PROKLA-Redaktion: S(t)andOrt Berlin ..................................................XX

Susanne Heeg: »Vom Ende der Stadt als staatlicher Veranstaltung«

Reformulierung städtischer Politikformen am Beispiel Berlins ..............XX

Günter Seiler: Von Subventionsmentalitäten und

Metropolenträumen. Wirtschaftspolitik in Berlin ....................................XX

Karin Lenhardt: »Bubble-politics« in Berlin. Das Beispiel

Koordinierungsausschuß für innerstädtische Investitionen: eine

»black box« als Macht- und Entscheidungszentrale ................................XX

Jens Sambale, Dominik Veith: Berliner Wagenburgen:

Transformation peripherer Räume, Stigmatisierung sozialer

Gruppen und die Abwehr von Marginalisierung .....................................XX

Volker Eick: Neue Sicherheitsstrukturen im neuen Berlin.

'Warehousing' öffentlichen Raums und staatlicher Gewalt .....................XX

Uli Jähner: No Gangs - Gangs No. Jugend, Subkulturen

und Gewalt. Eine Berliner Skizze ............................................................XX

Eckhard Hein: Karl Marx, ein klassischer Ökonom? Zur Bedeutung

von Geld und Zins in der Marxschen Ökonomie und den

Implikationen für eine Theorie der Kapitalakkumulation .......................XX

Summaries ...............................................................................................XX

Zu den AutorInnen..................................................................................XX

Summaries PROKLA 110, Vol. 28 (1998), No. 1

Susanne Heeg: Reformulation of City-Politics in Berlin. The focus of this article are the shifts in the political forms and expressions of urban politics due to a neoliberal restructuring. It is argued that these trends consist in a transition from a distribution-oriented to an entrepreneurial, globally oriented city. This is connected to a reformulation of city images and a discourse about deregulation, privatization and market-led policies. Even the atypical case of Berlin can serve as an example of this transition.

Günter Seiler: On Subvention-Mentalities and Global-City-Dreams. The article analyses reasons of economic depression in Berlin focussing on subvention policies in former West-Berlin and problems of unification. It is shown that the economic policy of the Berlin city-government is unable to cop with the economic challenges. Some alternative concepts are sketched.

Karin Lenhardt: The »KOAI«. A »Black Box« as Decision-Maker. The urban development strategy of local politicians in Berlin after the »Wende« can be characterized as »bubble-politics« attracting international developers and investors with the vision of a prosperous global city. The paper stresses the key role of the KOAI, a secretly operating top-level administrative agency, in accelerating privatization processes in the eastern central district »Berlin-Mitte«. The orchestration of parallel public debates on the construction and/or reconstruction of Berlin-Mitte were nothing but a camouflage for the real decision-making processes happening behind closed doors.

Jens Sambale, Dominik Veith: Berliner Wagenburgen. This article focuses on the transformation of peripheral spaces in Berlin and the stigmatization of collective living arrangements within this process. The marginalization of the Berlin inner-city laagers (Wagenburgen) and the strategies and tactics they employ to confront this hegemonic project shed a light upon the complex set of relations between spaces, identities and resistance in the process of urbanization. A second topic is the formation of NIMBYism in Berlin in the process of suburbanization. The tensions arising between the inner-city and suburbanites articulate a new set of conflicts in Berlin politics. Regulating inner-city contradictions on the suburban fringe is history. The conflict concerning the (relocation of) laagers serves as just one example - but the most advanced for the time being.

Volker Eick: New Concepts of Security in »New Berlin«. In Berlin (and other big cities) private security agencies are growing rapidly. The expansion of their activity-fields, especially in public spaces, tends to transform the state monopol of legal power in a »private public partnership«. As a consequence public spaces get more and more under private control. Unwelcome groups like poor or homeless people are excluded from using these places.

Uli Jähner: No Gangs - Gangs No. During the last two decades growing social tensions had a large impact on youth culture. The spreaded notion of gangs shows increasing gang-fascination but in contrast to US american cities in Berlin youth violence is not embedded in the patterns of a criminal economy. The distribution of juvenile delinquents and juvenile violence in town is analysed and a new social pathology of violence, which is transgressing the rivaling subcultures, is sketched: bluring the difference between earnest and game.

Eckhard Hein: Marx, a Classical Economist? Money and Interest in Marxian Economics. In Marxian economic analysis, especially in the theories of accumulation and crisis, money and a monetary rate of interest are usually introduced as only modifying elements after the dominant tendencies have been derived from real analysis. Contrary to such an interpretation this paper starts from the observation that there is solid ground for monetary analysis in Marx’s economics especially if his theory of value is understood as a monetary theory of value. The role of credit and the relation between the interest rate and the rate of profit in Marx’s theory are discussed and compared to post-keynesian approaches. Finally, the implications of Marx’s monetary analysis for the theory of capital accumulation are analysed and it is shown that no general laws of accumulation can be derived when the independence of accumulation from savings in a credit-money-economy and the effects of an exogenously determined rate of interest are introduced.

Zu den AutorInnen

 Volker Eick ist Politologe und arbeitet in Berlin.

Susanne Heeg ist Soziologin und arbeitet am Lehrstuhl Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie der Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Postfach 776, 15207 Frankfurt/Oder.

Eckhard Hein ist Volkswirtschaftler und arbeitet am Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

Uli Jähner ist Soziologe und Politologe und lebt in Möckernstr. 76, 10965 Berlin.

Karin Lenhardt ist Politologin und lebt in Fronhoferstr. 3, 12165 Berlin.

Jens Sambale ist Politologe arbeitet an einem Forschungsprojekt zu Stadtentwicklung und Obdachlosigkeit an der FU Berlin/Berlin-Forschung, Gärtnerstr. 3, 12207 Berlin.

Günter Seiler ist Volkswirtschaftler und arbeitet bei der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umweltschutz in Berlin.

Dominik Veith ist Politologe arbeitet an einem Forschungsprojekt zu Stadtentwicklung und Obdachlosigkeit an der FU Berlin/Berlin-Forschung, Gärtnerstr. 3, 12207 Berlin.

Brigitte Young: Editorial. Globalisierung und Gender ............................XX

Brigitte Young: Genderregime und Staat

in der globalen Netzwerkökonomie .........................................................XX

Saskia Sassen: Überlegungen zu einer feministischen Analyse

der globalen Wirtschaft ............................................................................XX

Bang-Soon Yoon: Koreanische Frauen in der globalen Ökonomie.

Industrialisierung und Geschlechterpolitik in Südkorea ..........................XX

Ingeborg Wick: Frauenarbeit in Freien Exportzonen. Ein Überblick ......XX

Frauke Helwes: Migration, Prostitution, Frauenhandel. Von der

»Verschiebung« des Liebesaktes wechselseitiger Annerkennung ...........XX

Seiko Hanochi: Japan und die globale Sexindustrie ................................XX

Chalmers Johnson: Der Kalte Krieg und die Asienkrise .........................XX

Virtuelles Interview mit Robert Guttmann ..............................................XX

Klaus Schabacker: Die moderne ökonomische Theorie

und die Kapitaltheorie von Marx .............................................................XX

Summaries ...............................................................................................XX

Zu den AutorInnen..................................................................................XX

Summaries PROKLA 111, Vol. 28 (1998), No. 2

Brigitte Young: Gender Regimes and State in the Global Network Economy. The articles starts with a critique of the present feminist state theories and argues that the framework is no longer adequate to comprehend the gendered process of global restructuring. Relying on the insights of the French Regulation School, the author suggests that specific regimes of accumulation generate specific gender regimes and gender orders. While the dominant discourse around restructuring remains wedded to a largely gender-neutral paradigm, the paper points out that the rise of the global network economy has not only altered the fordist accumulation regime, it has also undermined and changed the gender relations that characterized fordism. The effects of these changes are not altogether negative for women; they are ambiguous and vary according to race and class.

Saskia Sassen: Toward a Feminist Analytics of the Global Economy. The article contributes to a feminist analytics that allows us to reconceptualize major features of today's global economy in a manner that captures strategic instantiations of gendering and formal and operational openings that make women visible. Two strategic research sites are specified: the unbundling of exclusive territoriality and the unbundling of sovereignty under the impact of globalization.

Bang-Soon Yoon: Korean Women in the Global Economy: Industrialization and Gender politics in South Korea. The paper analyzes the gender implications of South Korea’s industrialization in terms of women’s employment. Of particular interest is the relationship between women’s educational levels, marital status, and employment patterns as South Korea’s industrialization proceeds. Included in the analysis is the type of South Korea’s industrialization, the role of the state, the role of the local corporate culture, and the impact of the global economy.

Ingeborg Wick: Women's Employment in Export Processing Zones. The article gives a review of the existing export processing zones all over the world. The biggest part of the labor force of such zones are young women, who work under bad conditions. Wages are low and usually trade unions are suppressed.

Frauke Helwes: Migration, Prostitution, and Sex-Trade. The efficiency of the United Nations Convention for the Supression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is discussed within the context of the significance of exchanging women between men for the symbolic order. German politics to prostitution is regarded in a wider context of the gender contract in the state. The discourse of inner security, which dominates the public debate about trafficking in women as a form of female migration, invites the author to reflect the moral charakter of interests, frontiers and trans-alliances, of splittings and blindings.

Seiko Hanochi: Japan and the Global Sex-Trade. The paper analyzes the historical process, which led to the globalization of sex-trade in Japan. It is shown that there is a line from the traditional state regulated brothel system to the military system of sexual slavery in occupied countries (the so-called »comfort women«) in the thirties and forties and to the commercial sex-industry and trafficking in the eighties and nineties. With the changing economic and political role of Japan in this century the sex-trade of Japan also took new forms.

Chalmers Johnson: Cold War Economics Melt Asia. The Cold War relationships in Asia are an important reason for the present crisis. They caused serious overcapacities throughout the Asian region. Moreover, by devaluating their currency China and Japan had strongly improved their competitiveness against the »Asian Tigers«. When foreign capital was pulled out of these economies, it came to liquidity crunch. For overcoming the crisis not only financial measures but new relationships in the Pacific region are necessary.

Robert Guttman: Virtual Interview. The Asian crisis and the US interests in dealing with the crises are analyzed. The crisis itself is much more than only a financial crisis. It may indicate a new phase in the evolution of capitalism, the emergence of a more competitive capitalism organized on a global level.

Klaus Schabacker: Modern economic theory and Marxian capital theory. This article examines Marx’ contribution to the development of economic theory covering the notion of equilibrium, input-output analysis, aggregation, the theory of price determination and distribution. It argues that the so called transformation problem usually related to Marxian theory proves to be a special kind of the more general aggregation problem, which forms a component part of any theory of prices. As changes in the distribution of income generate a new system of prices thereby affecting aggregate values, the distribution of income and the level of economic activity are disconnected.

Zu den AutorInnen

Robert Guttmann lehrt Ökonomie an der Hosstra University, Economics Department, Hempstead, New York, 11557.

Chalmers Johnson ist Präsident des Japan Policy Research Institute.

Seiko Hanochi ist Politikwissenschaftlerin in Tokio.

Frauke Helwes ist Politologin und lebt in Greifswalderstr. 81, 10405 Berlin.

Saskia Sassen lehrt Stadtplanung an der Columbia University, Department of Urban Planning and School of International and Public Affairs, New York.

Klaus Schabacker ist Volkswirtschaftler und Soziologe und lebt in Wielandstr. 17, 12159 Berlin.

Ingeborg Wick arbeitet bei SÜDWIND Institut für Ökonomie und Ökumene, Siegburg.

Bang-Soon Yoon ist Politikwissenschaftlerin und arbeitet an der Central Washington University Ellensburg, Dept. of Political Science, WA. 98926-7578.

Brigitte Young lehrt am Fachbereich Politische Wissenschaft der FU Berlin, Ihnestr. 21, 14195 Berlin.

Verlag: WESTFÄLISCHES DAMPFBOOT