Monopoly and Crisis in the Era of the "Giant Corporation": Neo-Marxist versus Radical Institutionalist Approaches
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Two competing tendencies in American radical economics developed in reaction to the emergence of the modern corporation: an institutionalist tendency associated with Thorstein Veblen, and a neo-Marxian one associated with Paul Sweezy and Paul Baran. How do their theories compare? Although the two tendencies have different starting points — one empirical and the other more abstract — they end up with remarkably similar ideas, particularly regarding competition, monopoly and the corporation. And while they diverge somewhat on the issue of crisis, these differences are neither irreconcilable nor a result of fundamentally different theoretical approaches. In fact, the two tendencies are surprisingly similar in the end precisely because Baran and Sweezy adopt some core Veblenian ideas, requiring a parallel shift away from the core elements of Marx's systematic analysis of capitalism: his method and his theory of value.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it