The Global Political Economy of Israel (Book Review)

The Global Political Economy of Israel (Book Review)
Plaut, Steven. (2003). The Middle East Quarterly. Vol. X. No. 2. (Review; English).

Alternative Locations

http://www.meforum.org/article/545, http://www.meforum.org/pf.php?id=1567

Abstract or Brief Description

FROM THE REVIEW: “The term ‘political economy’ in Nitzan and Bichler's work gives the book away. It is neither economics nor political science but flow-of-consciousness Marxoid rhetoric. The authors could not pass a quiz in first-year economics, and I doubt they would do well in freshman political science either. Instead, they pack their book with the usual leftist pseudo-thoughts. . . . The Global Political Economy of Israel is full of baseless sweeping generalities unsupported by any scientific evidence at all. . . .To the extent that there really is a ‘dominant class’ in Israel, it consists of yuppie leftists who vote for the left-wing political parties, in other words people very much like the two authors themselves. . . . The book is true to the genre of radical ‘scholarship’ in believing that nothing is so powerfully analytic as the invention of a nice polysyllable. . . . Such pomposity, mixed with a few macroeconomic structural equations with some Greek letters that the authors clearly do not understand, is meant to convey the impression of depth and scholarship. Could the authors even read a balance of payments table?”

Language

English

Publication Type

Review

Keywords

academia Israel

Subject

BN Myth
BN Ideology

ID Code

144

Deposited On

12 June 2007

Commentary/Response Threads

• Nitzan, Jonathan and Bichler, Shimshon. The Global Political Economy of Israel. (deposited 30 November 2010)
  • Starman, Hannah. Review of Nitzan and Bichler’s "The Global Political Economy of Israel". (deposited 14 June 2007)
  • Tzfadia, Erez. Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "The Global Political Economy of Israel". (deposited 19 June 2007)
  • Bouillon, Markus R.. Forget the New Historians. Here are the Real Revisionists (Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "The Global Political Economy of Israel"). (deposited 14 June 2007)
  • Kimmerling, Baruch. Revisionist Economics. Review of Bichler and Nitzan's "The Global Political Economy of Israel". (deposited 14 June 2007)
    • Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan. We Said It All Along. Reply to Baruch Kimmerling's Review of "The Global Political Economy of Israel". (deposited 14 June 2007)
  • Gee, John. New Perspective. Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "The Global Political Economy of Israel". (deposited 12 June 2007)
  • Butko, Thomas J.. The Global Political Economy of Israel (Book Review). (deposited 14 June 2007)
  • Plaut, Steven. The Global Political Economy of Israel (Book Review) . (deposited 12 June 2007) [Currently Displayed]
  • Plessner, Yakir. The Global Political Economy of Israel (Book Review). (deposited 12 June 2007)
  • Wilson, Rodney. The Global Political Economy of Israel (Book Review). (deposited 14 June 2007)
  • Selby, Jan. Post-Zionist Perspectives on Contemporary Israel. (deposited 25 June 2007)
  • Boal, Iain and Clark, T. J. and Matthews, Joseph and Watts, Michael. Blood for Oil?. (deposited 26 July 2007)
    • Nitzan, Jonathan and Bichler, Shimshon. The Scientist and the Church. (deposited 04 February 2007)
      • Machover, Moshé. Letter to Bichler and Nitzan: points of agreement and disagreement on the labour theory of value and on power. (deposited 10 August 2005)
    • Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan. Imperialism and Plagiarism. (deposited 21 May 2006)
      • Wrubel, Robert. Plagiarism, Expropriation, and Commercialism (Letter to the Editor). (deposited 10 August 2006)
  • Colorful, Adjective. Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "The Global Political Economy of Israel". (deposited 25 June 2007)
  • Watzal, Ludwig. Nahostkonflikt als Spiegel der Weltwirtschaft (Review of "The Global Political Economy of Israel"). (deposited 12 June 2007)
  • Malm, Andreas. Blod för Olja? ('Blood for Oil?' Review of The Global Political Economy of Israel). (deposited 14 June 2007)
  • Hanieh, Adam. Global Capitalism and Israel (Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "The Global Political Economy of Israel") . (deposited 12 June 2007)