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THIS STUDY USES THE DATA OF PIVEN AND CLOWARD, FROM WHICH THEY DREW THEIR THEORY ON MASS INSURGENCY AND ITS EFFECTS ON U.S. GOVERNMENT, TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THERE IS A POSITIVE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SOCIAL DISORDERS AND WELFARE CASELOAD INCREASES. FINDING NO EMPIRICAL SUPPORT FOR THE HYPOTHESES, A RIVAL EXPLANATION IS OFFERED.

Robert Albritton brings to life the classic concepts in Marx's economic thought. As well as examining these essential points of Marxist theory, he shows that they offer great potential for further study. Deeply critical of the way economics is taught and studied today, this is a textbook that will appeal to anyone who wants a forward-thinking approach to the discipline that's free from the constraints of neo-classical orthodoxy. Taking up key aspects of Marx's work, including surplus value theory, dialectical reasoning and the commodity form, Albritton highlights their relevance in the modern world -- and explains why mainstream economics has been so blind to their revolutionary potential. Written with style and clarity, it is perfect for economics undergraduates

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- General introduction -- A framework for understanding capitalism -- Part II: Understanding -- 2. The Management of Agriculture and Food by Capital's Deep Structures -- Capital's profit orientation -- Capital, time and speed -- Capital, space and homogenization -- Capital and workers -- Capital and underconsumption -- Capital, oligopoly and globalization -- Capital and subjectivity -- Conclusions -- 3. The Phase of Consumerism and the US Roots of the Current Agriculture and Food Regimes -- Consumerism's profit orientation: petroleum, cars, suburbs and television -- Consumerism, time, and speed: unchecked toxicity and life on the run -- Consumerism, space and homogenization, suburbanization and monocultures -- Consumerism and workers: hiding the health costs of hazardous working conditions and low wages -- Consumerism and underconsumption: new forms of debt expansion and advertising -- Consumerism, oligopoly and globalization: a command economy of corporations -- Consumerism and subjectivity: the politics of fear -- Conclusions -- Part III: The Historical Analysis of the US-Centred Global Food Regime -- 4. The Food Regime and Consumer's Health -- Capitalist agriculture -- The case of tobacco -- The global food regime: a story of irrationality -- The obesity "epidemic -- Sugar -- Meatification and fat consumption -- Hunger and starvation -- Salt -- Soy -- Pesticides -- Food additives -- Microorganisms -- Loss of nutrients -- Genetically modified organisms -- Supermarkets -- Fast food chains -- Conclusions -- 5. The Health of Agriculture and Food Workers -- Workers in the US agricultural and food systems -- Workers in the agricultural and food systems of developing countries -- Conclusions -- 6. Agriculture, Food Provisioning and the Environment -- Peak oil and biofuels.

As neo-liberal globalization pushes us further toward global inequality, poverty, war and militarism diverse movements are arising to voice their concerns. This book looks at these debates.

This article, part of a symposium on Christopher A. Arthur's The New Dialectic and Marx's 'Capital', agrees with Arthur's conception of the basic nature of dialectical reasoning, but diverges from Arthur views on the ways in which Marx's theory of capital's inner logic is & is not dialectical. The article starts with a brief discussion of Arthur's conception of dialectics, & then argues that Arthur's account of capital is problematic on two fronts -- specifically, regarding the opposition between value & use-value & between capital & labor. It is argued that a dialectical approach based on the work of Japanese political economists Uno & Sekine can deal with these oppositions in a much more effective way than does Arthur, a way that conceives of Marx's theory of capital as a much more coherent dialectic, while, at the same time, presenting a potentially much more powerful way of theorizing class struggle. 28 References. T. K. Brown