
Lecture 1 - Capital as Value in Motion
Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History (audio)
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Acceleration in the Stock Markets
The phenomena is speed up in our society has been absolutely incredible. Marx, in order to study this process of realisation, assumes there is no technological change. So the whole thing shifts towards a kind of a consumer world which is actually speeding up as well. And all that salmon you think is organic, it's actually sort of speed up. There's a whole world going on here that Marx is getting rid of and kind of saying, well, that also is putting certain pressures on effective demand and how effective demand is expressed.
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