This paper presents a theory that argues that the values of foreign moneys are not determined on the exchange markets but outside of them. It discusses the following in three logical steps. (1) Even fiat money has a commodity character within the circle of commodity producers in the least, to...

Society is self-organising or re-creative in the sense that new emergent structures result from interactions of actors, these structures enable and constrain actions and stimulate further practices. Political self-organisation is a reflexive process where political agents co-ordinate their...

The work analyses the relations between relative prices, profits and rents. It briefly reviews the main theoretical literature on the subject and then considers the empirical evidence on the case of Italy in the period 1951-1971.

This paper considers the interconnections between the nature and organization of work and the level of unemployment. We consider how actions taken at the workplace level can impede as well as facilitate the reduction in unemployment. We also consider how the workplace may be reformed to overcome...

In questo saggio intendiamo discutere la questione del tempo libero nel capitalismo alla luce della problematica della liberazione dal e del lavoro (par. 1). Nel far ciò, dopo aver criticato la concezione dell’essere umano propria della scienza economica, proporremo l’abbozzo di una...

The present paper on the now partly well known Russian mathematician and “amateur economist” v. Charasoff was originally written in 1987 together with H. Duffner three years after Charasoff’s remarkable contribution of 1910 “Das System des Marxismus” (The system of Marxism) had been...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the critical arguments made by Burmeis- ter, Samuelson, and others, with respect to Sraffa (1960). Sraffa did not address these arguments, but they are relevant from the viewpoint of modern economic theories. In his arguments about the standard commodity,...

Capitalism as we know it presents typical dialectical features that isolate it from nature, in which real oppositions make evolution revolutionary: A dialectical metaphysics replaces the free flow of events allowing capitalist relationships but preventing the practice of materialism. Some...

O texto propõe uma reavaliação das categorias pós-keynesianas tendo em vista o fenômeno das leis da entropia, tal como definidas por Georgescu-Roegen (1971), propondo a partir daí uma crítica à economia ambiental neoclássica a partir desta reavaliação categorial. Para tanto, faz-se de...