
Back to Marx - Universitätsverlag Göttingen
... study of Marx’s notes and the literature he digested in the course of his construction of thought. Back to Marx is much more than just an extensive and thorough piece of philosophical research. Perhaps without any intention, it is as much a testimonial for the profound scholarly and philosophical ex ...
... study of Marx’s notes and the literature he digested in the course of his construction of thought. Back to Marx is much more than just an extensive and thorough piece of philosophical research. Perhaps without any intention, it is as much a testimonial for the profound scholarly and philosophical ex ...
A Critical Evaluation of Jules Dupuit`s Contributions to Economic
... the task of this research, with scholarly sleight of hand, to attempt to do so once more. Unfortunately, however, Dupuit has only received what one might call "superficial treatment," from one scholar to the next, with little reference to his original writings. Nor have all his writings been explore ...
... the task of this research, with scholarly sleight of hand, to attempt to do so once more. Unfortunately, however, Dupuit has only received what one might call "superficial treatment," from one scholar to the next, with little reference to his original writings. Nor have all his writings been explore ...
The Works of Marx and Engels in Ethnology
... George Lichtheim, The Origins of Socialism (1969), p. 59: "the positivist version of Marxism [...] by Engels and Kautsky". See also Lichtheim, Marxism (1964), p. 238 note: Socialism, Utopian and Scientific and other later writings of Engels "are a veritable compendium of the new positivist world-vie ...
... George Lichtheim, The Origins of Socialism (1969), p. 59: "the positivist version of Marxism [...] by Engels and Kautsky". See also Lichtheim, Marxism (1964), p. 238 note: Socialism, Utopian and Scientific and other later writings of Engels "are a veritable compendium of the new positivist world-vie ...
the value form
... b) The polarity of the two forms . On the other hand, these two forms are mutually excluding or opposed extremes, i .e . poles, of the same expression of value . They are always distributed amongst different commodities, which the expression of value relates to one another. For example, I cannot exp ...
... b) The polarity of the two forms . On the other hand, these two forms are mutually excluding or opposed extremes, i .e . poles, of the same expression of value . They are always distributed amongst different commodities, which the expression of value relates to one another. For example, I cannot exp ...
Karl Marx and the Classics
... a) The theoretical system of the Critique of Political Economy, which is mainly developed (albeit in a “philosophical” way of presentation, which makes its understanding not easy) in the first part of Volume 1 of Capital, in the 1859 Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, in the Grundris ...
... a) The theoretical system of the Critique of Political Economy, which is mainly developed (albeit in a “philosophical” way of presentation, which makes its understanding not easy) in the first part of Volume 1 of Capital, in the 1859 Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, in the Grundris ...
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from... of Economic Research Volume Title: Topics in the Economics of Aging
... would eventually make the system actuarially fair. Specifically, we examine the following three plans. 1. Switch to the Fully Funded System. This quickly increases the government budget surplus to the level of social security wealth before the arrival of the HAAP. 2 . Switch to the Actuarially Fair ...
... would eventually make the system actuarially fair. Specifically, we examine the following three plans. 1. Switch to the Fully Funded System. This quickly increases the government budget surplus to the level of social security wealth before the arrival of the HAAP. 2 . Switch to the Actuarially Fair ...
The concept of alienation, its origins and consequences in capitalism
... control over the conditions of employment, and (4) the lack of control over the immediate work process (Blauner, 1964: 16). Second, from the perspective of the individual’s sense of understanding the circumstance that he or she involves, alienation refers to the meaninglessness “when the individual ...
... control over the conditions of employment, and (4) the lack of control over the immediate work process (Blauner, 1964: 16). Second, from the perspective of the individual’s sense of understanding the circumstance that he or she involves, alienation refers to the meaninglessness “when the individual ...
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... attain and according to these ideas he shapes actual existence. “But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. At the end of every labour-process, we get a result that already existed i ...
... attain and according to these ideas he shapes actual existence. “But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. At the end of every labour-process, we get a result that already existed i ...
Marx is assumed to be an atheist. 1 Marxists are
... the atheist doctrine. The view that Marx was an atheist in his collaboration with Bauer in 1841, and is no longer an atheist by 1842-3, is of historical interest at best. But the argument that he views himself as neither an atheist, as a post-atheist thinker who has overcome the dialectic of theism- ...
... the atheist doctrine. The view that Marx was an atheist in his collaboration with Bauer in 1841, and is no longer an atheist by 1842-3, is of historical interest at best. But the argument that he views himself as neither an atheist, as a post-atheist thinker who has overcome the dialectic of theism- ...
Political Economy for Contemporary Capitalism
... ‘virtually every controversy within Marxist economics is at bottom a controversy concerning the nature and status of value theory.’6 This book develops an interpretation of value theory drawing upon a range of contributions, especially those of Ben Fine and John Weeks.7 This interpretation is orthod ...
... ‘virtually every controversy within Marxist economics is at bottom a controversy concerning the nature and status of value theory.’6 This book develops an interpretation of value theory drawing upon a range of contributions, especially those of Ben Fine and John Weeks.7 This interpretation is orthod ...
Marx`s Theory of the Money Commodity
... money. Already these early writings connect what will later be termed ‘abstract labour’ and money. Although in this tract Marx doesn’t yet speak of commodities, just of products, the analogy that he makes between religious reification and commodity fetishism is carried into his mature work, where Ma ...
... money. Already these early writings connect what will later be termed ‘abstract labour’ and money. Although in this tract Marx doesn’t yet speak of commodities, just of products, the analogy that he makes between religious reification and commodity fetishism is carried into his mature work, where Ma ...
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... in the midst of the questions of which the present says: that is the question. What, in progressive nations, is a practical break with modern state conditions, is, in Germany, where even those conditions do not yet exist, at first a critical break with the philosophical reflexion of those conditions ...
... in the midst of the questions of which the present says: that is the question. What, in progressive nations, is a practical break with modern state conditions, is, in Germany, where even those conditions do not yet exist, at first a critical break with the philosophical reflexion of those conditions ...
Fundamental Principles of Communist
... willed by the central administration will be suppressed with all the means at the disposal of the all-powerful state apparatus. It is certainly not necessary to give concrete examples of this - they are already familiar enough. In this way the Association of Free and Equal Producers proclaimed by Ma ...
... willed by the central administration will be suppressed with all the means at the disposal of the all-powerful state apparatus. It is certainly not necessary to give concrete examples of this - they are already familiar enough. In this way the Association of Free and Equal Producers proclaimed by Ma ...
Fiction without Fantasy: Capital Fetishism as Objective Forgetting
... should not be conceptualized as a “thing,” as something “tangible,” or as an “asset” that someone “has”4. Here I want to point out that the attempt to think about capital as tangible things and possessions mystifies its nature, which, in turn affirms capital fetishism in two major ways: first, the a ...
... should not be conceptualized as a “thing,” as something “tangible,” or as an “asset” that someone “has”4. Here I want to point out that the attempt to think about capital as tangible things and possessions mystifies its nature, which, in turn affirms capital fetishism in two major ways: first, the a ...
A Marx for the Left Today: Interview with Marcello
... forget the two parts of the equation. We always have to recall that Marx wanted to complete his Herculean work. Incompleteness and fragmentariness are characteristic of Marx’s oeuvre because the subject matter for the critical examination of his writings was, very often, so vast that it would have t ...
... forget the two parts of the equation. We always have to recall that Marx wanted to complete his Herculean work. Incompleteness and fragmentariness are characteristic of Marx’s oeuvre because the subject matter for the critical examination of his writings was, very often, so vast that it would have t ...
Here - Centro di Ricerche e Documentazione Piero Sraffa
... an increasing stock of living machineries (Marx, 1862−63, II, p. 477).8 In fact, if a rate of capital accumulation greater than the increase in population absorbed all the unemployed and underemployed labour, it would be necessary for a worker to raise, for instance, not two, but three or four or f ...
... an increasing stock of living machineries (Marx, 1862−63, II, p. 477).8 In fact, if a rate of capital accumulation greater than the increase in population absorbed all the unemployed and underemployed labour, it would be necessary for a worker to raise, for instance, not two, but three or four or f ...
Kirn-post_fordism_and_its discontents
... This book is a product of the theoretical labour that began in 2004 in Ljubljana, where the collective Workers’-Punks’ University (WPU) organised ‘Post-Fordism’, a yearlong series of lectures. This series resulted in an intense exchange of critical views on the topic that had largely disappeared fr ...
... This book is a product of the theoretical labour that began in 2004 in Ljubljana, where the collective Workers’-Punks’ University (WPU) organised ‘Post-Fordism’, a yearlong series of lectures. This series resulted in an intense exchange of critical views on the topic that had largely disappeared fr ...
(18/22) Economy: Definition, Kula and Potlatch.
... always asymmetrical: the former are higher in status. Also, as Kula valuables are ranked according to value and age, so are the relationships that are created through their exchange. Participants will often strive to obtain particularly valuable and renowned Kula objects whose owner's fame will spre ...
... always asymmetrical: the former are higher in status. Also, as Kula valuables are ranked according to value and age, so are the relationships that are created through their exchange. Participants will often strive to obtain particularly valuable and renowned Kula objects whose owner's fame will spre ...
Division of Labor, Economic Specialization and the Evolution of
... getting a disproportionately large share of the economic benefits produced by a society? Scholars have given three kinds of answers to this question (Durkheim 1933). Many authors deny the paradox, arguing either that people are deceived about their interests, for example, as a result of elite propag ...
... getting a disproportionately large share of the economic benefits produced by a society? Scholars have given three kinds of answers to this question (Durkheim 1933). Many authors deny the paradox, arguing either that people are deceived about their interests, for example, as a result of elite propag ...
Is Marx`s Theory of Value Still Relevant?
... These definitions of value and price are the basis for a wide-ranging critique of alleged inconsistencies in Marx, leading to the conclusion that the traditional Marxist project of determining value from embodied labour is flawed. Very briefly, first, the price system has two degrees of freedom, bec ...
... These definitions of value and price are the basis for a wide-ranging critique of alleged inconsistencies in Marx, leading to the conclusion that the traditional Marxist project of determining value from embodied labour is flawed. Very briefly, first, the price system has two degrees of freedom, bec ...
Behind Marx's Hidden Abode
... To address these questions, I shall begin by recalling what Marx took to be capitalism’s four core features. Thus, my approach will appear at first sight to be very orthodox, but I intend to ‘de-orthodoxize’ it by showing how these presuppose other features, which in fact constitute their background ...
... To address these questions, I shall begin by recalling what Marx took to be capitalism’s four core features. Thus, my approach will appear at first sight to be very orthodox, but I intend to ‘de-orthodoxize’ it by showing how these presuppose other features, which in fact constitute their background ...
A Selective Review of Recent Quantitative Empirical Research in
... have used, over the years, improved statistical techniques and better measurement for quantitative empirical work. This paper will review some of this literature, focusing specifically on quantitative empirical research on two particular issues, Marxist national accounts and the value controversy. T ...
... have used, over the years, improved statistical techniques and better measurement for quantitative empirical work. This paper will review some of this literature, focusing specifically on quantitative empirical research on two particular issues, Marxist national accounts and the value controversy. T ...
The Value of Money, the Value of Labour Power and the Net Product
... to consider how technologies are determined and why they change, to peer into the origin of the surplus, or to analyse the inner nature of class conflicts in capitalist society. However, these limitations make production in Sraffa’s system resemble a purely technical process, while capital can hardl ...
... to consider how technologies are determined and why they change, to peer into the origin of the surplus, or to analyse the inner nature of class conflicts in capitalist society. However, these limitations make production in Sraffa’s system resemble a purely technical process, while capital can hardl ...