Marx's 'Capital' : Philosophy and Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415571012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 228 str.

Geoffrey Pilling

Opis

This reprint, originally published in 1980, argues powerfully that, in order to understand 'Capital' fully, it is necessary to have read and understood Hegel's 'Logic'. This argument leads to a detailed examination of the opening chapters of 'Capital', and a re-examination of their significance for the work as a whole.

First published in 1984, this book carefully dissects and convincingly demonstrates that conservative economics is incoherent in theory and disastrous in practice. The three main schools of thought supporting "free-market" policies – supply side economics, monetarism and rational expectations- are examined in turn and each is found defective. Three case studies of conservative policy in action follow: Reagan’s U.S., Thatcher’s U.K. and Pinochet’s Chile and their courses are charted in economic conservatism’s ideology and social policy, and the book concludes with an assessment of the political reasons for the theoretical incoherence and practical failure.

This is a careful and comprehensive look at this subject which tackles both the theory and the practice head-on. It will make useful and stimulating reading for students of economics and political economy on courses of economic policy and macro-economics and in addition will be of keen interest to all those involved in the debate about one of the major policy issues of our time.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Marx’s Critique of Classical Economics 3. The Concepts of Capital  4. The Significance of the Opening Chapters  5. Some Aspects of Marx’s Notion of Commodity Fetishism

O autorze

Geoffrey Pilling