Acknowledgments -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- The invisible hand -- Marx's theory of value and accounting -- Accounting and the production of capital -- An accounting critique of marxist economics -- Marx's accounting solution to the "transformation p…
"Farewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s. A process with tendencies to both intellectualize labour power and increase the levels of working class' precariousness, on a global scale. Its main hypothesis is that in…
Die schottischen Wissenschaftler Paul Cockshott und Allin Cottrell schwimmen gegen den Strom. Sie zeigen, dass eine effektive und jeder Regulierung durch den Markt überlegene Planwirtschaft möglich ist. Anhand einer kritischen Aufarbeitung des gescheiterten Realsozialismus und d…
The doctrine of "free trade" is second only to that of "free markets" in undergirding ideological support for our current global economic structures and rules. From David Ricardo's "comparative advantage principle" to James Meade's Neoclassical or mainstream economics proof of s…
An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation. The computerization of the economy--and everyday life--has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting …
"Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the major writers of the Frankfurt School, with ongoing relevance to current debates about value, abstraction, and domination, Sohn-Rethel's ideas…
"Value Without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō's (1897-1977) theory of 'pure capitalism' in the light of the method and object of Marx's Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of va…
"Value Without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō's (1897-1977) theory of 'pure capitalism' in the light of the method and object of Marx's Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of va…
Exploring the origins and development of the labour theory of value, Peter Dooley examines its emergence from the natural law philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth century and its domination of the classical school of economics. This book will prove to be essential readin…