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Author Roemer, John E.

Title Free to lose : an introduction to Marxist economic philosophy / John E. Roemer.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 203 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index.
Contents ""Contents""; ""1. Introduction""; ""The Private Property System""; ""Exploitation""; ""Classes""; ""Historical Materialism""; ""Capitalism and Freedom""; ""Method""; ""A Preview""; ""2. The Origin of Exploitation""; ""An Egalitarian Distribution of Capital""; ""The Technical Definition of Exploitation""; ""Unequal Ownership of the Capital Stock""; ""The Causes of Exploitation""; ""The Industrial Reserve Army""; ""Concluding Comments""; ""3. Feudalism and Capitalism""; ""A Brief Account of Feudalism""; ""A Difference between Capitalism and Feudalism""; ""4. Exploitation and Profits""
""Embodied Labor and Exploitation""""Prices and the Profit Rate""; ""The Relationship between Exploitation and Profits""; ""An Economy with Many Produced Goods""; ""The Social Division of Labor and the Perception of Exploitation""; ""The Labor Theory of Value""; ""5. The Morality of Exploitation""; ""Exploitation as the Source of Profits""; ""The Initial Distribution""; ""Justification of Unequal Distribution""; ""6. The Emergence of Class""; ""A Definition of Equilibrium for a Corn Model with Assets""; ""Class Formation""; ""Class and Wealth""; ""Class and Exploitation""
""The Significance of Class""""Exploitation Deemphasized""; ""7. Exploitation without a Labor Market""; ""The Corn Economy with a Capital Market""; ""Capital Market Island: The Five-Class Model""; ""Capital Markets and Workers� Cooperatives""; ""Exploitation without Labor or Capital Markets""; ""International Capitalism: Imperialism and Labor Migration""; ""Domination versus Exploitation versus Property Relations""; ""8. Historical Materialism""; ""Economic Structure, Productive Forces, and Superstructure""; ""The Role of Class Struggle""; ""The Logic of the Theory""
""Challenges from Economic History""""Evolving Property Relations""; ""9. Evolving Forms of Exploitation""; ""Historical Materialism and Private Property""; ""The Failure of Surplus Value as a Measure of Exploitation""; ""A Property-Relations Approach to Capitalist Exploitation""; ""Feudal Exploitation""; ""A Comparison of Revolutionary Transitions""; ""Socialist Exploitation""; ""Socially Necessary Exploitation""; ""Syndicalization versus Socialization""; ""10. Public Ownership of the Means of Production""; ""The Case for Public Ownership""; ""Three Political Philosophies""
""The Story of Able and Infirm""""Characterization of an Economic Constitution""; ""Evaluation""; ""11. Epilogue""; ""Appendix: Statements and Proofs of Theorems""; ""Bibliographical Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
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Subject Marxian economics -- Mathematical models.
Marxian economics -- Mathematical models.
Marxian economics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Roemer, John E. Free to lose. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988 0674318765 9780674318762 (DLC) 87012121 (OCoLC)15793165
ISBN 9780674042865 (electronic book)
0674042867 (electronic book)
9780674318762
0674318765 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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