1st Edition

Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown

By Güney Işıkara, Patrick Mokre Copyright 2026
220 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Why do humans produce the things they do, in the way they do it?  As this book shows, the classical political economics approach to value and prices has fundamental implications for analyzing the historical trajectory of capitalism. It demonstrates that the classical political economists’ approach to value and prices, which finds its most advanced formulation in Marx, sheds light on the... Read more

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Acknowledgements

1.Introduction

2.Value and Prices in Classical Political Economics

3.The Empirical Strength of the Labor Theory of Value

4.International Trade, Value Transfers, and Imperialism

5.Ecological Breakdown, Ground Rent, and the Law of Value

Appendices

 

Biography

Güney Işıkara received his PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research in 2019. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University. Güney’s research focuses on the ecological breakdown and its relation to market mechanisms and alternative ways of organizing production and reproduction.

Patrick Mokre received his PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research in 2022. Patrick’s research gravitates around the political economy of labor, inequality, and capitalism.