Economics And Marxism

Author : Hadas Thier
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642592184

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A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier Pdf

A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. “Thier’s urgently needed book strips away jargon to make Marx’s essential work accessible to today’s diverse mass movements.” —Sarah Leonard, contributing editor to The Nation “A great book for proletarian chain-breaking.” —Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley “Thier unpacks the mystery of capitalist inequality with lucid and accessible prose . . . . We will need books like A People’s Guide to help us make sense of the root causes of the financial crises that shape so many of our struggles today.” —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership “Ranging from exploitation at work to the operations of modern finance, this book takes the reader through a fine-tuned introduction to Marx’s analysis of the modern economy . . . . Thier combines theoretical explanation with contemporary examples to illuminate the inner workings of capitalism . . . . Reminds us of the urgent need for alternatives to a crisis-ridden system.” —David McNally, author of Blood and Money

Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101566992

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Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones Pdf

A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.

Author : Ernesto Screpanti
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783747825

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Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation by Ernesto Screpanti Pdf

In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis. Screpanti’s arguments are delivered with perspicuity and verve: this is a book that aims to spark a debate. He exposes ambiguities present in Marx’s exposition of his own theory, especially when dealing with the employment contract and the notions of ‘abstract labor’ and ‘labor value’, and he argues that these ambiguities have given rise to misunderstandings in previous analyses of Marx’s theory of exploitation. Screpanti’s own interpretation is a meticulously argued counterpoint to these traditional interpretations. Labour and Value is a significant contribution to the theory of economics, particularly Marxist economics. It will also be of great interest to scholars in other disciplines including sociology, political science, and moral and political philosophy. Screpanti’s clear and engaging writing style will attract the interested general reader as well as the academic theorist.

Author : Karl Kühne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015005337632

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Economics and Marxism by Karl Kühne Pdf

Author : Theodore A. Burczak,Robert F. Garnett Jr.,Richard McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351798075

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Knowledge, Class, and Economics by Theodore A. Burczak,Robert F. Garnett Jr.,Richard McIntyre Pdf

Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume’s 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the Amherst School—the interdisciplinary community of scholars that has enriched and extended, while never ceasing to interrogate and recast, the anti-economistic Marxism first formulated in the mid-1970s by Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, and their economics Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The title captures the defining ideas of the Amherst School: an open-system framework that presupposes the complexity and contingency of social-historical events and the parallel "overdetermination" of the relationship between subjects and objects of inquiry, along with a novel conception of class as a process of performing, appropriating, and distributing surplus labor. In a collection of 30 original essays, chapters confront readers with the core concepts of overdetermination and class in the context of economic theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, economic geography, economic anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory/studies. Though Resnick and Wolff’s writings serve as a focal point for this collection, their works are ultimately decentered—contested, historicized, reformulated. The topics explored will be of interest to proponents and critics of the post-structuralist/postmodern turn in Marxian theory and to students of economics as social theory across the disciplines (economics, geography, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, among others).

Author : Paul Burkett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789047408567

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Marxism and Ecological Economics by Paul Burkett Pdf

This book initiates a dialogue between Marxism and ecological economics. It shows how Marxism can help ecological economics fulfill its commitments to methodological pluralism, inter-disciplinarity, and openness to new visions of structural economic change that confront the current biospheric crisis.

Author : Ludo Cuyvers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000600421

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Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics by Ludo Cuyvers Pdf

Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson, both iconic Cambridge economists, were highly influenced by the economic theory of Karl Marx, and integrated important elements of Marx’s economic system into their theories. This book argues, based on published and unpublished documents, that the work of Sraffa and Robinson can in fact be considered as essentially post-Keynesian neo-Marxist. The first part of the book reviews the intellectual development of several key thinkers to this neo-Marxist current in economic thought: Kalecki, Steindl, Baran and Sweezy. Part One and Part Two separately examine Robinson and Sraffa’s works and questions how they fit into this specific neo-Marxist current, either building on it (in Robinson’s case), or following another direction (in Sraffa’s case). Part Three observes Robinson’s theory of economic growth and its relationship to the views of Marx and Kalecki. Overall, Cuyvers demonstrates how their thought processes share characteristics with neo-Marxist key ideological ideas, such as stating or implying the labour theory of value as either redundant or wrong, emphasising the role of class struggle in the distribution of income and rejecting Marx’s falling rate of profits. Following on from ideas briefly introduced in Cuyvers’s Economic Ideas of Marx’s Capital (2017), this book will particularly appeal to readers interested in the history of economic thought, the work of Sraffa, Robinson and Marx, post-Keynesian economics and neo-Marxism.

Author : David M. Brennan,David Kristjanson-Gural,Catherine P. Mulder,Erik K. Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317683711

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Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics by David M. Brennan,David Kristjanson-Gural,Catherine P. Mulder,Erik K. Olsen Pdf

Most developed economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and an inability to provide stability or opportunity for many of their citizens. Mainstream economics has proven to be of little assistance in addressing these systemic failures, and this has led both scholars and students to seek alternatives. One such alternative is provided by Marxian economics. In recent decades the field has seen tremendous theoretical development and Marxian perspectives have begun to appear in public discourse in unprecedented ways. This handbook contains thirty-seven original essays from a wide range of leading international scholars, recognized for their expertise in different areas of Marxian economics. Its scope is broad, ranging from contributions on familiar Marxist concepts such as value theory, the labor process, accumulation, crisis and socialism, to others not always associated with the Marxian canon, like feminism, ecology, international migration and epistemology. This breadth of coverage reflects the development of Marxian economic and social theory, and encompasses both the history and the frontiers of current scholarship. This handbook provides an extensive statement of the current shape and future direction of Marxian economics. The Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics is an invaluable resource for students, researchers and policy makers seeking guidance in this field. It is designed to serve both as a reference work and as a supplementary text for classroom use, with applications for courses in economics, sociology, political science, management, anthropology, development studies, philosophy and history.

Author : Ernest Mandel
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Marxian economics
ISBN : 1876646306

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An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory by Ernest Mandel Pdf

Author : Benedetto Croce
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Dialectical materialism
ISBN : 9781465614384

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Historical Materialism and the Economics of Karl Marx by Benedetto Croce Pdf

Historical materialism is what is called a fashionable subject. The theory came into being fifty years ago, and for a time remained obscure and limited; but during the last six or seven years it has rapidly attained great fame and an extensive literature, which is daily increasing, has grown up around it. It is not my intention to write once again the account, already given many times, of the origin of this doctrine; nor to restate and criticise the now well-known passages in which Marx and Engels asserted the theory, nor the different views of its opponents, its supporters, its exponents, and its correctors and corruptors. My object is merely to submit to my colleagues some few remarks concerning the doctrine, taking it in the form in which it appears in a recent book by Professor Antonio Labriola, of the University of Rome. For many reasons, it does not come within my province to praise Labriola's book. But I cannot help saying as a needful explanation, that it appears to me to be the fullest and most adequate treatment of the question. The book is free from pedantry and learned tattle, whilst it shows in every line signs of the author's complete knowledge of all that has been written on the subject: a book, in short, which saves the annoyance of controversy with erroneous and exaggerated opinions, which in it appear as superseded. It has a grand opportunity in Italy, where the materialistic theory of history is known almost solely in the spurious form bestowed on it by an ingenious professor of economics, who even pretends to be its inventor.

Author : Giulio Palermo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317411857

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Economics and Power by Giulio Palermo Pdf

In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequence of the combination of methodological individualism and the assumption of competition as a natural and everlasting coordinating mechanism, operating without any sort of coercion. This methodology, however, is not adequate to analyze the forms of social coercion that characterize capitalism. Economics and Power criticizes the main theories of power developed in economic literature, analyzing ultraliberal contractualism to radical political economics, and ultimately suggesting a Marxist conception of power and coercion in capitalism. Palermo’s ontological argument is rooted in the philosophy of ‘critical realism’.This unique volume presents his main finding as being that the essential coercive mechanism of capitalism is competition. Capitalist power is not caused by a lack of competition, but by the central role it plays in this mode of production. Following this, the chapters reconstruct a Marxian conception of power where it is analyzed as a social relation and argues that perfect competition does in fact exist under the disguise of capitalist power. This book criticizes the construct of power and the underlying ideas surrounding perfect competition. This book is of interest to those who study political economy, as well as economic theory and philosophy.

Author : Ernest Mandel
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784782337

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The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx by Ernest Mandel Pdf

A clear and compact guide to Marx’s road to Das Kapital Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx’s economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of crystalline chapters, he provides an overview of subjects central to Marxist economic theory. Mandel focuses on Marx’s concept of alienation, which gained much currency among Marxists in the twentieth century, and traces the development of debates surrounding the labour theory of value, and Marx’s writings on communism and “crisis.” These discussions remain pertinent today, and these texts vital to all those who wish to interpret and to change the world.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547176015

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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" by Karl Marx. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Alan Freeman,Guglielmo Carchedi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018468624

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Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics by Alan Freeman,Guglielmo Carchedi Pdf

A equilibrium-free political economy based on the labour theory of value is developed in this volume which brings together authors who have worked in this framework for the last ten years.

Author : Michael Charles Howard,John Edward King
Publisher : Harmondsworth [etc.] : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036610892

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The Economics of Marx by Michael Charles Howard,John Edward King Pdf