Greetings readers. It’s been an interesting month for me, what with Toronto dealing with an explosive 3rd wave of COVID, and me trying to get work done while my 5-year-old daughter does ‘school’ from home. Life has been, shall we say, interesting.

Then, two weeks ago my appendix decided it was time to rupture. That put me in the hospital for a few days, and then home in bed for a few more. I’m now almost fully recovered. But my May writing schedule mostly went to the dogs. I’m currently working on a new piece tentatively called ‘The Ritual of Capitalization’. It’ll take a deep dive into all the quantitative regularities that come from the ritual of capitalizing income. Stay tuned for this piece later in the week.

Although I was laid up for half of the month, May was not a total bust. I did manage to complete a little side project of mine. I’ve converted the entire back catalogue of the Review of Capital as Power (RECASP) into full-text HTML.

Founded as an open-access journal by Tim Di Muzio in 2012, RECASP articles have always been freely available online. But until recently, that meant downloading a PDF. Nice-looking PDFs are still the standard format for scientific papers, just as they were 20 years ago. But the internet has changed around us scientists. Today, half of all internet traffic is on mobile devices. And reading PDFs on a phone sucks.

Because the RECASP catalogue has some important articles that deserve to be widely read, I decided to convert them to HTML. For the techie readers, I used Pandoc for the job. I converted DOCX documents to markdown files, which I then edited for the desired formatting. Then I converted to HTML and pasted it into WordPress. Once I got the production line down, the process was surprisingly fast — about 30 minutes per article. With tech like that, there is literally no need for academic publishers. You can do it yourself with better results at a fraction of the cost.

Anyway, the full-text RECASP catalogue is now up here. For your viewing pleasure, I’ve mirrored the content below. Enjoy.

Articles

From Commodities to Assets Capital as Power and the Ontology of Finance Jesús Suaste Cherizola May 2021
Growing Through Sabotage Energizing Hierarchical Power Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan June 2020
The Autocatalytic Sprawl of Pseudorational Mastery Ulf Martin May 2019
Propertization The Process by which Financial Corporate Power has Risen and Collapsed Jongchul Kim September 2018
Theory and Praxis, Theory and Practice, Practical Theory Corentin DeBailleul, Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan April 2018
The CasP Project Past, Present and Future Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan April 2018
Putting Power Back Into Growth Theory Blair Fix June 2015
Can Capitalists Afford Recovery? Three Views on Economic Policy in Times of Crisis Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler October 2014
Wal-Mart’s Power Trajectory A Contribution to the Political Economy of the Firm Joseph Baines March 2014
Francis’ Buy-to-Build Estimates for Britain and the United States A Comment Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan October 2013
The Buy-­to-­Build Indicator New Estimates for Britain and the United States Joseph A. Francis October 2013
America’s Real ‘Debt Dilemma’ Sandy Brian Hager July 2013
The Rise of a Confident Hollywood Risk and the Capitalization of Cinema James McMahon February 2013
The 1%, Exploitation and Wealth Tim Di Muzio interviews Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan Shimshon Bichler, Jonathan Nitzan and Tim Di Muzio September 2012

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