256 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
256 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour only under the form of its product, and the exchange of products as commodities as the unique form... Read more
Introduction: The living labour in the critique of political economy Part I: The Labour and its Forms 1. Living Labourand its Objective Forms (commodities and money in history) 2. The Necessity of Money 3. The Historical Making of Living Labour as a Commodity (transition to capitalism) Part II: The Capital-Labour Relationship 4. The Role of Labour in a Capital Theory and the Transformation Problem 5. Co-operation, Abstract Labour and General Intellect 6. The Appropriation of Living Labour and the Capatalist Law of Population Part III: The Curculation of Capital 7. The Formulas of Capital Circuit in the History of Economic Thought 8. The Problem of Constant Capital in Crisis Theory (The weight of dead labour in the 2008 crisis)
Biography
Laurent Baronian is Assistant Professor in Economics at the Université Paris 3, Sorbonne-Nouvelle, France.
"Baronian presents a critical study of Marx's labor theory of value and the 'double character' of labor, focusing on the category of 'living labor,' which he argues is the linchpin of much of Marx's ability to make sense of capitalism. He explains 'the history of capitalist production has to be seen as a history of labor management and of successive technical and organizational means through which capital appropriates the social productive forces of living labor.' He argues that living labor 'sheds light on the profound nature of the false problems of political economy and the solutions economists devise in order to resolve them.' Living labor is shown to explain how money works in the commodity system. The final chapter emphasizes the neglected relation between living labor and constant capital in Marx's theory of crisis, as well as other contradictions between 'living labor's productive forces and the preservation and valorization of the value incorporated into existing capital.'" - Book News
