In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx s theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical economists, once pondered: how can every commodity, including labor power, sell at its value on the market and still produce a profit for owners of capital? While bourgeois economists attempted to answer this question according to the categories of capitalist society itself, Marx sought to peer through the surface phenomena of market transactions and develop his theory by examining the actual...
In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx s theory of value. He begins with th...