James M Cypher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3845743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Cypher |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cypher |
| SIGNATURE | CYPHER J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fresno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Downplaying U.S. Imperialism Despite its Ongoing Tenacity: The Latin American Dimension – A Comment
Latin America's Second Lost Decade
The Political Economy of Systemic U.S. Militarism
The U.S. industrial-military-congressional complex is made up of the interdependent dynamics of military contractor corporations, military forces, intelligence agencies, and the civilian national security state, which take form as strategy, political-economy factors, and international affairs shift
Pandemic Perspectives on Medicine and Militarism
The past, present and likely future of “pandemic perspectives” are here briefly examined: as embedded in the contemporary structure of speculative-based production, unsustainable path-dependent dynamics augur a difficult future of enhanced ecological ruptures under the current regime of accumulation. This has hastened pandemic moments, now including COVID-19 in 2020. Of particular note is the striking case of the wallowing US beset by multiple “m…
From Structuralism to Neoliberal Depredation and Beyond: Economic Transformations and Labor Policies in Latin America, 1950-2016
From the 1930s until the early 1970s, national industrialization programs in Latin America were part of an effort to introduce social policies that broadened the national market, indirectly creating employment opportunities. Yet, Celso Furtado and other structuralists found the pattern of investment in Latin America predetermined by the unequal composition of aggregate demand, skewed toward the landholding-industrial-financial elite and newly eme…
Hegemony, military power projection and US structural economic interests in the periphery
Positing the dawning of a ‘post-American World’, ‘declinists’ have taken little account of the USA’s surging interventionist tendencies and the new political economy of military power arising from the relentless pursuit of global militarism. The USA has long exercised its competitive advantage in military power to enhance its diplomatic clout, as well as to advantageously reposition its national industrial and financial base. The pace of such mar…
China and Latin America: Processes and Paradoxes
Energy Privatized: The Ultimate Neoliberal Triumph
Mexico since Nafta: Elite Delusions and the Reality of Decline
The Strategic Role of Mexican Labor under Nafta: Critical Perspectives on Current Economic Integration
This article aims to reveal the precise meaning of Mexico's export platform by focusing on maquiladoras and the disguised maquila industry. In both sectors, imported components account for 75 to 90 percent of export value. As a result, benefits for the Mexican economy are basically restricted to wages, that is, the value of the labor incorporated into the exports. The authors argue that what is actually taking place is the disembodied exportation…
From Military Keynesianism to Global-Neoliberal Militarism
In mid-summer of 2006 a Harris Opinion poll revealed that roughly 50 percent of the U.S. public believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) had been found in Iraq by U.S. forces and nearly two-thirds of those polled thought that the Iraqi regime had been collaborating with al-Qaeda forces prior to the Washington invasion in the spring of 2003. All this, of course, stood in stark contrast to the facts as they were then known and grudgingly ack…
The Political Economy of the Chilean State in the Neoliberal Era: 1973–2005
While the present-day state in Chile operates far beyond the narrowest constraints of the “neolib-eral ” state as strictly defined, it is nonetheless fatally confined by the ideological limits imposed through the neolib-eral vision of the state. Hence, Chile lacks a national development strategy and is now forced to operate within the parameters of a quasi-stagnationist structure, temporarily buoyed by 19th-century-style commodities booms. In a p…
Conventional Economics: Scientific Pretensions, Ideological Dimensions
Capitalism and its Economics: A Critical History by Douglas DowdThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Nafta's Lessons: From Economic Mythology to Current Realities
Developing Disarticulation Within the Mexican Economy
Mexico's neoliberal export-led development model, imposed slowly and haltingly during President Miguel de la Madrid's administration (19821988) and with a vengeance during that of President Carlos Salinas (19881994), survived the devastating impact of the peso crisis of 1994-1995. Survival, however, came at an extraordinarily high price and not through any process that would indicate the underlying vigor of the neoliberal free-trade On the contra…
The Slow Death of the Washington Consensus on Latin America
In the late 1980s, the term Washington Consensus served to encapsulate the crystallization of a paradigmatic shift in economic policy making regarding Latin America. The intellectual impetus behind the consensus view clearly flowed from Washington, the locus of the U.S. Treasury, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Equally important, the consensus encompassed key Latin American business elites and functionaries of the state appar…
Other books in review
La política de México para la promoción de exportaciones: Un Nuevo Patrón De Acumulación
James M. Cypher, Hortensia Moreno, Salvador Mendiola, La política de México para la promoción de exportaciones: ¿un nuevo patrón de acumulación?, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 53, No. 3, El Tratado de Libre Comercio y la Frontera Norte (Jul. - Sep., 1991), pp. 81-110
Wasting Away: From Instability into the Abyss
Review of The Waste of Nations: Dysfunction in the World Economy by Douglas Dowd.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
"The Debt Crisis as "Opportunity: Strategies to Revive U.S. Hegemony
As Latin America's worst economic crisis, which began in 1982, entered its seventh year, it seemed certain to deepen as the two giants of the region, Brazil and Mexico, tightened their embrace of austerity plans and free market solutions. Such solutions hinged-upon the successful implementation of new programs designed to expand Latin America's export capacity. But these programs, which had been so ruthlessly pursued by several Latin American gov…
Militarism, Monetarism and Markets: Reagan's Response to the Structural Crisis
Marx and Historical Method
Review of Marx and History by D. Ross Gandy.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
"The Basic Economics of "Rearming America
Both President Reagan and his Secretary of Defense, Gaspar Weinberger, have proclaimed that raising military expenditures, while slashing social spending, is part of their policy of "rearming America." The objective of current policy is to push for a massive military buildup much like that realized in the early 1950s. In fact, if trust funds such as social security (which are largely self-financing) and interest on the debt (an "uncontrollable" i…
The Internationalization of Capital and The Transformation of Social Formations: A Critique of the Monthly Review School
The ahistorical, static and exchanged-based "development of un der development" theory of the conjuncture between the most developed nations and the historically underdeveloped regions fails to describe the origins and the nature of the disarticulated world economy and cannot account for the growing significance of some less developed countries in the world economy. A dynamic, historical and production-based approach to development theory which d…
The Strategic Role of Mexican Labor under Nafta: Critical Perspectives on Current Economic Integration
This article aims to reveal the precise meaning of Mexico's export platform by focusing on maquiladoras and the disguised maquila industry. In both sectors, imported components account for 75 to 90 percent of export value. As a result, benefits for the Mexican economy are basically restricted to wages, that is, the value of the labor incorporated into the exports. The authors argue that what is actually taking place is the disembodied exportation…
Developing Disarticulation Within the Mexican Economy
Mexico's neoliberal export-led development model, imposed slowly and haltingly during President Miguel de la Madrid's administration (19821988) and with a vengeance during that of President Carlos Salinas (19881994), survived the devastating impact of the peso crisis of 1994-1995. Survival, however, came at an extraordinarily high price and not through any process that would indicate the underlying vigor of the neoliberal free-trade On the contra…
From Military Keynesianism to Global-Neoliberal Militarism
In mid-summer of 2006 a Harris Opinion poll revealed that roughly 50 percent of the U.S. public believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) had been found in Iraq by U.S. forces and nearly two-thirds of those polled thought that the Iraqi regime had been collaborating with al-Qaeda forces prior to the Washington invasion in the spring of 2003. All this, of course, stood in stark contrast to the facts as they were then known and grudgingly ack…
Mexico since Nafta: Elite Delusions and the Reality of Decline
"The Debt Crisis as "Opportunity: Strategies to Revive U.S. Hegemony
As Latin America's worst economic crisis, which began in 1982, entered its seventh year, it seemed certain to deepen as the two giants of the region, Brazil and Mexico, tightened their embrace of austerity plans and free market solutions. Such solutions hinged-upon the successful implementation of new programs designed to expand Latin America's export capacity. But these programs, which had been so ruthlessly pursued by several Latin American gov…
From Structuralism to Neoliberal Depredation and Beyond: Economic Transformations and Labor Policies in Latin America, 1950-2016
From the 1930s until the early 1970s, national industrialization programs in Latin America were part of an effort to introduce social policies that broadened the national market, indirectly creating employment opportunities. Yet, Celso Furtado and other structuralists found the pattern of investment in Latin America predetermined by the unequal composition of aggregate demand, skewed toward the landholding-industrial-financial elite and newly eme…
The Political Economy of the Chilean State in the Neoliberal Era: 1973–2005
While the present-day state in Chile operates far beyond the narrowest constraints of the “neolib-eral ” state as strictly defined, it is nonetheless fatally confined by the ideological limits imposed through the neolib-eral vision of the state. Hence, Chile lacks a national development strategy and is now forced to operate within the parameters of a quasi-stagnationist structure, temporarily buoyed by 19th-century-style commodities booms. In a p…
Nafta's Lessons: From Economic Mythology to Current Realities
The Slow Death of the Washington Consensus on Latin America
In the late 1980s, the term Washington Consensus served to encapsulate the crystallization of a paradigmatic shift in economic policy making regarding Latin America. The intellectual impetus behind the consensus view clearly flowed from Washington, the locus of the U.S. Treasury, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Equally important, the consensus encompassed key Latin American business elites and functionaries of the state appar…
The Political Economy of Systemic U.S. Militarism
The U.S. industrial-military-congressional complex is made up of the interdependent dynamics of military contractor corporations, military forces, intelligence agencies, and the civilian national security state, which take form as strategy, political-economy factors, and international affairs shift
Pandemic Perspectives on Medicine and Militarism
The past, present and likely future of “pandemic perspectives” are here briefly examined: as embedded in the contemporary structure of speculative-based production, unsustainable path-dependent dynamics augur a difficult future of enhanced ecological ruptures under the current regime of accumulation. This has hastened pandemic moments, now including COVID-19 in 2020. Of particular note is the striking case of the wallowing US beset by multiple “m…
Hegemony, military power projection and US structural economic interests in the periphery
Positing the dawning of a ‘post-American World’, ‘declinists’ have taken little account of the USA’s surging interventionist tendencies and the new political economy of military power arising from the relentless pursuit of global militarism. The USA has long exercised its competitive advantage in military power to enhance its diplomatic clout, as well as to advantageously reposition its national industrial and financial base. The pace of such mar…
La política de México para la promoción de exportaciones: Un Nuevo Patrón De Acumulación
James M. Cypher, Hortensia Moreno, Salvador Mendiola, La política de México para la promoción de exportaciones: ¿un nuevo patrón de acumulación?, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 53, No. 3, El Tratado de Libre Comercio y la Frontera Norte (Jul. - Sep., 1991), pp. 81-110
"The Basic Economics of "Rearming America
Both President Reagan and his Secretary of Defense, Gaspar Weinberger, have proclaimed that raising military expenditures, while slashing social spending, is part of their policy of "rearming America." The objective of current policy is to push for a massive military buildup much like that realized in the early 1950s. In fact, if trust funds such as social security (which are largely self-financing) and interest on the debt (an "uncontrollable" i…
The Internationalization of Capital and The Transformation of Social Formations: A Critique of the Monthly Review School
The ahistorical, static and exchanged-based "development of un der development" theory of the conjuncture between the most developed nations and the historically underdeveloped regions fails to describe the origins and the nature of the disarticulated world economy and cannot account for the growing significance of some less developed countries in the world economy. A dynamic, historical and production-based approach to development theory which d…
"The Basic Economics of "Rearming America
Both President Reagan and his Secretary of Defense, Gaspar Weinberger, have proclaimed that raising military expenditures, while slashing social spending, is part of their policy of "rearming America." The objective of current policy is to push for a massive military buildup much like that realized in the early 1950s. In fact, if trust funds such as social security (which are largely self-financing) and interest on the debt (an "uncontrollable" i…
Marx and Historical Method
Review of Marx and History by D. Ross Gandy.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Militarism, Monetarism and Markets: Reagan's Response to the Structural Crisis
Wasting Away: From Instability into the Abyss
Review of The Waste of Nations: Dysfunction in the World Economy by Douglas Dowd.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
"The Debt Crisis as "Opportunity: Strategies to Revive U.S. Hegemony
As Latin America's worst economic crisis, which began in 1982, entered its seventh year, it seemed certain to deepen as the two giants of the region, Brazil and Mexico, tightened their embrace of austerity plans and free market solutions. Such solutions hinged-upon the successful implementation of new programs designed to expand Latin America's export capacity. But these programs, which had been so ruthlessly pursued by several Latin American gov…
La política de México para la promoción de exportaciones: Un Nuevo Patrón De Acumulación
James M. Cypher, Hortensia Moreno, Salvador Mendiola, La política de México para la promoción de exportaciones: ¿un nuevo patrón de acumulación?, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 53, No. 3, El Tratado de Libre Comercio y la Frontera Norte (Jul. - Sep., 1991), pp. 81-110
Other books in review
The Slow Death of the Washington Consensus on Latin America
In the late 1980s, the term Washington Consensus served to encapsulate the crystallization of a paradigmatic shift in economic policy making regarding Latin America. The intellectual impetus behind the consensus view clearly flowed from Washington, the locus of the U.S. Treasury, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Equally important, the consensus encompassed key Latin American business elites and functionaries of the state appar…
Nafta's Lessons: From Economic Mythology to Current Realities
Developing Disarticulation Within the Mexican Economy
Mexico's neoliberal export-led development model, imposed slowly and haltingly during President Miguel de la Madrid's administration (19821988) and with a vengeance during that of President Carlos Salinas (19881994), survived the devastating impact of the peso crisis of 1994-1995. Survival, however, came at an extraordinarily high price and not through any process that would indicate the underlying vigor of the neoliberal free-trade On the contra…
Conventional Economics: Scientific Pretensions, Ideological Dimensions
Capitalism and its Economics: A Critical History by Douglas DowdThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Political Economy of the Chilean State in the Neoliberal Era: 1973–2005
While the present-day state in Chile operates far beyond the narrowest constraints of the “neolib-eral ” state as strictly defined, it is nonetheless fatally confined by the ideological limits imposed through the neolib-eral vision of the state. Hence, Chile lacks a national development strategy and is now forced to operate within the parameters of a quasi-stagnationist structure, temporarily buoyed by 19th-century-style commodities booms. In a p…
The Strategic Role of Mexican Labor under Nafta: Critical Perspectives on Current Economic Integration
This article aims to reveal the precise meaning of Mexico's export platform by focusing on maquiladoras and the disguised maquila industry. In both sectors, imported components account for 75 to 90 percent of export value. As a result, benefits for the Mexican economy are basically restricted to wages, that is, the value of the labor incorporated into the exports. The authors argue that what is actually taking place is the disembodied exportation…
From Military Keynesianism to Global-Neoliberal Militarism
In mid-summer of 2006 a Harris Opinion poll revealed that roughly 50 percent of the U.S. public believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) had been found in Iraq by U.S. forces and nearly two-thirds of those polled thought that the Iraqi regime had been collaborating with al-Qaeda forces prior to the Washington invasion in the spring of 2003. All this, of course, stood in stark contrast to the facts as they were then known and grudgingly ack…
Mexico since Nafta: Elite Delusions and the Reality of Decline
Energy Privatized: The Ultimate Neoliberal Triumph
China and Latin America: Processes and Paradoxes
Hegemony, military power projection and US structural economic interests in the periphery
Positing the dawning of a ‘post-American World’, ‘declinists’ have taken little account of the USA’s surging interventionist tendencies and the new political economy of military power arising from the relentless pursuit of global militarism. The USA has long exercised its competitive advantage in military power to enhance its diplomatic clout, as well as to advantageously reposition its national industrial and financial base. The pace of such mar…
From Structuralism to Neoliberal Depredation and Beyond: Economic Transformations and Labor Policies in Latin America, 1950-2016
From the 1930s until the early 1970s, national industrialization programs in Latin America were part of an effort to introduce social policies that broadened the national market, indirectly creating employment opportunities. Yet, Celso Furtado and other structuralists found the pattern of investment in Latin America predetermined by the unequal composition of aggregate demand, skewed toward the landholding-industrial-financial elite and newly eme…
Pandemic Perspectives on Medicine and Militarism
The past, present and likely future of “pandemic perspectives” are here briefly examined: as embedded in the contemporary structure of speculative-based production, unsustainable path-dependent dynamics augur a difficult future of enhanced ecological ruptures under the current regime of accumulation. This has hastened pandemic moments, now including COVID-19 in 2020. Of particular note is the striking case of the wallowing US beset by multiple “m…
The Political Economy of Systemic U.S. Militarism
The U.S. industrial-military-congressional complex is made up of the interdependent dynamics of military contractor corporations, military forces, intelligence agencies, and the civilian national security state, which take form as strategy, political-economy factors, and international affairs shift
Downplaying U.S. Imperialism Despite its Ongoing Tenacity: The Latin American Dimension – A Comment
Latin America's Second Lost Decade
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