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yourself--then this is the place to start."--Alan Freeman,
Department of Social Sciences, University of Greenwich
"[A]lmost everyone, orthodox and Marxian economists alike, [has]
acceptedthe view that Marx's value theory is internally
inconsistent. . . .[This
book] sorts out a bewildering tangle of approaches and issues in
order todemonstrate that the charge of internal inconsistency is
false. . . .Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital' is a fresh attempt to get
it right, in termsMarx himself would have recognized."
--Thomas Jeannot, Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga
University
"This is the first comprehensive introduction to all aspects of
thetransformation 'problem.' It will become the standard reference
work in theyears to come. No serious work on value theory can
afford to ignore it."
--Guglielmo Carchedi, Department of Economics and Econometrics,
Universityof Amsterdam (Ret.)
From the back cover -------------------This book seeks to
reclaim Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency,a myth that
serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of
politicaleconomy and present-day research based upon it. Andrew
Kliman shows that thealleged inconsistencies are actually caused by
misinterpretation. Bymodifying the standard interpretation of
Marx's value theory in two simpleways, the recent "temporal
single-system interpretation" eliminates all of the alleged
inconsistencies. Written especially for the nonspecialist reader in
a clear accessible style and with the bare minimum of
mathematics,Reclaiming Marx's "Capital" introduces readers to
Marx's value theory andcontrasting interpretations of it, the
history of the internal inconsistencycontroversy, and interpretive
standards and methods. Kliman then surveysMarx's
falling-rate-of-profit theory, the relationship of prices to
values(the "transformation problem"), Marx's exploitation theory of
profit, andother topics. The book ends with a discussion of why the
myth of inconsistency persists, and a call to set the record
straight.
* Read the Table of Contents, Index, and start of Preface at the
author'swebsite:http://akliman.squarespace.com/reclaiming
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