A number of Marxist scholars have tied aspects of Marx's thought to certain Aristotelian categories, yet remarkably little is said of Marx's dialectical materialism in this literature. Here we attempt to lay a foundation for such an effort, paying particular attention to the way in which...

I count it a great privilege to contribute an essay to the volume for John Henry. I have known him since he was a doctoral student at McGill in the 1970s. John was supervised by my old and dear friend, the late Athanasios (Tom) Asimakopulos. (Tom and I were Ph.D students at King's, Cambridge in...

This paper argues that despite a growing body of scholarly literature on Sir James Steuart, his theory of history and influence on Marxian political economy has been largely ignored. The approach of this paper is motivated, in part, by Marx's sympathetic treatment of Steuart found in the opening...

Drawing on Marx's Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, the paper suggests that Marx's methodological critique of Hegel's idealist procedure, of hypostatising abstractions and then reinterpreting the world as the realisation of those hypostases, is re-directed onto the state itself....

Austrian economist Ludwig Mises’s central role in the socialist calculation debates has been consensually acknowledged since the early 1920s. Yet, only recently, Nemeth, O’Neill, Uebel, and others have drawn particular attention to Mises’s pertinent encounter with one of the most colorful...

This article surveys computational approaches to classical-Marxian economics. These approaches include a range of techniques - such as numerical simulations, agent-based models, and Monte Carlo methods - and cover many areas within the classical-Marxian tradition. We focus on three major themes...

The main objective of this paper is to present a reinterpretation of Karl Popper’s position on the methodological and sociopolitical views of Karl Marx. In spite of the weaknesses of the Popperian critique of the achievements of Marx, special attention will be focused on the explanation of...

Over 100 years since Marx's value theory of labour was first published, the so-called quot;transformation problemquot; -- deriving prices from values and providing a theory of profits as arising from surplus value -- has inspired the imagination of economist of all shades of intellectual...

The present paper scrutinizes the logical foundation of Marx's dialectic analysis of the evolving money economy. The minimalistic frame of reference is thereby given with the set of structural axioms. It turns out, first, that the commonplace notion of exploitation has to be replaced by...

Mainstream economics conceives power to be incompatible with perfect competition. This conception, I argue, derives from its deductivist method and the empirical realist ontology that it presupposes. Following Marx, I show that capitalism constantly reproduces asymmetrical constraints on classes...