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An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophy

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John E. Roemer

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Attacking the usefulness of such central Marxian concepts as the labor theory of value and surplus value, John Roemer reconstructs Marxian economic philosophy from the concepts of exploitation and class, showing that exploitation can be derived from a system of property relations. He then looks at the causes of the unequal distribution of wealth, including robbery and plunder, willingness to take risks, differential rates of time preference, luck, and entrepreneurship. He further examines the evolution of property systems-slave, feudal, capitalist, socialist-from the perspective of the theory of historical materialism, and ends by analyzing the properties of a social system in which ownership of productive assets in the external world is public, while ownership of internal productive assets-skills and talents-is private.

Author Biography:

John E. Roemer is Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University.

Release date NZ

January 1st, 1988

Author

John E. Roemer

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

216

Dimensions

154x235x12

ISBN-13

9780674318762

Product ID

3787887

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