Guido Starosta, Gastón Caligaris, Alejandro Fitzsimons

Value, Money and Capital (eBook, ePUB)

The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book presents a high-impact re-reading of core topics in the Marx and Marxist debates including: value-theory, the commodity-nature of money, complex or skilled labour, the determination of the value of labour-power and the nature of extraordinary surplus value.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000965995
• Artikelnr.: 68616590

Autorenporträt

Guido Starosta is a Professor in the History of Economic Thought at the National University of Quilmes (UNQ) and a member of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and of the Centre for Science as Practical Criticism (CICP), in Argentina. His research interests are in the critique of political economy and political economy of development. He is currently investigating economic and political forms of the accumulation of capital in Argentina. He also works on issues of method and subjectivity in the Marxian critique of political economy.

Gastón Caligaris is a Lecturer in the History of Economic Thought at the National University of Quilmes (UNQ) and a member of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and of the Centre for Science as Practical Criticism (CICP), in Argentina. His research interests are in agrarian production and the relationship between economy and politics in contemporary Argentine society. Other research interests include dialectical method and value theory in the Marxian critique of political economy.

Alejandro Fitzsimons is a Lecturer in Argentine Economic History at the National University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a member of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and of the Centre for Science as Practical Criticism (CICP), in Argentina. His most recent research examines the forms of valorisation of capital in the industrial sector, with a regional focus on Latin America. His other research interests include the economic dynamics of capital accumulation in Argentina and general topics of the Marxian critique of political economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction CHAPTER 1. The determinations of value as historically-specific social form. Part I: materiality and social form of abstract labour CHAPTER 2. The determinations of value as historically-specific social form. Part II: production and circulation CHAPTER 3. Systematic and historical modes of explanation in the critique of political economy. A methodological contribution to the controversy over the commodity nature of money CHAPTER 4. Skilled labour and value-production. An alternative approach to a longstanding and unresolved controversy in the critique of political economy CHAPTER 5. Rethinking the determination of the value of labour-power CHAPTER 6. Extra surplus-value from innovation and the marxian critique of political economy CHAPTER 7. Cognitive commodities and the growing role of intellectual labour in value-production CHAPTER 8. A critical look at Global Value Chains: competition and globalisation in contemporary capitalism. The case of the automotive industry CHAPTER 9. The debate over the determinations of ground-rent and the implications for the comprehension of the exchange of agrarian and mining commodities on the world market CHAPTER 10. The specificity of capital accumulation in Latin America. A critique of Dependency Theory