205: Capitalism, Hierarchy, and Energy

We talk to Blair Fix, a graduate student at York University in Canada, about his fascinating research examining energy and hierarchy and the relationship between hierarchy and personal income. I sound tired in the intro because I was, but the interview was recorded on a different day, so I don't sound so much like a lazy slug in the rest of the episode.

Reading mentioned or referenced:

• Capital as Power by Shimshon Bichler & Jonathan Nitzan
• A Power Theory of Personal Income Distribution by Blair Fix
• Energy and Institution Size by Blair Fix
• Growing through Sabotage: Energizing Hierarchical Power by Bichler & Nitzan
• Debunking Economics by Steve Keen
• The Invention of Capitalism by Michael Perelman
• When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
• A Critical History of Economic Thought by E.K. Hunt
• Debt by David Graeber
• Rethinking Economic Growth Theory From a Biophysical Perspective by Blair Fix
• Uneven and Combined Confusion: On the Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism and the Rise of the West by Tim Di Muzio
• Against the Grain by James Scott
• Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality by T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
• Abolish Human Rentals: The Fundamental Myth by David Ellerman