Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/233625 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Review of Capital as Power [Volume:] 2 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Forum on Capital As Power - Toward a New Cosmology of Capitalism [Place:] s.l. [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 1-29
Publisher: 
Forum on Capital As Power - Toward a New Cosmology of Capitalism, s.l.
Abstract: 
* Winner of the 2021 RECASP Essay Prize * Assets are a crucial concept of the practice and mindset of the capitalist class. Critical analyses of capitalism, however, tend to admit that the exchange of commodities is the foundation of the analysis of capitalism. This article takes a different approach. I claim that assets offer a solid starting point for a scientific research of capitalism. The analysis of assets allows us to elaborate a general description of economic transactions and, to that extent, it lays the groundwork for reconceptualizing the field of finance. These two issues are closely related. The answer to the question, ‘what are assets?’, will give us the coordinates to address the question: ‘what is finance?’
Subjects: 
assets
commodities
finance
financialization
ownership
power
property
value
JEL: 
P16
G
D46
P1
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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