This article deals with a theoretical point: the alleged consistency of the Marxian notion of exploitation with the Sraffian theory of prices. The problem is examined in a historico-critical perspective. The discussion is centred on the idea that in a circular model of production with vertically...

This is a note on labour exploitation and alienation in the economic thought of Marx and Napoleoni. It is a comment on a previous article on the subject by Riccardo Bellofiore.

This is a review-article on a book edited by M. Guidi and L. Michelini on marginalism and socialism in Italy during the liberal age 1870-1925.

This is the Italian version of ‘Value and Marx: why it matters’ which appeared in Vasopollo, L (2002) (ed) ‘Un Vecchio Falso Problema: La Transformazione dei valori in prezzi nel Capital di Marx’, Roma: Laboratoria per la critica sociale. It was presented at the May 2002 conference...

Marx develops two alternative theories of the employment contract: one treats it as an agreement of commodity exchange, and one as a relational arrangement. In the former theory Marx introduces the notion of 'labour power' as a physical stock of labour capacity. Then he argues that the worker,...

Marx's analysis of the determination of the general rate of profit and of the associated relative prices is based on the conceptual distinction between law of value and law of exchange. The law of value states that simple, necessary abstract labour is the substance and measure of the value of...

Italian Abstract: Il possibile nesso tra crisi economiche e quello che Marx e Hilferding chiamavano "centralizzazione" del capitale è uno dei temi sollevati dalla "grande recessione". L'articolo esamina i principali studi dedicati a tale nesso, confrontando la letteratura economica marxista e...

Italian Abstract: l testo è la trascrizione di una conferenza tenuta il 12 maggio 1973 da Claudio Napoleoni, nell'ambito di un corso di politica economica e finanziaria all'Università di Torino. La conferenza, curata da Riccardo Bellofiore, riguarda il Monopoly Capital di Baran e Sweezy e la...

Italian Abstract: L'articolo introduce il presente numero, che si concentra sulle interpretazioni marxiste della crisi. L'autore descrive e mette in relazione l'interpretazione di Claudio Napoleoni della teoria del valore del lavoro e del Monopoly Capital di Baran e Sweezy. L'articolo evidenzia...

Marx's analysis of the determination of the general rate of profit and of the associated relative prices is based on the conceptual distinction between law of value and law of exchange. The law of value states that simple, necessary abstract labour is the substance and measure of the value of...