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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:21:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>"National Champions" in Global Meat Supply Chains: Implications for Governance and Corporate Power in Food Systems</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313787</link>
      <description>Title: "National Champions" in Global Meat Supply Chains: Implications for Governance and Corporate Power in Food Systems
Authors: Sievert, Katherine; Howard, Philip H.; San Martim Portes, Alexandre; Yamaoka, Marina
Abstract: National champion policies in BRICS countries pose challenges for governance in global meat processing markets as they increase concentration, reduce competition and enhance corporate power in food systems. We investigate the degree to which these shifts benefit sponsoring governments and citizens relative to intervention levels. By analysing mergers and acquisitions involving these firms, we unveil coordinated growth strategies benefiting primarily transnational capitalist investors. Our findings underscore the need for heightened scrutiny of national champion mergers and consideration of stronger international antitrust regulation. Understanding the evolving corporate power dynamics in meat supply chains is essential for improved ecological and social outcomes.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Monetary Expansionism, Global Commodity Prices, and Global Inequality</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/314455</link>
      <description>Title: Monetary Expansionism, Global Commodity Prices, and Global Inequality
Authors: Kim, Jongchul
Abstract: An early analysis of the imperialist implications of the surge of global commodity prices was conducted in 2014 by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. However, their analysis did not consider how the US monetary and fiscal expansionist policies have contributed to the rise of global commodity prices. This article fills this gap. Arguably, under the current international fiat money system established in the early 1970s, the US has had the opportunity to use artificial money-creation mechanisms to enjoy the wealth produced by people outside the US without cost. This article argues that the US monetary and fiscal expansionist policies, including quantitative easing, are cases where the US takes advantage of such an opportunity and that the free transfer of wealth is a cause of the surge in global commodity prices.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Shifting Fortunes of Corporate Psychedelia</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/325219</link>
      <description>Title: The Shifting Fortunes of Corporate Psychedelia
Authors: Hager, Sandy Brian
Abstract: This article traces the shifting fortunes of for-profit psychedelic medicine through two phases: a boom from 2016 to late 2021, followed by a bust that continued through late 2024. It argues that the forces driving this cycle are best understood through the concept of capitalization, which links present valuations to investor expectations about future earnings. Engaging the capital-as-power framework, the article situates psychedelic companies within the broader biopharmaceutical sector, showing how the volatility of drug development is intensified by the unruliness of these substances as capitalized assets. This unruliness stems from a range of factors, including murky intellectual property claims, unpredictable and intense subjective experiences, and lingering cultural stigma. During the boom, firms attracted significant interest from venture capital and other investors by promising revolutionary breakthroughs in mental health treatment. As expectations rose, so did valuations. But disappointing results from clinical trials, regulatory setbacks, and deepening doubts about the ability to control and standardize psychedelic therapies led to sharp declines in investor confidence. Analyzing financial performance alongside investor narratives, the article underscores the tensions involved in subjecting these unruly substances to the logic of capitalist power.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>El orden y el creorden como expresión de “El capital como poder” en la perspectiva de Bichler y Nitzan</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/334360</link>
      <description>Title: El orden y el creorden como expresión de “El capital como poder” en la perspectiva de Bichler y Nitzan
Authors: Miranda Valdivia, Elfer G.; Miranda Lozano, Froylán E.
Abstract: Los autores exploran la teoría de El capital como poder de los economistas Bichler y Nitzan, que redefine el capital como institución central del capitalismo al cuantificar el poder mediante la capitalización y acumulación diferenciales. Con base en sus postulados: a) critican las visiones neoclásica y marxista, vía la introducción de conceptos como el holograma social, la resonancia y la disonancia, para explicar la lógica totalizante del poder capitalista; b) describen el “creorden” como proceso de reconfiguración social impulsado por las élites y el sabotaje estratégico como mecanismo de limitación de la industria; y c) analizan el rol del Estado en el nomos capitalista y las nuevas “envolturas” de acumulación en situaciones de crisis. Como notas crítico-bibliográficas, además del valor de esta contribución, destacan lagunas en la propuesta original e insisten en integrar un análisis monetario e histórico más pormenorizado para enriquecer sus aproximaciones.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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