• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: A CasP Model of the Stock Market
  • Contributor: Bichler, Shimshon [Author]; Nitzan, Jonathan [Author]
  • imprint: Toronto: The Bichler and Nitzan Archives, 2016
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: crisis ; valuation ; capital as power ; strategic sabotage ; mismatch thesis ; systemic fear ; stock market
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  • Description: Most explanations of stock market booms and busts are based on contrasting the underlying 'fundamental' logic of the economy with the exogenous, non-economic factors that presumably distort it. Our paper offers a radically different model, examining the stock market not from the mechanical viewpoint of a distorted economy, but from the dialectical perspective of capitalized power. The model demonstrates that (1) the valuation of equities represents capitalized power; (2) capitalized power is dialectically intertwined with systemic fear; and (3) systemic fear and capitalized power are mediated through strategic sabotage. This triangular model, we posit, can offer a basis for examining the asymptotes, or limits, of capitalized power and the ways in which these asymptotes relate to the historical and ongoing transformation of the capitalist mode of power.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND)