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How the world works : the story of human labor from prehistory to the modern day /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Pre-Class Economy; 2.1 Agriculture; 2.2 Reproduction; 2.3 Class Formation; 2.4 War, Patriarchy, Religion, and the Laws of Statistics; 3 Slave Economy; 3.1 Technology Complex; 3.2 Scheme of Reproduction; 3.3 Contradictions and Development; 3.4 Human Reproduction; 3.5 Commodities and Prices; 3.5.1 Neoclassical Prices; 3.5.2 The Classical Theory of Prices; 3.5.3 Evidence for the Theory; 3.6 Labor and Price under Slavery; 3.7 Money; 4 Peasant Economy; 4.1 Natural and Technical Conditions; 4.2 Forms of Surplus
- 4.3 Reproduction Structure4.4 Comparison with Capitalism; 4.5 The Smithian Critique of Feudalism; 5 Capitalist Economy; 5.1 The Capitalist Price Mechanism; 5.2 Recurrence Relations; 5.3 Capitalist Surplus; 5.4 Technology and Surplus; 5.4.1 Vital Energy; 5.4.2 Hero's Turbine Not Enough; 5.4.3 Practical Turbines; 5.4.4 Why Power was Essential; 5.4.5 An Iron Subjugation; 5.4.6 Automation or Self-Action; 5.4.7 Profit of First Use; 5.4.8 Wage Levels and Innovation; 5.4.9 Relative Exploitation; 5.4.10 Summary; 5.5 Capitalism and Population; 5.5.1 Population, Food, and Empire
- 5.5.2 Family and Population5.6 Domestic and Capitalist Economy; 5.6.1 Gender Pay Inequality; 5.6.2 Narrowing the Wage Gap; 5.6.3 Division of Domestic Labor; 5.6.4 Reducing Overall Housework; 5.6.5 Moving Tasks Out of the Domestic Economy; 5.7 Distribution of Wage Rates; 5.8 The Next Generation; 5.9 Long-Term Trend of Profitability; 5.10 Productive and Unproductive Activities; 5.10.1 Violence; 5.10.2 Vice; 5.10.3 Finance; 5.10.4 Modern Rents; 6 Socialist Economies; 6.1 What Does Socialism Mean?; 6.2 Power; 6.3 Reproduction and Division of Labor; 6.4 Determination of the Surplus Product
- 6.5 Socialist Economic Growth6.6 Why the Socialist Economies Still Used Money; 6.7 Socialism or State-Owned Capitalism; 6.8 Why the Law of Value Really Applies in Socialist Economies; 6.8.1 Intersectoral Relations; 6.8.2 Intrasectional Constraints; 6.9 Crisis of Socialism and Effects of Capitalist Restoration; 6.9.1 Long Term; 6.9.2 Medium Term; 6.9.3 Results; 7 Future Economics; 7.1 Technology Complex; 7.1.1 Materials; 7.1.2 Transport; 7.1.3 Information; 7.2 Population; 7.3 Politics; Appendices:; A Showing which Sectors are Productive; B Illusions Engendered by Averages
- B.1 Constraints on Reproduction SchemesB. 2 First Experiment; B.2.1 Results; B.3 Discussion; B.4 Second Experiment; B.4.1 Results; B.5 Further Discussion; B.6 Model and Reality; Bibliography; Notes; Index