The individual as a key term -- Property and reification -- The public/private divide -- The shaping of the modern liberal state -- The economics of "autophagy": implications of the economy as "machine" -- Methods of social science -- "Unique individuals" -- The property paradigm --...

From development to BRICS : the policy magical mystery tour / Richard Westra -- Brics up close -- Current paths of development in the southern cone : deindustrialization and a return to the agro-export model / Paul Cooney -- A BRIC despite itself : sustained growth versus neoliberalism in India...

Introduction and selected review of the literature -- Money as a social institution -- The economy as labor exchange mediated by money -- Long term history of money and the market -- Money, models, and methodology -- Fetishism and financialization -- Money and abstraction -- Conclusion

This book will provide the first comprehensive and systematic overview of the attitudes of different schools of thought towards the issue of work time. Topics covered include assumptions on what determines the length of the work day and week, changes in production systems and their consequences...

"Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human flourishing. Westra discards at the outset views...

"Karl Marx hypothesized that there is a long-term tendency for the profit rate to fall in capitalist economies. Immanuel Wallerstein hypothesized that capitalist development tends to drive up labor cost, material cost, and taxation cost. This book evaluates Marx's and Wallerstein's hypotheses by...

From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour only under...