Riccardo Bellofiore

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heretic among ekons questioning: is there life on Marx? still looking for trouble

Summer extravaganza by two usually boring people (at least one of us). We shouldn’t write it, hence we did. A #Marxian piece, disguised as Martian. About #Musk, #AI, robots, Mars, Iain M. Banks, with rather serious questions about #capitalism. Time well wasted. Or not. @zannymb @TheEconomist.

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Now online: 'The billionaire who did away with money' by Riccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova.

1/ Just out in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics: "Meeting Pasinetti. Personal recollections and theoretical questioning". Part memoir, part homage to Luigi Pasinetti, one of the greatest political economists, and to the Italian style of political economy he belonged to.

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Some thoughts on the potential direction of travel for Andy Burnham's political economy. The interesting ideas on the left relate to with the supply side -- ownership, control and distribution -- and offer scope for action. The macro constraints still bind however. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Will Andy Burnham’s political economy be any different? | LSE British Politics

Andy Burnham is about to become Prime Minister having signaled he wants to break with the political economy of the past 40 years. At the same time, he has committed to sticking with Rachel Reeves' fis...

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📚 In Indiscipline no. 11 (Morlacchi Editore, 2026), in Italian, I edited a section on some of Keynes's works: Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Economic Perspectives for our Grandchildren (1930), A Treatise on Money (1930), General Theory (1936). Four contributions, four voices. A thread 🧵

Next Monday at Fondazione Basso there will be a dialogue with Stefano Petrucciani (and Chiara Giorgi as chair) on the two book by Claudio Napoleoni I edited in 2025 on Smith Ricardo Marx and on Marx's Theories of Surplus Value. Streaming on youtube.

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Milano, Casa della Cultura Venerdì 21 novembre 2025 ore 18.00 Presentazione dei libri LEZIONI SULLE TEORIE SUL PLUSVALORE DI MARX e SMITH RICARDO MARX di Claudio Napoleoni a cura di riccardo bellofiore Intervengono oltre al Curatore: Giacomo Marramao Marcello Messori

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‘Marx's Theories on surplus value: Claudio Napoleoni's !972-73 Lectures in Turin’. The lecture in Italian held 26/2/2025 at Teoria Critica della Società (University of Milan-Bicocca). youtu.be/9fvoTIai3uU?... Details about the book: www.edizionipgreco.it/libro/978886... #marx #napoleoni #value

TCS | Riccardo Bellofiore "Le lezioni di Claudio Napoleoni sulle Teorie sul plusvalore di Marx"

YouTube video by Teoria Critica della Società - Università Bicocca

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An Italian essay by R. Bellofiore, G. Vertova, F. Garibaldo of: - Ardeni, Gallegati, La trappola dell’efficienza - Saitō Kōhei, Capital in the Anthropocene - Carl Cassegård, Toward a Critical Theory of Nature Could be controversial. You can find it here. www.futura-editrice.it/prodotto/rps...

RPS N. 1/2025 - Futura Editrice

Innovare è possibile. Percorsi per un Servizio sanitario nazionale all’altezza delle sfide in atto

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It's a pity that it was never put online this roundtable in Zagreb btw Giovanna Vertova, Michael Heinrich and yours truly. At the Subversive Festival, some years ago, we engaged in a panel discussion on issues at the intersection of gender, social reproduction, and the critique of political economy.

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