Uno, who proposes to study capitalism at three distinct levels of abstraction, insists that there should be a mid-range theory of its developmental stages (dankairon) between the pure theory of capital, which must be couched in the form of Hegelian dialectic (genriron), and capitalist histories which must be recounted with full empirical detail. In this book he illustrates how he would himself expose that mid-range theory, by summarising the three types of economic policy that the bourgeois state successively adopted: mercantilism, liberalism and imperialism. He moreover...
Uno, who proposes to study capitalism at three distinct levels of abstraction, insists that there should be a mid-range theory of its developme...
Kozo Uno is widely recognized as one of the most important Marxist economists of the 20th century, and yet most of his work remains untranslated and thus unavailable to the Anglo-Saxon world. This English language edition of his influential Keizai-Seisakuron introduces Uno's argument for a mid-range theory of capitalism's developmental stages--one that exists between pure theory and full empiricism.
Kozo Uno is widely recognized as one of the most important Marxist economists of the 20th century, and yet most of his work remains untranslated and t...
