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Invisible Leviathan
In this updated and expanded edition of Invisible Leviathan, Murray E.G. Smith critically explores and makes significant contributions to the debate surrounding Karl Marx's `capitalist law of value' and its corollary, the law of the falling rate of profit. A powerful case is presented that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2018.
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| Colección: | Historical Materialism Book Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First (1994) Edition (Excerpts); Acknowledgements; Figures, Charts and Tables; Figures; Charts; Tables; Chapter 1. Invisible Leviathan: Marx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism; 1. Reflections on Wealth, Human Development and the 'Triumph' of Capitalism; 2. The Triple Crisis of the Twenty-First Century; 3. The Necessity of Marx's Value Theory in the Twilight of Capitalism; Chapter 2. The Value Abstraction and the Dialectic of Social Development
- 1. The Value Abstraction in Pre-capitalist History: Cognitive Faculties as Forces of Production2. Cohen, Sayer and Söhn-Rethel on Historical Materialism; 3. Value Relations and Social Progress; 4. An Unresolved Issue; Chapter 3. Science, Ideology and 'Economic Value'; 1. The Labour Theory of Value in Classical Political Economy; 2. The Economics Profession Repudiates the Labour Theory of Value; 3. Labour Value: From 'Ricardian Socialism' to Marx; 4. Marginalism versus Marx; 5. Science, Ideology and the Theory of Value; Chapter 4. Marx's Capital and the Early Critiques
- 1. Elements of Marx's Theory of Value2. Value, Capital, and Exploitation; 3. Value, Capitalist Competition, and the General Rate of Profit; 4. Traditional Criticisms and Orthodox Responses; 5. The Controversy Surrounding the 'Transformation Problem'; Chapter 5. Currents within the Value Controversy; 1. The Second Phase of the Value Controversy; 2. The Neo-Ricardian Challenge; 3. Neo-orthodoxy and the Rediscovery of the Value-Form; 4. Fundamentalist Value Theory; 5. Trends in the Value Controversy since the 1990s; Chapter 6. An Assessment of the Value Controversy
- 1. Preliminary Thoughts on the Road Just Travelled2. Some Philosophical and Methodological Considerations; 3. Theoretical Considerations; 4. Value Theory and Programme; Chapter 7. Value, Economy and Crisis; 1. Capitalist Development and Its Cyclical Crises; 2. The Falling Rate of Profit and the Dimensions of Capitalist Crisis; 3. Tendencies Counteracting the Fall in the Rate of Profit; 4. Theoretical Arguments Surrounding the Law of the Falling Rate of Profit; 5. Dimensions of Capitalist Crisis; 6. Crises of Valorisation and Crises of Realisation
- 7. The Historical-Structural Crisis of CapitalismChapter 8. Socially Necessary Unproductive Labour, Valorisation and Crisis; 1. Marx and the Problem of Unproductive Labour; 2. SNUL and Marx's Value Categories; 3. Constant Capital and Capital Fetishism; 4. Theoretical Advantages of Treating SNUL as Constant Capital; Chapter 9. Imperialism, Unequal Development and the Law of Value; 1. Unequal Capitalist Development on a World Scale; 2. Emmanuel's Theory of Unequal Exchange; 3. Critiques of Emmanuel; 4. Shaikh's Critique of Emmanuel and the Ricardian Theory of Trade