In order to explain how the Korean economy underwent the structural change through the two crises of 1997-8 and 2008 within the context of globalization, this article focuses on class analysis and inter-sectoral value transfer by estimating the sectoral rates of exploitation along with the...

In this paper, we report a puzzling result about the monetary expressions of labor time (MELTs) of the productive and unproductive sectors. Since part of the aggregate value produced in productive sectors is transferred to unproductive sectors, the productive sector's MELT is a measure of value...

In order to explain how the Korean economy underwent the structural change through the two crises of 1997-8 and 2008 within the context of globalization, this article focuses on class analysis and inter-sectoral value transfer by estimating the sectoral rates of exploitation along with the...

In this paper, we report a puzzling result about the monetary expressions of labor time (MELTs) of the productive and unproductive sectors. Since part of the aggregate value produced in productive sectors is transferred to unproductive sectors, the productive sector's MELT is a measure of value...

This paper suggests a way to determine the “monetary expression of labor” (the “MELT”) in today's regime of inconvertible credit money, a way that is consistent with Marx's general theory of money and is quantitatively the same as Marx's determination of the MELT in the case of the...

This paper tries to answer the important question: how is the “monetary expression of labor time†(MELT) determined under the inconvertible credit money system? We provide a clear definition of the inconvertible credit money system by differentiating four monetary regimes. It is argued...

This article further develops the notion of a turnover continuum so as to better comprehend the logical structure of Capital. The concept is modified to include surplus value and the interconnectedness of multiple industries. By bringing together the value of labor-power, the monetary expression...