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Replication and Extension of Shaikh (2016) Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises

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An open replication and historical extension of the empirical material in Anwar Shaikh's Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises (Oxford, 2016). 110 published series across the book's chapters, the book appendix, and the Sraffa-price follow-up studies — each chart traceable to a named source, a construction method, a provenance record and a full bibliographic citation.

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RED — Real Econ Data: web export v1.1.0

A public, download-ready projection of the RED data project. Nothing here is recomputed: every value is carried over unchanged from the constructed series.

What is in it

Slice Contents Published series Withheld
mwn/ Shaikh & Tonak, Measuring the Wealth of Nations (1994) 59 4
ccc/ Shaikh, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises (2016) 110 6
comparative/NSW/ Net social wage: the competing lines compared 117 —
comparative/MOHUN/ Mohun's recomputation of the categories 19 —
comparative/BEA_VINTAGE/ Source-vintage and classification dossiers 2 dossiers —

How to use it

  • WEB_MANIFEST.json (root) is the index: slices, counts, and everything withheld.
  • Each slice has its own WEB_MANIFEST.json, series_registry.json and data_dictionary.csv.
  • Each comparative section has a SECTION_MANIFEST.json listing every component that can be downloaded on its own.
  • data_dictionary.csv (root) is one row per component across all slices, each with a full source string; CITATION_REGISTRY.json holds the bibliographic records those rows point at.

Formats

Every series ships as CSV and Parquet. The net-social-wage comparison also ships as an Excel workbook, and each comparative section ships its study as PDF. The two book modules keep the layouts they were built in: mwn/ is wide (a metadata row, a component-ID row, then one row per year), ccc/ and the comparative layer are long (year, value, subseries_id, source_id, units).

What is withheld, and why

Nothing is dropped silently. Every withheld series is listed with its reason in WEB_MANIFEST.json and in its slice registry. Two kinds of exclusion occur: series triaged as not sensibly publishable (a matrix reduced to a scalar, a single-year survey snapshot, a series whose construction was found unfaithful), and one series withheld for licensing — its book-period source is commercially licensed and may not be redistributed.

Series that were removed from the project outright, because their claimed provenance could not be substantiated, are named under de_registered_series in WEB_MANIFEST.json. None of their values appear anywhere in this export.

Citations: 277 bibliographic records ship; 1 are excluded (incomplete records, and the licensed source above), each listed with a reason.

Version

v1.1.0 (2026-08-19): full regeneration from the corrected sources after the zero-fabrication purge and the RM1-RM6 remediation campaign. The v1.0.0 export had only been patched in place and its metadata layer still asserted pre-purge counts. The directory name is deliberately unchanged at red_Web_v1.0.0 so that existing dataset configurations and download paths keep resolving; the version of the export is carried in this field, not in the directory name.