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Political economy. Vol. 1, General problems /
Political Economy, Volume I: General Problems provides a systematic treatise on political economy. This book discusses the state of economic science and the course of economic development in different parts of the world. Organized into seven chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the socia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Polaco |
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Oxford : Waszawa :
Pergamon Press ; PWN - Polish Scientific Pub.,
[1963]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; General Problems; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD TO THE FIRST POLISH EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION; CHAPTER ONE. THE SUBJECT MATTER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ELEMENTARY CONCEPTS; Human needs and means of satisfying them; Production, labour; Means of production and means of consumption; Social nature of production and distribution; Productive and non-productive labour (services); Economic relations; Production relations and social productive forces; Distribution relations and production relations.
- NOTE ON THE EXPRESSION ""POLITICAL ECONOMY"" AND RELATED TERMSCHAPTER TWO. MODES OF PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL FORMATIONS THE MATERIALIST INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY; Dependence of production relations on social productive forces; Ownership of the means of production as basis of production relations; Modes of production; Antagonistic and non-antagonistic modes of production; Law of necessary conformity between production relations and character of productive forces; Social consciousness; Concept of social formation. Base and superstructure.
- Law of necessary conformity between superstructure and economic baseConservative character of social relations and social consciousness; Dialectical processes in social development; Social development in antagonistic formations: class struggle and social revolutions; Classes and social strata; Historical materialism; NOTE ON SOME FORMULATIONS AND ON THE NAME OF THE MATERIALIST INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY
- CHAPTER THREE. ECONOMIC LAWS; General concept; Laws of causation, concomitance and functional relationship; Objective character of economic laws.
- Economic laws and laws of political economyStochastic (statistical) character of economic laws; Technical and balance laws of production; Laws of human behaviour and laws of interplay of human actions; Historical scope of economic laws; Scope of technical and balance laws of production; Laws specific to a given social formation; Laws resulting from the influence of superstructure; Mode of operation of social formation; Basic economic law of a social formation; Economic laws and dialectic social processes; ""Economic law of motion"" of a social formation.
- Spontaneity in operation of economic lawsSocialism overcomes spontaneity of economic laws; Economic laws under socialism; Objective character and spontaneity of economic laws; Dialectic processes in the socialist formation; Socialist formation opens new epoch in human history; Practical significance of knowledge of economic laws; CHAPTER FOUR. THE METHOD OF POLITICAL ECONOMY; Political economy as a theoretical discipline; Economic sciences, their subject matter and relations to each other; Applied economics, its branches; Political economy and economies of various social formations.