{"id":5280,"date":"2025-02-10T12:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/arrighi\/event\/arrighi-center-general-seminar-value-price-and-profit-in-the-contemporary-world-system-8\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:21:47","slug":"arrighi-center-general-seminar-value-price-and-profit-in-the-contemporary-world-system-8","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/arrighi\/event\/arrighi-center-general-seminar-value-price-and-profit-in-the-contemporary-world-system-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrighi Center General Seminar: Discussion of Rupert Russell’s “Price Wars”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At our February 28 seminar we will discuss Rupert Russell\u2019s book, Price Wars: How The Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World<\/em> (Doubleday Books) 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme of the Spring 2025 Arrighi Center General Seminar is \u201cValue, Price and Profit in The Contemporary World System\u201d (aka “Are Profits Hurting Capitalism?)”.<\/strong>  The spring seminar will be let by Professor Chris Nealon<\/a>, JHU English Department and Arrighi Center Faculty Advisory Board Member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring semester theme description:<\/strong> How can we develop ways of linking all the different elements of today\u2019s \u201cpolycrisis\u201d into a strong account of the contemporary world?  One way might be to study what makes profit for capitalism \u2013 and what doesn\u2019t. In this seminar we will explore the bridges between the problems of capitalist profitability and contemporary politics. We\u2019ll begin with some reading from Marx that give us a powerful theory of value, then move on to a variety of contemporary case studies that link the dynamics of capitalist profitability to commodity speculation, the development of AI, the green transition, and the rise of right-wing populism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, the seminar is open to JHU students, faculty, postdocs, visiting scholars, alumni and Arrighi Center friends (old and new) in Baltimore and around the world. The seminar meets weekly on Fridays at 1:30 pm (Baltimore time), in person in 526 Mergenthaler Hall (JHU Homewood campus) with a zoom option for those outside Baltimore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate students who would like to take the Seminar for academic credit or audit should sign up for 230.676. Undergraduates can participate for academic credit by signing up under 230.376.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be added to the Arrighi Center mailing list (or update your email address) and\/or to request the seminar zoom link, please fill out\u00a0this Google form<\/a>. For questions, contact\u00a0arrighi@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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