Zusammenfassung Durch die Verdichtung der Arbeit in den letzten Jahrzehnten haben Klagen über Entfremdungsphänomene wieder zugenommen. Aber was ist Entfremdung? Ausgehend von Beobachtungen des Wandels der Arbeitswelt reformuliert dieser Beitrag die Marx‘sche Theorie der Entfremdung auf eine...

Purpose – This article aims to provide a response to the papers in this issue. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology employed is philosophical. Findings – In her response, Nussbaum thanks the authors for their contributions and addresses their most salient arguments....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the significant factors determining foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (ASEAN3) and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore (ASEAN5). Design/methodology/approach – This paper applies the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a model that relates the desire for justice with welfare. Design/methodology/approach – The point of departure, elaborated in the first part of the paper, is the observation that we have no sense-organs for experiencing welfare and the...

Social class lies at the core of much that Marx said about the “laws of history.” Class conflict was to be the means whereby capitalism would be overthrown, superseded by a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat and, subsequently, by a communist society in which alienation and...

Purpose The extent to which Amartya Sen’s capability approach is prefigured in Karl Marx’s views comes into sharper focus when one notes that Marx and Friedrich Engels explicitly argued that the transformation from capitalism to communism would involve the development of “a totality of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the recent history of proposals to tax resource rents in Australia, from Australia’s Future Tax System Report (the “Henry Tax Review”) through to the proposed Resource Super Profits Tax (“RSPT”) and then the Minerals Resource Rent Tax...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Marxist accounts of capitalism and capitalists as “vampiric” and “cannibalistic” can challenge the exploitation underlying “monstrosity” of the diverse “liberal organization”. Design/methodology/approach – To bear out...

Purpose – This critique of Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century summarizes and comments on the main tenets of the author’s principal theory. The author's aim is to point out the book’s contributions to a critical debate around social and economic issues, while giving special...