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Intro -- Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Note on the Citing of Capital, Volume I -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Atrophy of Philosophy -- 1 The Problem of Hegel -- 1 Hegel and Capital, Volume i, 1st German Edition -- 2 2nd German and French Editions of Volume i -- 3 Sieber on Marx and Criticizing His Use of Hegel -- Marx's Reaction -- 4 After Marx's 1883 Death, Sieber's Decline and Plekhanov's Influence -- 5 Lenin's Evolution toward Dialectical Materialism -- 6 Conclusion Moving Forward -- Part 2: Key Elements of Political Economy -- 2 Marx's Evolution and Revolution with the Concept of Value: Abstract Labor and Labor Power -- 1 Poverty of Philosophy (1847) Economic Concepts Historically Conditioned -- 2 Contribution (1859) Abstract Labor as the Substance of Value -- 3 Capital, Volume I (1867) Labor Power -- 4 Other Additions in Volume I -- 5 Marx's Retrospective on Value -- 3 Not Engels, but Marx's Final Edition of Capital, Volume I (1882) -- 1 Marx's Parts i-vi -- 2 The Structural Divisions Desired by Marx, Contrasted to Engels -- 3 Marx's Parts vii and viii (1882) Compared with Engels' 3rd German Edition (1883) -- 4 Text: "The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation", Sections 1-4, as Desired by Marx (1882) -- 1 Section 1 the Increased Demand for Labour-Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same -- 2 Section 2 Changes in the Composition of Capital with the Progress of Accumulation and Relative Diminution of that Part of Capital that is Exchanged against Labor Power -- 3 Section 3 Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus-Population or Industrial Reserve Army -- 4 Section 4 Different Forms of the Relative Surplus-Population. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation.

This volume analyzes two decisive factors that have become embedded in the world spread of capitalism, a shift toward dominance of the financial sector, now entailing massive greed and calling into question whether the rules of capitalism have been broken, and of global wage differentials so deep that recognition of a labor aristocracy cannot be avoided. These chapters are supplemented by two additional showing that gold still regulates the dollars value, and that unpaid reproductive labor of women adversely affects labor productivity. Analysis of finance engenders discussion of its place in value theory, posed around the rate of profit, and is more complex than often presented. Furthermore, the varying rates of profit at the firm level, not just for financials, are distributed in a manner exhibiting more frequent extreme cases than a Bell-curve would suggest. Implications for incorporation of randomization into political economy are drawn. The final chapters provide evidence that Marx was more correct than Kalecki and Minsky when arguing the lead of profits for investment, and that product innovations can mitigate problems of over-production resulting from process innovations.

This volume analyzes two decisive factors that have become embedded in the world spread of capitalism, a shift toward dominance of the financial sector, now entailing massive greed and calling into question whether the rules of capitalism have been broken, and of global wage differentials so deep that recognition of a labor aristocracy cannot be avoided. These chapters are supplemented by two additional showing that gold still regulates the dollars value, and that unpaid reproductive labor of women adversely affects labor productivity. Analysis of finance engenders discussion of its place in value theory, posed around the rate of profit, and is more complex than often presented. Furthermore, the varying rates of profit at the firm level, not just for financials, are distributed in a manner exhibiting more frequent extreme cases than a Bell-curve would suggest. Implications for incorporation of randomization into political economy are drawn. The final chapters provide evidence that Marx was more correct than Kalecki and Minsky when arguing the lead of profits for investment, and that product innovations can mitigate problems of over-production resulting from process innovations.

This volume focuses on nationality's efficacy in much of world affairs, and on the background and current issues surrounding global crisis. As one of the most famous Marxist revolutionaries, Rosa Luxemburg vigorously promoted her own conceptions, often opposing Lenin, her contemporary. In this volume, Narihiko Ito offers a much needed, extensive analysis of her position. This is followed by a critique of the current Iranian conjuncture, offered by Farhang Morady. The development of crises in capitalism is addressed both directly and indirectly within the volume. Alan Freeman argues the need to extricate French positivism from the Marxism that developed after Marx whilstRadhika Desai highlights renewed consideration of the major role of consumption demand in Marxist theory and considers implications for the current crisis. The volume continues with Karen Petersens analysis of the post-WWII developments of major currencies and Fabien Tarrit considers capitalism as an inherently unstable system, requiring a focus on its rate of profit. The final chapter by Jorgen Sandemose presents a careful argument offering notions of the origins of Marxs Capital culminating in an engaging volume that addresses The National Question and the Question of Crisis.

This volume focuses on nationality's efficacy in much of world affairs, and on the background and current issues surrounding global crisis. As one of the most famous Marxist revolutionaries, Rosa Luxemburg vigorously promoted her own conceptions, often opposing Lenin, her contemporary. In this volume, Narihiko Ito offers a much needed, extensive analysis of her position. This is followed by a critique of the current Iranian conjuncture, offered by Farhang Morady. The development of crises in capitalism is addressed both directly and indirectly within the volume. Alan Freeman argues the need to extricate French positivism from the Marxism that developed after Marx whilstRadhika Desai highlights renewed consideration of the major role of consumption demand in Marxist theory and considers implications for the current crisis. The volume continues with Karen Petersens analysis of the post-WWII developments of major currencies and Fabien Tarrit considers capitalism as an inherently unstable system, requiring a focus on its rate of profit. The final chapter by Jorgen Sandemose presents a careful argument offering notions of the origins of Marxs Capital culminating in an engaging volume that addresses The National Question and the Question of Crisis.

Agrarian capitalism and poor relief in England, c.1500-1790 : rethinking the origins of the welfare state / Larry Patriquin -- Taxation and primitive accumulation : the case of colonial Africa / Mathew Forstater -- The state-capital relationship and the significance of incorporating the role of labor / Eshrak Zaky -- Political institutions and economic imperatives : bringing agency back in / Martijn Konings -- Quantifying abstract labor : aliquot part reasoning in Marxs value theory / Bruce Roberts -- Exchange, demand and the market-price of production : reconciling traditional and monetary approaches to value and price / David Kristjanson-Gural -- Testing Okishios criterion of technical choice / Cheol-Soo Park -- Testing for the Marxian-classical criterion of technical choice / G(c)Øerard Dum(c)Øenil, Dominique L(c)Øevy -- Reflections on economic democracy / W.Paul Cockshott, Allin Cottrell -- On the production of knowledge / Guglielmo Carchedi. - The leading part of this volume focuses on the role of the state in capitalist society, beginning by showing the welfare state as an historical product of the class structure of English agrarian capitalism. The second chapter indicates how, in European colonies such as in Africa, taxation was an important means of forcing indigenous populations to work as wage-laborers or produce cash crops, and relating the process to Marx's 'primitive accumulation of capital'. The following two chapters move to the contemporary period, the first suggesting that change in the relationship between the nation-state and capital is rooted in the contradictory needs of labor versus capital, while the next chapter proposes analyzing capitalist institutions by relying, more than hitherto, on an hermeneutic understanding of institutions. The following part addresses price and technical choice in capitalism. The first two chapters address price, the initial one suggesting its formation to be the same as the formation of abstract labor, while the second identifying a new category of exchange value and using it to explain how changes in demand act to redistribute value across industries. The following two chapters consider, empirically, the relation between technical choice and profit rates. The third part addresses economic democracy within socialism, defending both direct democracy and economic calculation in terms of labor time. The concluding part develops an understanding of the class determination of knowledge, including explaining why the science and techniques developed in one class society can be used in others

This volume of Research in Political Economy sets out to explore three key themes pertinent to the critique of political economy: (1) the disciplinary role of capital under neoliberalism, (2) accumulation and finance, and (3) the life and theories of Rosa Luxemburg. While the sections focus on different aspects of political economy, taken as a whole, they complement each other in striking a balance between concrete and abstract Marxist analyses. The essays in the first section critically examines the more concrete aspects of political economy, such as the changing role of the World Bank vis-a-vis the Third World, the Millennium Challenge Account - a newly forged 'official development compact' put forward by the Bush II administration, the disciplinary strategies tied to labour restructuring in Argentina, the political economy of financial fragility on a global scale, and a cultural critique of the Documenta11. The essays in the second section explore analytically dimensions of Marx's theory of the monetary circuit, Rudolf Hilferding's banking theory, Henryk Grossman's Law of Accumulation, and the evidence surrounding supposed value-price correlations. The articles in the third section of the volume are devoted to the person and theoretical contribution of Rosa Luxemburg, the famous Polish-German theoretician and revolutionary leader.