Revitalizing Marxist theory for today's capitalism

Amidst a capitalist crisis that has upturned mainstream orthodoxies, this volume underscores the importance of historical and materialist understandings of capitalist economies. Thus, fundamentally, it exposes the limitations of neoclassical economics' endogenous growth theory and how it, in fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zarembka, Paul
Other Authors: Desai, Radhika
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald 2011
Series:Research in political economy
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A critique of mainstream growth theory : ways out of the neoclassical science (-fiction) and toward Marxism / Rémy Herrera
  • From growth stagnation to financial crisis : unproductive labor as a missing link in mainstream theory / Robert Chernomas, Fletcher Baragar
  • Crisis theory and the great recession : a personal journey, from Marx to Minsky / Riccardo Bellofiore
  • 'Financial' vs. 'real' : an overview of the contradictory role of finance / Özgür Orhangazi
  • Nikolai Sieber : an introduction to a political economist approved by Marx / James D. White
  • Marx's economic theory / Nikolai Ivanovich Sieber
  • The value and price of information commodities : an assessment of the South Korean controversy / Heesang Jeon
  • Lenin's economics : a Marxian critique / Seongjin Jeong
  • Class struggle in production and devalorization of capital / A.D. Magaline
  • Marxism, crisis, and economic laws : a comment / Gary Mongiovi
  • Crisis, Marxism, and economic laws : a response to Gary Mongiovi / Alan Freeman