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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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sine qua non

To say that productivity increases only by dint of constant socio-technical development amounts to claiming that a growing expenditure of energy is the sine qua non of profit creation.

—p.159 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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Washington Consensus

China’s economic development suggests the possibility of a Chinese twenty-first century, with a ‘Beijing Consensus’ succeeding the ‘Washington Consensus’.

—p.156 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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financialization

It is then that the systemic cycle of accumulation enters into its ‘financial’ phase. This phase corresponds to what we above called ‘financialization’ – that is, capital’s tendency as a result of the fall in profit rates to take refuge in the financial sphere and speculation.

—p.153 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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world-systems theory

Arrighi is a ‘world-systems’ theorist, one of the best known after Wallerstein, who is primarily responsible for developing this theory

—p.151 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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autarkic

it leads to advocating ‘autarchic’ solutions, which consist in ‘delinking’ the economies of the periphery from the world market and pursuing ‘auto-centred’ economic development

on center-periphery logic over class conflict-logiv

—p.145 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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