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Marx's Crises Theory Scarcity, Labor, and Finance

By Michael Perelman

ISBN: 0-275-92372-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-92372-3

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256 pages, index

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 7/13/1987

List Price: $60.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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The book offers a first rate reading of how to use Marx' method of dialectics to analyze critically certain of Capital's categories . . . the book offers insight for future research that might explore the precise relationship between these revised categories and economic crises.
—Journal of Economic Literature
Perelman also devotes considerable attention to Marx's categories of constant capital, and simultaneous and coexisting labor, as well as to Marx's methodology of dialectical elaboration of the contradictions underlying the categories of political economy.
—Coop. Economics New Service

Description: The history of capitalism has long been thought to be a sequence of recurring crises that appear in various forms: crises in employing people, crises in obtaining resources, and financial crises. Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor, and Finance provides a framework for interpreting Marx's theory of crises. In conclusion, the author asserts that as long as the financial structure leads to periodic breakdowns, Marx's writings on the subject will retain their importance as a source of theory and analysis of the dynamics of political economy.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Need for a New Reading of Marx's Crisis Theory
Political Economy and the Press: Karl Marx and Henry Carey
Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity
In Search of a Method: The Nature and Evolution of the Categories
Value Theory and Marx's Method
Capital, Constant Capital, and the Social Division of Labor
Fictitious Capital and the Crises Theory

LC Card Number: 87-6936

LCC Class: HB97

Dewey Class: 330


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