Index

Return of Marxian Macro-Dynamics in East Asia

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(2017), "Index", Return of Marxian Macro-Dynamics in East Asia (Research in Political Economy, Vol. 32), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 303-316. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020170000032020

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INDEX

Abenomics
, 4, 7, 64, 69, 73

defined
, 64

endogeneity of money
, 76

historical background
, 65–69

intent of monetary policy
, 69–70

Abe, Shinzo
, 4

administration’s re-election
, 64

monetary policy
, 70

effectiveness of
, 70–76

Abstinence
, 302

Accumulation

state/imperatives of
, 161–162

without dispossession
, 202

A Critical Review of China’s Reform
, 9

Activist citizens
, 272

ADCs. See Advanced Countries (ADCs)

Addendum
, 189, 295

Administrative model
, 247

Advanced Countries (ADCs)
, 28, 31

countries and regions
, 29

nonexploitation case
, 30

transition of economic growth rate
, 68

Agricultural policy, fundamental reforms of
, 167

Alternatives
, 238

American Empire
, 187

American super-power
, 194

Analysis of Situations
, 190

Annual working hours
, 96

Anti-access/area-denial
, 211

Anti-capitalism
, 2

Anti-democratic machine
, 264

Anti-WTO protest in 2005
, 272

APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)
, 208

A Petty Bourgeoisie Manifesto
, 239

Argentina
, 96

Arrighi’s claim
, 201, 202

Artificially constructed
, 263

Asia
, 134–139, 143–148, 149

Asian crisis
, 95

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
, 214

Asian Migrant Centre (AMC)
, 271

Asian Migration Coordination Body (AMCB)
, 270

Asian Monetary Fund (AMF)
, 209

Asia-Pacific free trade accumulation strategy
, 146

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
, 211

Assumption

of constant returns to scale
, 287–289

of zero pure profit
, 289

ATKI (Association of Indonesian Domestic Workers)
, 270

Australian-based corporations
, 142

Australian institutions
, 151

Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act of 1901
, 262

Average growth rates
, 88

Bank assets
, 178

Banking system
, 179

reform
, 179

restructuring of
, 177–179

Central Bank “independent”
, 177–178

Commercial Banks
, 178–179

state-controlled
, 119

Bank loans
, 43, 171

Bank of Japan (BOJ)
, 2–5, 64, 70

Bank of Korea
, 85

Bankruptcy
, 171

financial distress
, 3

form of threat
, 164

threat of
, 172

Bank savings deposit
, 171

BASF
, 238

Beijing Consensus
, 210

Bethune House
, 270

Biopolitcs
, 191

Black organizations
, 235

Blackwill, Robert D.
, 215

Bo, Xilai
, 227, 228, 230–245, 249

Bonds

Japanese government
, 4

long- and short-term
, 4

Border control
, 261

Bordered Capitalism
, 259–264, 278

Bordered global capitalism
, 254

Borrower’s financial risk
, 51

Borrowing interest rates
, 48, 49

Brazilian agricultural exports
, 152

Brazil, trading partner
, 212

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)
, 136, 196

association
, 151

New Development Bank
, 214

British Alien Act of 1905
, 261

Bubble economy
, 39, 48

in Japan
, 47

Budget deficits
, 167

Bureaucrat-bourgeois
, 238

Bureaucratic capitalists
, 161

Bush, George W.
, 215

Business process outsourcing (BPO)
, 147

Business sentiments, straightforward observation of survey
, 47–49

Business survey
, 47

Capital
, 258

accumulation in Japanese economy
, 40

composition
, 115

intensive industries
, 88

wage-labor relationship
, 4

Capitalism, reproduction of
, 254

Capitalists
, 152

economies
, 107, 108, 199, 262

labor markets
, 258

Capital productivity
, 92

capacity utilization and cyclical component of
, 94

growth
, 93

puzzle
, 92–97

Capital-using technologies
, 95

Capital, value composition of
, 115

CCP. See Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Central banking functions (CSC)
, 168

Chaebols
, 88

Cheap labor cost
, 265

Chemical terrorism in the Tokyo subway system
, 48

Chile
, 96

China
, 31, 186

ambitions
, 186

ascent
, 9

basic input-output table
, 111

capitalist class
, 187

coastal cities
, 255

DVCs labor
, 31

economic
, 213

power
, 217

transition
, 107

export
, 119

extraordinary economic growth
, 199

GDP
, 212

imperialist rivals
, 202–217

integration, into global capitalist economy
, 142

international political economy
, 188

national wealth
, 160

reform (See Reform in China)

relative autonomy
, 202–217

geopolitical
, 196–202

socialist economy
, 110

state-socialist economy
, 107, 108, 110

supervisory labor
, 110

transnational capital
, 134

WTO accession
, 215

China-Japanese tension
, 216

China Labour Bulletin
, 173

China Model
, 210

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
, 152

China’s Chongqing Municipality
, 227

Chinese bureaucrats
, 142

Chinese campaigns, against crimes
, 235

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
, 162, 179

depoliticization strategy
, 163

labor system
, 164

leadership
, 166, 167

Chinese coolies
, 259

Chinese economists
, 108

Chinese economy
, 1, 7, 8, 106–109, 116, 118–120

from Marxian perspective
, 109

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
, 262

Chinese expansion
, 229

Chinese exports
, 215

Chinese households
, 212

Chinese investment in Brazil
, 213

Chinese labor
, 147

Chinese land unit
, 232

Chinese media system
, 142, 143

Chinese model
, 228

Chinese Outward FDI
, 211, 213

Chinese own-country labor
, 34

Chinese Revolution
, 196, 200

Chinese state policymakers
, 143

Chinese working class
, 255

Chongqing administration
, 232

Chongqing development of

after Bo Xilai
, 242–244

Chongqing incident
, 237, 238, 242, 248

left wing, implications of
, 248–249

Chongqing model
, 10, 228–231, 235, 240, 247

government-owned enterprises
, 234–236

household registration reform
, 232–233, 247–248

land certificates
, 247

market
, 231–232

leftism
, 238–242, 247

mass coverage
, 237–238

public housing program
, 233–234

public-land leasing system
, 234–236, 248

red ideological campaign
, 236–237

significance of
, 244–248

Chongqing’s economy
, 230

Chongqing’s GDP
, 230

Chongqing’s investment, in public housing
, 233

Chongqing’s Municipal government
, 234

commission for state-owned assets
, 245

Chongqing’s public rental housing
, 245

Chongqing’s revenue
, 234

Chongqing Statistics Bureau
, 243

Circulating capital
, 16

Citizenship
, 259–264, 263

from below
, 254

Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC)
, 263

Claim
, 228

Class struggle
, 161, 164

Climate crisis
, 148

Coinvestments
, 152

Colonial development
, 257

Colonialism
, 139

Commercial citizenship
, 266

Commercial housing developers
, 233

Commodities
, 16

domestic
, 21

exported
, 21

imported
, 21

Communist Party of China (CPC)
, 228, 236, 237, 243

Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing
, 244

Communities of value
, 263

Competitive advantage
, 257

Concubine economy
, 201

Conditional variance
, 50

Confrontation
, 231

Constant capital
, 16

Constant returns to scale
, 301

Consumption function
, 42

Consumption of fixed capital (CFC)
, 29

Contemporary capitalism
, 259

Contemporary Marxist accounts, paradoxes of
, 186–188

Contender states
, 195–197

Continuity thesis
, 187

Contribution analysis
, 32

Coolies
, 257, 259

Cost-cutting strategies
, 96

Cost-efficient and profitable
, 173

Countries/regions, definitions of
, 28

Cox, Robert
, 187

CPI
, 70

core-core
, 72

Credit cooperatives
, 48

Cross-fertilization
, 144

Cultural Revolution
, 108, 166, 176, 235, 238, 240

Cumulative interest-bearing debt burden
, 43

CU rate
, 94

Cutting costs
, 68

Data of instability
, 52

Dataset variables
, 52

Data transition
, 52

Dead labor
, 16

Debt burden
, 41, 42, 45, 51

Debt write-offs
, 178

Deficit
, 66

Depoliticization
, 160–164

accumulation imperative/politics
, 161–164

reform as political strategy
, 162–164, 181

Deportation, in detention camps
, 263

Deputy Director of Shanghai Pudong New Area Administration Commission
, 241

Deregulation of labor markets
, 64, 67

Developing Countries (DVCs)
, 29, 31

Developmental state theorists
, 1

Diffusion index (DI)
, 47

Di piao system
, 232

Domestically ruled
, 269

Domestic duties
, 257

Dutch colonial territory
, 259

Dynamic systems
, 46, 47

East Asia

miracle economy
, 82

role of TCC
, 143

socioeconomic system
, 10

US leadership
, 199

East Asian crisis
, 208

East Asian development
, 257

East Asian economies
, 10

East Asian production networks
, 10

East China Sea
, 136

Economic boom
, 43

Economic bubble burst
, 67

Economic catch-up, based on market economy
, 1

Economic crisis
, 1, 171

Economic development

Germany’s and Japan’s
, 198

Economic field, outline of reform
, 167

Economic fluctuations
, 66

Economic growth
, 40, 87

output expansion function
, 40

Economic performance
, 64

Economic power
, 192

Economic profit, of neoclassical theory
, 295

Economic reforms
, 229, 239, 248

Economic stability
, 45

Economic stagnation
, 40

Economic survey, short-term
, 49

Economic transition
, 109

Economy’s response
, 69

Efficiency first, equity second
, 242

Emperors
, 241

Empirical analysis
, 46, 47

business sentiments, straightforward observation of survey
, 47–49

instability of confidence
, 49–51

recursive VAR model
, 51–57

Empirical studies, international input-output tables
, 27–34

contribution analysis
, 32–34

conversion rate for country’s labor
, 28

database
, 28–29

exploitation
, 28

global labor value, wage basket composition
, 29–32

international input-output tables
, 27

Employees’ compensation
, 111

Employment Permit System (EPS)
, 256, 273, 274, 276

Employment Security Law
, 3

Endogenous capital-using technical
, 93

Enrichment of certain groups of people
, 160

Enterprises ownership, restructuring of
, 172

Epistemological framework
, 140

Equate Sraffa with Marx
, 287

Equitable wealth distribution
, 242

Error-term variance
, 50

Ethnographic research
, 150

Euphoria
, 41

European capitalist economies
, 258

European integration
, 208

European Monetary System (EMS)
, 207

European Monetary Union
, 209

Exchange rate
, 71

Exemplary workers
, 256

Exogenous capital-saving technical
, 93

Expected inflation rate
, 72

Exploitation
, 17–21, 290–292, 291, 301

in global economy
, 24–27

of global labor
, 27

rate of
, 30

Exporting the Chinese Model
, 229

Factory of the world
, 179

Faculty of Law at Peking University (FLPU)
, 235

Family wage
, 256

Far East Overseas Nepalese Association (FEONA)
, 270

FDI stock
, 211, 213

Federation of Asian Domestic Workers Unions in Hong Kong (FADWU)
, 272

Female migrant domestic workers
, 256

Fictitious growth
, 167

FIE. See Foreign Invested Enterprises (FIE)

Fifteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China
, 113

Filipino Domestic Helpers General Union
, 271

Filipino Migrant Workers Union (FMWU)
, 271

Finance
, 148–149

Financial administration
, 3

Financial anxieties
, 6

Financial capacity
, 192

Financial crisis
, 3

Financial instability
, 40

hypothesis
, 40, 56

Financial institutions
, 48, 70

Financial markets
, 146

Financial speculation
, 148

Fiscal Loan Fund
, 6

Fiscal policies
, 66

Five Chongqing
, 241

Fixed capital
, 16

formation, world share
, 205

Flexible fiscal policy
, 64

Fluctuations
, 112

FOE (Foreign-Owned Enterprises)
, 201

Foreign Affairs
, 217

Foreign exchange
, 70

Foreign Industrial Trainee Program (FITP)
, 255, 256, 273

Foreign Invested Enterprises (FIE)
, 201

Foreign labor
, 34

Fortune
, 238

Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)
, 211

Foxconn
, 238

Free wage labor
, 258

French Revolution
, 261

Fukushima nuclear plant disaster
, 4

Fully realised hegemony
, 195

Fundamental historical events
, 192

Fundamental Marxian Theorem
, 16, 17, 19, 21, 30

GARCH model
, 50

Gastarbeiter system
, 261

G7 countries
, 2

GDP
, 74, 242–243, 246

accounting
, 107

deflator

relative price of capital goods
, 95

global
, 28

growth
, 114

stagnated
, 7

non-financial enterprise sector
, 119

per capita
, 204

response of
, 55

GDS of Korea
, 87

Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model
, 49

Geopolitical autonomy
, 188–197

Germany

economic development
, 202

imperialist rivals
, 202–217

profitability crisis
, 206

Global approach
, 140

Global Assembly Lines
, 136

Global capital accumulation
, 7

Global capital investment
, 150

Global capitalism
, 135, 137, 146–149, 148, 152, 154, 264

contradictions and crisis of
, 1

school
, 137, 140–145, 147, 149

Global capitalist integration
, 139

Global care chain
, 256

Global competitiveness
, 145

Global economy
, 6, 21–27, 146–148

exploitation in
, 24–27

labor coefficient vector
, 22

labor value
, 22–24

profit’s existence
, 23

wage differences, among countries
, 21

Global financial power
, 201

Globalization
, 134–136, 141, 144, 147, 148, 151

from below
, 141

of capital
, 148

economy
, 21

Globalizing market
, 255

Globalizing politicians
, 141

Globally standardized labor regimes
, 146

Global market logic
, 142

Global markets
, 151

Global political economy
, 135, 154

Global politics
, 229

Global proletariat
, 147

Global system, crisis-prone
, 134

Global Times
, 244

Global Trends 2025
, 186

Good characters
, 264

Government debt, to GDP
, 66

Government-owned enterprises
, 234

Government-proposed wage
, 271

Gramsci, A.
, 196

Gramsci’s classical Marxist approach
, 188

Granger-causality test
, 91

Granger-cause labor productivity
, 91

Great Depression of 1930s
, 197

Great East Japan Earthquake
, 4

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
, 10

Great Hanshin Earthquake
, 48

Great Leap Forward movement
, 112

Greek economy
, 113

Gross rate of profit (GRP)
, 116

Gross vs. net rate of profit
, 116

Groups of powerful individuals
, 160

Growth-distribution schedule (GDS)
, 83, 85

analytical framework
, 84–85

Guangdong model
, 245, 246

Guest workers
, 255

Harvey’s theory
, 266

Hawkins-Simon condition
, 18, 19, 24–27

Hegemonic activity
, 191

Hegemonic world order
, 189

Hegemony
, 187–202, 207–210, 217

China’s expansion and its initial bid
, 210–214

Gramsci’s concept of
, 188

relative geopolitical autonomy
, 188–197

contender states, rise of
, 196–197

elements of Gramsci’s conception
, 190–192

international level and relative geopolitical autonomy
, 192–195

United States

continuity and crisis
, 187

difficulties in countering
, 214–217

signal crisis
, 189

vs. China’s relative geopolitical autonomy
, 197–202

Hewlett Packard
, 238

Historical materialism
, 135

Hong Kong
, 255

democratization movement
, 271

domestic labor movement organizations
, 270

migrant domestic workers
, 269, 272

migrant workers
, 268, 269, 273

minimum wage of HKD32.5
, 269

mobile labor
, 256

neoliberal globalization
, 272

NGO
, 271

SAR government
, 272

society
, 271

transformation
, 256

Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU)
, 272

Household Responsibility System
, 202

Housewives, to jobs
, 256

Hukou system
, 255

Human capital
, 96

Hundred thousand dollar question
, 288

HYOGO Bank
, 48

Imaginary experiment
, 289

IMF. See International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Immigration Act of 1882
, 262

Immigration Act of 1924
, 262

Impartial arbiter
, 164

Imperialism
, 139

Impulse responses
, 54, 55

Indian coolies
, 259

Indonesia

foreign domestic workers
, 268

Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (IMWU)
, 271

Industrial Trainee System
, 273

Input–output (IO) tables
, 16, 20, 21, 27, 29

Japan-USA-Asia-Europe
, 17

labor value in international IO framework
, 16

single country
, 16, 21

studies (See Empirical studies)

Instability of confidence
, 6, 40–47, 41, 49–51, 49–52, 54–57, 55

Interest-bearing debt burden
, 40, 41, 43–45, 59

Interest-payment burden
, 43

Internationalism
, 278

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
, 139

crisis
, 1

imposed structural adjustment
, 86

International political economy
, 188

Investment demand
, 41, 45

Investment function
, 41

IT industries
, 243

Jacobian matrix
, 44, 46

Japan
, 31

imperialist rivals
, 202–217

Japanese bubble economy
, 40

Japanese capital
, 206

Japanese economy
, 4, 6, 39, 40, 45, 47, 49, 78, 79

financial structure
, 40

fragility
, 40

Japanese government bonds
, 4

Japanese journalists
, 237

Japanese markets
, 64

Japanese wage basket, Chinese labor embodied
, 31

Japan’s economy
, 67, 73

economic development
, 202

economic policy
, 68

economic stagnation
, 64

Japan’s GDP
, 67

Japan’s inflation-adjusted economic growth
, 65

Japan’s laborers’ wage commodity
, 17

Japan’s torrent-like exports
, 66

Japan’s trade surplus
, 66

Japan’s workforce
, 69

Job securities
, 113, 114

Johansen’s cointegration test
, 53, 54

Joint Committee for Migrants in Korea (JCMK)
, 273, 274

Kaldor-Verdoorn effect
, 92

Keynesian economics
, 142

Keynesian macro-dynamic model
, 40, 41

Keynesian model
, 40

Keynesian wage-led growth model
, 2

Korea
, 31

Korea BorgWarner Changwon Union
, 276

Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)
, 275, 277

Korean economy
, 7, 86, 88

Korean labor movement
, 273

Korean workers
, 95

Kuznets curve
, 112

Labor
, 146–148

conversion rate of
, 27

heterogeneity of
, 16

Labor discipline, self-conscious observation of
, 166

Labor disputes
, 88

Labor embodied

own-country labor
, 33

in wage basket
, 33

Labor force, public management of
, 179

Labor income share
, 90

Labor Law
, 113

Labor management, restructuring of
, 173

Labor markets
, 173

de-regulating
, 64

deregulation of
, 67

flexibility
, 96

Labor migration
, 254, 265

Labor mobility, irregularity of
, 260

Labor power
, 269

Labor productivity
, 86, 92, 95

time series of
, 89

Labor system
, 164, 173

Labor value
, 21, 22, 24, 29

conditions for profit’s existence
, 18–19

contribution of
, 32

defined
, 17, 22

direct coefficient
, 22

equation
, 21

global matrix
, 24

role for
, 16

in single economy
, 17–18

measuring
, 19–21

surplus value, conversion rate
, 26

wage basket
, 26

composition of
, 29–32

Labour Law
, 176

Labour Law of 1994
, 174

Law on Commercial Banks
, 178

LDP’s economic policy
, 67

Leftism
, 238

Legalizing labor relations
, 176–177

Lehman Brothers
, 4

Lenders’ risk
, 43, 48, 51

Li, Minqi
, 239

Living individuals
, 265

Loans

crisis
, 40

tightening
, 48

Loss of wage
, 113

Macro-dynamics, in East Asia
, 2–8

Maoism
, 238, 240

Maoist era
, 114, 162

Maoist ideas
, 238

Maoist label
, 242

Maoist model of state capitalism
, 165

Maoist party leaders
, 166

Maoist social relations
, 161

Mao’s Cultural Revolution
, 228

Mao’s death
, 165, 166

Marginal propensity
, 42

Market discipline
, 172

Market of land
, 231

Marx-biased technical change (MBTC)
, 7, 85, 86, 92

Marxian alternative, for East Asia
, 10–11

Marxian approach
, 106

Marxian critiques
, 267

Marxian macro-dynamics
, 1

Marxian perspective
, 94

Marxian value
, 107

Marxian variables
, 111

for transitioning economy
, 106–110

Marxist accounts
, 187

Marxist concept
, 161

Marxist perspectives
, 161

Marxist political economy
, 9

of migration
, 265, 266

Marxists
, 255

Marxist theory
, 266

Marx’s analysis

of relative surplus value production
, 194

Marx’s Capital
, 184, 185, 188

Marx’s measure
, 115

Marx’s Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (MEW)
, 190

Material conditions for socialism
, 164

Material production
, 108

Material Product System (MPS)
, 108

Metal Workers Union
, 276

Metaphysics
, 290–292, 291, 297, 302

definition of
, 292

neoclassical
, 292

Mexican economy
, 113

Migrant branch
, 274

Migrant communities
, 274

Migrant domestic workers
, 269

Migrant labor
, 254, 268, 275, 279

subversive agency
, 265–268

Migrants
, 267

acts of subversion
, 267

inherently
, 267

Migrant Trade Union (MTU)
, 275–277

Migrant workers
, 176, 270, 271, 279

activism
, 269

growth of
, 118

movement
, 274, 277

social unrest and radicalization
, 180

Minister of Finance
, 67

Ministry for the Development of Urban and Rural Housing
, 245

Ministry of Employment and Labor
, 86

Ministry of Finance
, 2

Ministry of Finance’s Financial Statement Statistics of Corporations by Industry
, 71

Mission for Filipino Migrant Workers (MFMW)
, 270

Mixed property relations
, 202

Mobile labor
, 254–259, 256

Mode of production
, 134

Monetary policy
, 70, 203

aims of
, 70

expansionary
, 69

nontraditional
, 64

Money demand function
, 42

Money stock
, 74

Municipality
, 231

government’s revenue
, 234

National borders modernization
, 260

National Congress of CPC
, 248

National Development and Reform Commission
, 248

National economic growth
, 160

National income
, 85

National industrialization
, 258

National Intelligence Report (NIC)
, 186

National personality
, 192

National prosperity
, 160, 179

Nature-like market discipline
, 160

Neoclassical claims
, 86

Neoclassical economics
, 7

Neoclassical endogenous growth theory
, 93

Neoclassical policy
, 69

Neo-Gramscian analyses
, 187

Neoliberal globalization
, 254, 255, 258, 272

Neoliberal policies
, 78

Neoliberal structural reforms
, 68

Net income
, 43

Net rate of profit, decomposition of
, 116–118

Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism (NCSGC)
, 137

New normal
, 106, 118–119

New York Times
, 186

NGO, Hong Kong-based
, 271

Nikkei stock average
, 71

Nominal disposal income
, 75

Non-bank financial institutions
, 168

Non-capitalist market economy
, 187

Nonperforming loans
, 3, 40

Non-profit institutions
, 109

Nonregular employees
, 68

Non-Western rising states
, 186

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
, 136, 198, 208

Oceania
, 134–139, 142, 145–146, 152

15 October incident
, 240

ODI
, 213

OECD countries
, 91

OECD economies
, 95

OECD members
, 96

OECD Structural Analysis database
, 93

Officially sanctioned resolution processes
, 177

One Belt, One Road
, 229

Output expansion function
, 40

Overseas Domestic Workers Union
, 271

Pacific Rim
, 138

PACOM
, 215

Park, Geun-Hye
, 2

Party of the foreigner
, 193

People’s Bank of China (PBC)
, 168, 177, 178

Philippines, foreign domestic workers
, 268

Physical punishment
, 269

Policymakers
, 136, 139

Policy-rate balance
, 5

Political economists
, 134, 142

Political economy
, 239

contemporary dynamics of
, 136

globalization and the contemporary dynamics of
, 136

Political measures
, 193

Political stability
, 179

Post-Chiang Mai Initiative in 2009
, 214

Post-Mao reform, historical context of
, 164–166

Poverty
, 238

Power transition
, 144

PRC
, 242

President Obama
, 186

Price reforms
, 248

Prison Notebooks
, 192, 194

Private business
, 235

Privitization
, 163

Problem-solving
, 247

Production capital
, 148–149

Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (PCMC)
, 287, 296

Productive sectors
, 109

Profit
, 233

Profitability
, 106, 107, 118, 119

crisis
, 202

Profit-driven culture-ideology of consumerism
, 141

Profit seeking
, 145

Progressive economists
, 1

Progressive Labor Union of Domestic Workers
, 271

Proliferation of borders
, 260

Public housing construction
, 233

Public housing program
, 233

Public ownership
, 235

Public rental housing
, 245

Public sector shrunk
, 173

Qi, Hao
, 7–8

Qifan, Huang
, 232

QQE. See Quantitative and Qualitative monetary easing (QQE)

Quaderni
, 189, 191

Quantitative and Qualitative monetary easing (QQE)
, 4, 5

Bank of Japan
, 4

with yield curve control
, 5

Race-based categories
, 262

Racial institutions
, 262

Racialization
, 135–136

Rate of profit
, 301

Rate of real economic growth
, 65

Rate of surplus value (RSV)
, 106, 111, 112

in China
, 106

contribution of
, 117

decomposition of
, 117

net rate of profit
, 117

and profitability
, 107

R&D investment
, 93

Real exports, growth rate of
, 74

Real GDP, growth rate of
, 72

Real private consumption, growth rate of
, 73

Real private investment, growth rate of
, 74

Real profit, defined
, 41

Real wages
, 75

income
, 41

rate
, 92

relationship between technical change
, 88–92

time series of
, 89

Reconfiguring sovereignty
, 137

Recursive VAR
, 40, 47, 49, 51, 53, 54

analysis
, 47, 53

model
, 47, 49, 51–57

Red Songs
, 242

campaign
, 236

Reform in China
, 160–164

first phase of reform

limitations
, 167–171

governing strategy
, 179–181

market-oriented
, 160

second phase of reform
, 171–179

Reforms test field
, 230

Regional economic organizations
, 208

Regular employees
, 68

Regular employment
, 69

Relative geopolitical autonomy
, 188

Rest of the world (RoW)
, 28

Revival of the Cultural revolution
, 236

Revolution against Capital
, 190

Rise of China
, 199

Routh-Hurwitz conditions
, 46

RSV. See Rate of surplus value (RSV)

Rural migrant workers, into cities
, 175–176

Rural residents
, 175

Rural underemployed population
, 113

Russian Revolution
, 200, 261

Samwoo Precision Industry Union
, 276

Self-employed sector
, 110

Seongseo Industrial Park Trade Union
, 274

Seoul-Gyeongi Equal Trade Union in 2001
, 274

Singing Red
, 236, 237

Skills
, 269

Social classes
, 134, 137, 139, 141

Social forces
, 189

Socialism
, 239, 245, 250

Socialist consciousness
, 166

Socialist market economy
, 202

Socialist Transformation
, 107

Social movement citizenship
, 11, 254, 268

democracy against capitalism
, 268–279

Social polarization
, 1

Social protection
, 174

Social reproduction
, 141

Social wages
, 162

Socioeconomic policies
, 162

Socioeconomic system, in East Asia
, 10

Solow’s misreading of Sraffa
, 295–297

Solow's response
, 287–293

South China Sea
, 214, 216

South Korea
, 254, 255

capitalism
, 255

international migrant population
, 255

migrant workers
, 268, 273, 275

mobile labor
, 255, 256

Soviet Union
, 200

Special Economic Zones
, 246

Sprague-Silgado reviews
, 8

Sraffa, general equilibrium framework
, 289–290

Sraffa recalls
, 289

Sraffa’s model
, 290

Sraffa’s prices
, 290

Sraffa’s rate of profits
, 289

Sraffa’s theory
, 289

State apparatus
, 151–152

State capitalism
, 162, 202

State-owned enterprises (SOEs)
, 161, 178, 179

State-owned specialized banks (SOBs)
, 168

State policymakers
, 141

Stochastic simulations
, 57

Stock, purchase of
, 70

Structural change
, 40, 51, 56, 57

Sturm und Drang hegemony
, 197

Subversive migration
, 261

Supernumeraries
, 146

Supervisory labor

in China’s state-socialist economy
, 110

compensation
, 111

Surplus value (SV)
, 110, 112

conversion rate
, 26

SV. See Surplus value (SV)

Taiwan
, 31

Taiwanese transnational capital
, 143

Tax rate
, 234

TCC. See Transnational capitalist class (TCC)

Technical change

historical directions
, 85–88

Tertium gaudens
, 215

Testing grounds
, 247

Thailand, foreign domestic workers
, 268

Thai Migrant Workers Union
, 271

Thai Regional Alliance in Hong Kong
, 270

The Chongqing Model revisited
, 239

The Economist
, 233

The economy as a whole
, 291

THEM
, 263, 278

Theoretical model
, 41–47

Tiger economies
, 257

Township and village enterprises (TVEs)
, 164, 168, 173, 179, 202

credit-dependent
, 175

Trading partner
, 212

Transform China
, 164

Transmission mechanisms
, 70

Transnational capital
, 199

agricultural exports
, 152

Chinese fractions
, 138

Transnational capitalism
, 147

state/hegemony, in East Asia
, 8–9

Transnational capitalist class (TCC)
, 134, 138, 145–146, 148

activities of
, 138

formation
, 139

model
, 141

Transnational capitalist processes
, 8

Transnational corporations (TNCs)
, 135

Transnational dynamics
, 149–150

Transnational financial institutions
, 135

Transnational global capitalism
, 8

Transnationally oriented elites
, 151–152

Transnational-oriented capitalists
, 139

Transnational processes
, 134

Transnational production capital
, 149

Transnational social
, 137

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
, 64, 70, 138, 216

TVEs. See Township and village enterprises (TVEs)

Ultra-expansionary policy
, 69

Unemployment rate
, 75

Union of Nepalese Domestic Workers
, 271

United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL)
, 270

United States
, 90, 96, 110, 180, 260

difficulties in countering
, 214–217

economy
, 107, 113, 215

imperialist rivals
, 202–217

treasury bonds
, 201

Treasury Department
, 139

Unlimited supply of labor
, 202

Unproductive sectors, share of surplus value
, 114

U.N. System of National Accounts (SNA)
, 108

U-shape, of labor’s share
, 112

USSR
, 165

Valorization borders
, 259–264

Variable capital (VC)
, 110

Vector autoregression (VAR) analysis
, 40, 51

Vector error-correction model (VECM)
, 90

Verbal abuses
, 269

Wages

basket

Chinese labor embodied
, 34

foreign labor embodied
, 33

own-country labor embodied
, 33

in China
, 29

cost induced labor productivity
, 91

cutting
, 163

high
, 291

labor embodied composition, in countries’ wage baskets
, 30

and labor hours
, 29

low
, 291

Wal-Mart
, 111

War on Terror
, 215

Washington Consensus
, 210

Western media
, 237

Western observers
, 246

West European-style neo-mercantilist regional trade policy
, 206

Worker Dispatching Law
, 3

Work intensification
, 163

World Bank
, 29, 139

World capitalism
, 134–136

World Development Indicators (WDI)
, 29

World Input Output Database (WIOD)
, 6, 28, 29

World-systems theory
, 189

World Trade Organization (WTO)
, 111, 142, 201

Yanda
, 235

Youngjin Industry Union
, 276

Youth unemployment
, 167