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Book SynopsisMost developed economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and an inability to provide stability or opportunity for many of their citizens. Mainstream economics has proven to be of little assistance in addressing these systemic failures, and this has led both scholars and students to seek alternatives. One such alternative is provided by Marxian economics. In recent decades the field has seen tremendous theoretical development and Marxian perspectives have begun to appear in public discourse in unprecedented ways.
This handbook contains thirty-seven original essays from a wide range of leading international scholars, recognized for their expertise in different areas of Marxian economics. Its scope is broad, ranging from contributions on familiar Marxist concepts such as value theory, the labor process, accumulation, crisis and socialism, to others not always associated with the Marxian canon, like feminism, ecology, international migration and epistemology. T
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"The fading from memory of the Soviet Union has allowed Marxism to be comprehended in increasing clarity these days, consigning to the dustbin of Cold War history many of the silly notions people held of it in those distorted times. Nor has interest in Marxism waned since those times either - if anything, especially since the Great Recession began in 2007, interest and concern with the themes and ideas of Marxism and especially Marxist economics has increased. It is time then for a review and updating of the great insights and theories of that tradition in light of recent history. This volume is a restatement of the main ideas of today’s Marxist economics as they have developed up to the present moment." — Eric A. Schutz, Professor Emeritus, Economics, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, USA
"As a scholar I found myself compelled by the deep, exhaustive treatments of Marxian concepts; the accounts are rich, well argued, and generally quite illuminating. As a teacher, I found some of the more introductory and definitional contributions of particular utility in teaching the foundations of Marxian theory...Generally speaking, however, the book is a useful contribution to the field of Marxian economics, many of its chapters warranting consistent re-reading. It is a book that I have already used in my work and one that I am likely to continue using for the foreseeable future." — Benjamin J Anderson, is a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part One: Dialectics and Methodology
1 Dialectics and Overdetermination
2 Epistemology
3 Marxian Class Analysis
Part Two: Analytical and Theoretical Topics
4 Exploitation
5 Labor and Labor Power
6 Abstract Labor
7 Money
8 Value and Price
9 Capital
10 The Circuits of Capital
11 Rent
12 Productive and Unproductive Labor
13 Alienation
14 Primitive Accumulation
15 Demand and Socially Necessary Labor-time
Part Three: Capitalist Production and Reproduction
16 The Capitalist Firm
17 Marxian Theories of the Labor Process: From Marx to Braverman
18 Marxian Labor Process Theory Since Braverman
19 Accumulation
20 Marxian Reproduction Schemes
21 Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall - long term dynamics
22 Business Cycles - short term dynamics
23 Neoliberalism
24 Financialization
Part Four: Capitalism, Non-Capitalism and Transitions
25 Productive Self-employment in Marxism
26 Socialism and Communism
27 International Migration
28 Agriculture and the Agrarian Question
29 Economic Development
30 Transition
Part Five: Marxian Traditions
31 Postmodernism
32 Analytical Marxism
33 Marxism and Keynesianism
34 Social Structure of Accumulation
35 Monopoly Capital Theory
36 Marxism, Feminism and the Household
37 Marxism and Ecology
Index
