Showing 1 - 10 of 147
This paper provides a formal dynamic analysis of exploitation, class inequalities and profits. A stylised model of a … existence of exploitation. Second, it is shown that, in a competitive environment, asset inequalities are fundamental for the … emergence of exploitation, but they are not sufficient for its persistence, both in equilibria with accumulation and growth, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927981
Karl Marx's magnum opus, Das Kapital, presents an analysis of the long run dynamics of a mature capitalist economy. The analysis is conducted at two primary levels of abstraction - "capital in general" (where competition between individual capitals is abstracted from) and "many capitals" (where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788915
The paper presents the history of the contribution of two American economists to a radical cause: the establishment of a socialist and politically united Africa. The setting is 1960s Ghana which under Kwame Nkrumah, the man who led the country to independence from British colonial rule, emerged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592227
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651874
Die Diskussion um Karl Marx ist lange Zeit nur ideologisch positionell geführt worden. Wer sich nicht als Gegner oder Befürworter der Marxschen Lehre erklärte, hatte es schwer, in dieser Diskussion Gehör zu finden. Im letzten Viertel des vorigen Jahrhunderts hat jedoch sowohl in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422232
New Public Management (NPM) reforms have emerged in the public administration systems of many Western countries in recent decades. The dominant view in international research on NPM is that these reforms are the product of neo-liberal ideas. In this article, I set out to nuance this view by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442482
The work deals with the ideological clashes in Russian economic thought after 1991. Based on Schumpeter's distinction between economic analysis and economic thought, the paper focuses on a principal conflict that divides a new generation of Westernminded scholars and traditional Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295458
In recent years, institutional and evolutionary economists have become increasingly aware that ideas play an important role in economic development. In the current literature, the problem is usually elaborated upon in purely theoretical terms. In the present paper it is argued that ideas are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295470
Starting from Schumpeter.s important distinction between .real analysis. and .monetary analysis., in this paper it is shown that major elements of Marx.s economic theory fall in the camp of monetary analysis and the implications for Marx.s theory of capital accumulation are derived. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306782
This paper takes off from Jan Kregel's paper 'Shylock and Hamlet, or Are There Bulls and Bears in the Circuit?' (1986), which aimed to remedy shortcomings in most expositions of the circuit approach. While some circuitistes have rejected John Maynard Keynes's liquidity preference theory, Kregel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286517