Reclaiming Marx's Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of InconsistencyLexington Books, 2007 - 231 من الصفحات 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. |
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Introduction The Question of Internal Inconsistency | 1 |
Marxs Value Theory and Contending Interpretations | 19 |
A Brief History of the Controversy | 41 |
Making Marx Make Sense On Interpretive Method | 55 |
Simultaneism Physicalism and the Law of Value | 75 |
Was Marx a Simultaneist? | 89 |
The Falling Rate of Profit Controversy | 113 |
The Transformation Problem 1 Marxs Solution and Its Critics | 139 |
The Transformation Problem 2 If It Aint Broke Dont Correct It | 157 |
The Fundamental Marxian Theorem | 175 |
An Empirical Defense of the Law of Value? | 193 |
Summary and Conclusions | 205 |
Bibliography | 213 |
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