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Persistent Inequalities.
Economists generally assume that wage differentials among similar workers will only endure when competition in the capital and/or labor market is restricted. In contrast, Howard Botwinick uses a classical Marxist analysis of real capitalist competition to show that substantial patterns of wage dispa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2017.
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| Colección: | Historical Materialism Book Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; New Preface (2017 Edition); Preface and Acknowledgements (1993 Edition); List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1. Introduction; Breaking the Impasse; Toward a Theoretical Alternative; Implications for the Analysis of Discrimination; On Heterogeneous Labour; Comparing Our Results to Orthodox and Radical Economics; Solving Some Anomalies; Outline of the Argument; Chapter 2. Continuing Attempts to Square the Circle (Or, Competitive Theory Confronts Differential Wage Rates); Early Neoclassical Wage Theory
- The Theory of Perfect Competition: Abstraction as IdealisationThe Inevitable Schism between Theory and Practice; The Theory of Imperfect Competition
- Godsend or Albatross?; Postwar Institutionalists: An Initial Attempt at Alternative Theory; The Ascent of Human Capital Theory; The Real World Strikes Back; The New Institutionalists: The Dual Economy and Dual Labour Markets; Labour Market Segmentation and Monopoly Capital; The Initial Response to Segmentation Theory; The Second Wave of Segmentation Arguments; The Continuing Search for a Radical Alternative
- Efficiency Wage Theory: The Latest Attempt to Square the CircleChapter 3. Capitalist Accumulation and the Aggregate Labour Market; Marx versus Neoclassical Economics; The Special Commodity Labour Power; Primitive Accumulation and the 'Doubly Free' Labourer; The Unique Logic of Labour Supply; Capitalist Accumulation and the Reserve Army of Labour; Marx's Reserve Army within the Modern Period; On the Necessity of Worker Resistance; Capitalist Accumulation and the Limits to Rising Wage Rates; Empirical Evidence for Limits to Rising Wage Rates
- Chapter 4. Wage Differentials and the Aggregate Labour MarketCapitalism's Active and Reserve Armies: Differentiation and 'Segmentation' in Their Most Basic Forms; The Role of Workers in the Segmentation Process; A Dynamic Analysis of Labour Mobility and Wage Differentiation Under Conditions of Permanent Underemployment; Uneven Technical Change, Competition, and the Reserve Army: A Brief Glimpse of Marx's Theory of Wage Differentials; On the Incompleteness of Marx's Work; Chapter 5. Capitalist Competition and Differential Profit Rates; Competition within Industries
- Competition between IndustriesMarx's Concept of Regulating Capitals; Empirical Evidence of Monopoly; Chapter Summary; Appendix to Chapter 5; Chapter 6. Capitalist Competition and Differential Wage Rates (I): The Analysis of Regulating Capitals; Overview of the Dynamic Adjustment to Changing Wage Rates; Deriving Determinate Limits to Rising Wage Rates; Limit One: The Immediate Profitability of Regulating Capitals; Limit Two: The Unit Costs of Subdominant Capitals; Further Implications for Inter- and Intraindustry Wage Patterns