Free to lose : an introduction to Marxist economic philosophy /

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John Roemer challenges the morality of an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production. Unless you start with a certain amount of wealth in such a society, you are only "free to lose." This book addresses crucial questions of political philosophy and normative...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roemer, John E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.
Temas:
Marxian economics > Mathematical models.
Marxian economics > Philosophy.
Économie marxiste > Modèles mathématiques.
Économie marxiste > Philosophie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism & Socialism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Marxian economics > Philosophy
Marxian economics > Mathematical models
Economie marxiste > modèles mathématiques.
Economie marxiste > Philosophie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • The Private Property System
  • Exploitation
  • Classes
  • Historical Materialism
  • Capitalism and Freedom
  • Method
  • A Preview
  • 2. The Origin of Exploitation
  • An Egalitarian Distribution of Capital
  • The Technical Definition of Exploitation
  • Unequal Ownership of the Capital Stock
  • The Causes of Exploitation
  • The Industrial Reserve Army
  • Concluding Comments
  • 3. Feudalism and Capitalism
  • A Brief Account of Feudalism
  • A Difference between Capitalism and Feudalism
  • 4. Exploitation and Profits
  • Embodied Labor and ExploitationPrices and the Profit Rate
  • The Relationship between Exploitation and Profits
  • An Economy with Many Produced Goods
  • The Social Division of Labor and the Perception of Exploitation
  • The Labor Theory of Value
  • 5. The Morality of Exploitation
  • Exploitation as the Source of Profits
  • The Initial Distribution
  • Justification of Unequal Distribution
  • 6. The Emergence of Class
  • A Definition of Equilibrium for a Corn Model with Assets
  • Class Formation
  • Class and Wealth
  • Class and Exploitation
  • The Significance of ClassExploitation Deemphasized
  • 7. Exploitation without a Labor Market
  • The Corn Economy with a Capital Market
  • Capital Market Island: The Five-Class Model
  • Capital Markets and Workersâ€? Cooperatives
  • Exploitation without Labor or Capital Markets
  • International Capitalism: Imperialism and Labor Migration
  • Domination versus Exploitation versus Property Relations
  • 8. Historical Materialism
  • Economic Structure, Productive Forces, and Superstructure
  • The Role of Class Struggle
  • The Logic of the Theory
  • Challenges from Economic HistoryEvolving Property Relations
  • 9. Evolving Forms of Exploitation
  • Historical Materialism and Private Property
  • The Failure of Surplus Value as a Measure of Exploitation
  • A Property-Relations Approach to Capitalist Exploitation
  • Feudal Exploitation
  • A Comparison of Revolutionary Transitions
  • Socialist Exploitation
  • Socially Necessary Exploitation
  • Syndicalization versus Socialization
  • 10. Public Ownership of the Means of Production
  • The Case for Public Ownership
  • Three Political Philosophies
  • The Story of Able and InfirmCharacterization of an Economic Constitution
  • Evaluation
  • 11. Epilogue
  • Appendix: Statements and Proofs of Theorems
  • Bibliographical Notes
  • References
  • Index

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