when coupled with technological change and broader changes caused by the internationalization of capital and labour—resulted in job losses, downsizing, closures, and aging of fixed capital and infrastructure. This led to outmigration, depopulation, reduced social and economic services, and longer travel times to access services in thinly populated regions, which now have to contend with a seasonal influx of wealthy metropolitan citizens.
在保守党政府的“常识革命”(Common Sense Revolution, 1995-2003)期间，我们特别提到了安大略省中北部，我们的理论是，应用新自由主义原则的国家监管，加上技术变革和资本和劳动力国际化引起的更广泛的变化，导致了失业、裁员、关闭和固定资本和基础设施的老化。这导致了外迁、人口减少、社会和经济服务减少，以及在人口稀少的地区获得服务的旅行时间更长，这些地区现在不得不与富有的大都市公民的季节性涌入相抗衡。
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2018.1536366
Danish Khan, Anirban Karak
Abstract Structural changes in capitalism over the last four decades have facilitated the emergence of globalized sociospatial processes such as urbanization. Meanwhile, the scale of uneven sociospatial development has also been dramatically accentuated. We explore these issues by conceptualizing contemporary urbanization as a “planetary” process, but we also add mediating concepts to study changes on the ground. We illustrate how linkages between dispossession and urbanization can be discerned in countries of both the global North and South. We also show that the oft-made claims to overall efficiency gains from urbanization are a myth. Capitalist urbanization has two dialectically interrelated dimensions: “development” and “dispossession,” and this process cannot be adequately grasped to be an outcome of rural–urban migration leading to efficiency gains.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2018.1536369
Robert Joseph Neubauer
Abstract This article explores the conflict related to the proposed Northern Gateway project between 2010 and 2015, examining claims that an overdependence on oil and gas had rendered Canada a “petrostate.” It argues the “petrostate thesis” is misleading for a multiparty democracy, such as Canada, and offers an alternative Gramscian framework: the Canadian Petrobloc. It then uses social network and discourse analysis to explore how key Petrobloc actors coordinated an emergent response to the anti-Gateway opposition across multiple fields.
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