Andrew Kliman

Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital' (eBook, ePUB)

A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to reclaim Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based upon it. Andrew Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. By modifying the standard interpretation of Marx's value theory in two simple ways, the recent 'temporal single-system interpretation' eliminates all of the alleged inconsistencies. Written especially for the non-specialist reader, in a clear, accessible style and with the bare minimum of mathematics, Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital' introduces readers to Marx's value theory and contrasting interpretations of it, the history of the internal inconsistency controversy, and interpretive standards and methods. Kliman then surveys Marx's falling-rate-of-profit theory, the relationship of prices to values (the 'transformation problem'), Marx's exploitation theory of profit, and other topics. The book ends with a discussion of why the myth of inconsistency persists, and a call to set the record straight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739160022
• Artikelnr.: 39418908

Autorenporträt

Andrew Kliman is professor emeritus of economics at Pace University in New York and editor of the Lexington Books series Heterodox Studies in the Critique of Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Question of Internal Inconsistency
Chapter 2 Marx's Value Theory and Contending Interpretations
Chapter 3 A Brief History of the Controversy
Chapter 4 Making Marx Make Sense: On Interpretive Method
Chapter 5 Simultaneism, Physicalism, and the Law of Value
Chapter 6 Was Marx a Simultaneist?
Chapter 7 A Falling Rate of Profit Controversy
Chapter 8 The "Transformation Problem" (1): Marx's Solution and Its Critics
Chapter 9 The "Transformation Problem" (2): If It Ain't Broke, Don't
Correct It
Chapter 10 The "Fundamental Marxian Theorem"
Chapter 11 An Empirical Defense of the Law of Value?
Chapter 12 Summary and Conclusions