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Valueless Knowledge-Commodities and Financialization

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  • Rodrigo Alves Teixeira
  • Tomas Nielsen Rotta

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We present a Marxian theory of the capitalist production of knowledge and of financialization as two processes subsumed under the principle of autonomization of capital. Our approach consists of three tasks. The first is to develop the principle of autonomization. The second is to show how financialization can be a misleading term. The third is to develop a new theory of the production and distribution of valueless knowledge-commodities and knowledge-rent. Our Marxian framework demonstrates how the autonomization of capital manifests itself in its two active dimensions: the financial through financialization, and the productive through knowledge-commodities. JEL codes : B51, O33, O34 1

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  • Rodrigo Alves Teixeira & Tomas Nielsen Rotta, 2012. "Valueless Knowledge-Commodities and Financialization," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 44(4), pages 448-467, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:44:y:2012:i:4:p:448-467
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    Keywords

    Marx; financialization; autonomization; intellectual property rights; valueless commodities; knowledge-rent;
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    JEL classification:

    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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