Value, Money and Capital : The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Starosta, Guido/ Caligaris, Gastón/ Fitzsimons, Alejandro

Routledge（2023/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032063669
• DDC分類 330.122

Full Description

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. Drawing on this literature, the book provides original and innovative insights into key controversies in contemporary capitalism such as the increasingly intellectual character of commodity-producing labour, the emergence of global value chains, the relevance of ground-rent bearing commodities, and the specific, uneven developmental dynamics of "resource-rich" countries in the global process of capital accumulation.

Contributing to the renewed vitality of critical studies of the economic works of Karl Marx, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in contemporary debates within Marxism, as well as readers of political economy, economics, development studies and economic sociology.

Contents

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