Marxist political economy

Marx and Underdevelopment

by Pietro P. Masina

with Mauro Di Meglio, in Ben Fine, Alfredo Saad Filho e Marco Boffo (eds) Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Celtenham: Edgar Elgar, 2012

“Turkey's Turn to the East” and the Intra-Class Contradictions in Turkey by Yasin Kaya

by Yasin Kaya

Cosmopolitan Solutions ‘From Below’: Climate Change, International Law, and the Capitalist Challenge

by Romain Felli

in, Paul G. Harris (ed.) Ethics and Global Environmental Policy: Cosmopolitan Conceptions of Climate Change, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2011, pp. 89-107.

O processo produtivo capitalista na agricultura ea introdução dos organismos geneticamente modificados: o caso da cultura da soja Roundup Ready (RR) no Brasil

by Pedro Christoffoli

Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics

by Alan Freeman

Price, Value and Profit–a Continuous, General, Treatment

by Alan Freeman

2nd Marxism & Psychology Conference - Morelia, Mexico (August 9-11, 2012)

by Michael Arfken

Locating Productivity In the Social; The Relevence of Industrial Relations for Productivity Research

by Edwin Sayes

Refereed Paper Presented at Society for Heterodox Economics Annual Conference 2011

In recent times, factors that have traditionally existed outside the scope of standard economic explanations have come... more In recent times, factors that have traditionally existed outside the scope of standard economic explanations have come to be seen as more important for explaining productivity levels and growth rates. One the most notable of these factors is industrial relations: at its most general, the relationship between labour and capital. The relationship between productivity and industrial relations provides a paradigm example of the importance of both conflict and politics for economic outcomes. In this paper I will consider some of the ways in which industrial relations have been linked to productivity – both as a determinant that is relevant for productivity and as a determinant that is relevant for the distribution of the economic benefits associated with increases in productivity. Industrial relations, it will be argued, are an important aspect of the wider social metabolism which mediates between inputs and outputs.

The nonillusory effects of neoliberalisation: linking geographies of poverty, inequality, and violence

by Simon Springer

Springer, S. 2008. The nonillusory effects of neoliberalisation: linking geographies of poverty, inequality, and violence. Geoforum. 39 (4), 1520-1525.

This paper steps into recent debates concerning the (f)utility of neoliberalism as an ‘actually existing’ concept by... more This paper steps into recent debates concerning the (f)utility of neoliberalism as an ‘actually existing’ concept by reminding the reader that without a Marxian political economy approach, one that specifically includes neoliberalisation as part of its theoretical edifice, we run the risk of obfuscating the reality of capitalism’s festering poverty, rising inequality, and ongoing geographies of violence as something unknowable and ‘out there’. By failing to acknowledge such nonillusory effects of neoliberalisation and refusing the explanatory power neoliberalism holds in relating similar constellations of experiences across space as a potential basis for emancipation, we precipitously ensure the prospect of a violent future.

Is the theory of a falling profit valid

by paul cockshott

Paper submitted to Das Argument, June 2011

Marx's theory of the falling rate of prot makes two main appearances in his work.
The rst is in Chapter 25 of... more Marx's theory of the falling rate of prot makes two main appearances in his work.
The rst is in Chapter 25 of Capital Volume 1, entitled: The General Law of Capitalist
Accumulation. It is further developed in Part III of Volume 3 of Capital, entitled The
Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Prot to Fall.
In this paper I will outline the structure of the theory presented in these two
volumes of Capital. Following that I will look at some criticisms that have been levelled
at it. I will go on to argue that the criticisms are based on a misunderstanding of some
of the dynamic causal mechanisms that Marx assumed. Following on from this I shall
present a dynamic solution to the equations of accumulation and show under what
circumstances these lead to a falling rate of prot. The dynamic model will then be
used to analyse the trajectories of some contemporary capitalist economies and to help
understand the current structure of the world economy.

Labour-power

by Peter D. Thomas

Peter Thomas, “Labour-power (Arbeitskraft)”, Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, 2/2010.

From the ‘fall of the rate of profit’ in the Grundrisse to the cyclical development of the profit rate in Capital

by Peter D. Thomas

Geert Reuten and Peter Thomas, “From the ‘fall of the rate of profit’ in the Grundrisse to the cyclical development of the profit rate in Capital”, Science and Society 75.1, 2011.

Review of David Laibman's book, 'Deep history: a study in social evolution and human potential'

by Jim Farmelant

Review of Critical and Post-Critical Political Economy

by Christian Garland

Published in Studies in Marxism 12 2011 pps 250-53