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- Description
- vi, 285 pages ; 25 cm.
- Notes
- Contents note continued: Theoretical Issues -- Breakdown -- 11.Value Theory and Economic Events -- Categories and Data -- Prosperity as Depression.Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Marx's Abstraction -- Science -- Idealisation -- Explanation -- 3.Questions of Method -- Marx's Abandonment of Philosophy -- Logic and Abstraction -- Marx's Dialectic -- 4.Theory as Critique -- Political Economy as Text and Discourse -- Representation and Reality -- The Starting Point -- The Argument in Capital -- 5.Labour as Activity and as Representation -- Value as Representation -- Abstract Labour and Value -- Abstraction in Practice -- The Reduction of Skilled Labour -- The Causal Reality of Value -- 6.Value and Price: Marx's Resolution of a Ricardian Conundrum -- Labour and Value -- Value and Price -- 7.Ricardo Redux -- After Sraffa -- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea -- 8.Economic Form and Social Reproduction -- Capital -- Circulation and Reproduction -- 9.Class and Capital -- Economic Appearances and Social Reality -- Economic Class and Social Structure -- Class Struggle and Revolution -- 10.Trend and Cycle --Includes bibliographical references and index.Summary: Theory as Critique', while discussing many central issues of Marxian theory, has two main emphases: First, as the title suggests, it takes seriously 'Capital''s claim to be a critique of economic theory, rather than a contribution to political economy. Understanding what this means, it shows, goes far to unraveling many difficulties traditionally found in Marx's book, from the nature of his theory of class to the "transformation problem." Secondly, Mattick's volume carefully explores how to bridge the gap between the extreme abstraction of Marx's ideas and the complex reality that they are intended to help us understand.
