Capital, Exploitation and Economic Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781138799622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str.

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Opis

Marx anticipated crises in capitalism, arguing that it was derivative from the 'fetishism of commodities' inherent in the capitalist mode of production; this book substantiates the claim exploring Marx's analysis of commodities in relation to the recent crisis.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Value as Embodied Labor 2. Value as a Social Relation(Annex to Chapter 1 and 2: Marx and Engels on the Law of Value) 3. Exploitation and Surplus Value 4. The Circuit of Capital (Annex to Chapter 4: Marxian and Mainstream Economic Categories) 5. Commodity Money 6. Capital and Money (Annex to Chapter 6: The Neoclassical Quantity Theory) 7. Credit, Crises and Capital 8. Competition among Capitals 9. Fixed Capital and Circulation (Annex to Chapter 9: Marx and Demand Failures) 10. Accumulation and Crises 11. First Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

O autorze

John Weeks is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of London, UK.