O artigo analisa a noção de capital fictício em Marx a partir das idéias de autonomia dos valores relativamente aos preços e de autonomia da circulação relativamente à produção. Explora, nesta análise, o debate sobre a forma valor entre marxistas, e a noção de capital financeiro,...

This paper reviews two elaborations on alternatives to capitalism (Roemer, 1994 e Burczak, 2006). The present round of the controversy on socialism, planning vs. market, was triggered by the collapse of the bureaucratic regime in the URSS. One key feature of the present round is the influence of...

Metamorphoses of capitalism may be investigated following a dialogue between two theoretical approaches: long waves of capitalist development (Freeman & Louçã, 2001) and systemic cycles of accumulation (Arrighi, 1994). This dialogue organizes this paper. The first section associates the...

This article critically examines Christopher Arthur’s “New Dialectic”, showing its analytical and formal character, which works through the addition of determinations, making necessary to “reconstruct” Marx’s Capital. With the abandonment of the universal concrete, the unfolding of...

In this paper we analyze the concept of capital, using as starty point the Cambridge Controversies in the theory of capital. In the first section, we present neoclassical views regarding the concept of capital, mensuration of marginal product of capital and the theories of distribution,...

This article analyses the so-called "new solution" for the problem of transforming values into prices, which is based on the redefinition of the Marxian concepts of money and variable capital as well as on the assumption that the total value added should remain the same through the...

Neo-Schumpeterian economics has elaborated a theory of the role of science and technology in capitalist dynamics. We argue that this approach may be improved if it takes Marx's theory of capital into account. This (collective) effort should also consider contributions from some classic authors...

This article presents a critique of the solution of the Temporal Single System Marxism (TSS) for the problem of transforming values into prices, which establishes that values and prices are simultaneously determined in a sucession of periods of production and circulation; the value transferred...

Este artigo analisa a abordagem do sistema temporal unico (STU) do problema da transformação de valores em preços, segundo o qual os valores e preços são determinados simultaneamente, obedecendo a determinada sequência temporal; as somas de dinheiro utilizadas na aquisição de meios de...

Este artigo desenvolve uma interpretação a respeito da produção capitalista do conhecimento e também do papel do conhecimento na produção capitalista a partir da teoria do valor de Marx, buscando atualizá-la para o capitalismo contemporâneo. Parte-se de uma crítica às idéias de Prado...