The mismeasure of wealth : essays on Marx and social form / by Patrick Murray.

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Murray, Patrick, 1948- [author.]

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TextSeries: Historical materialism book series ; 126.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 550 pages)Content type:

text

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9789004326071
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B3305.M74 M843 2016

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‎Contents; ‎Preface; ‎Acknowledgements; ‎Notes on Chapters; ‎Introduction: Putting the Spotlight on Social Form and Purpose; ‎Part 1. The Essays; ‎Chapter 1. Value, Money and Capital in Hegel and Marx; ‎Chapter 2. Redoubled Empiricism: The Place of Social Form and Formal Causality in Marxian Theory; ‎Chapter 3. Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy; ‎Chapter 4. Marx's 'Truly Social' Labour Theory of Value: Part I, Abstract Labour in Marxian Value Theory

‎Chapter 5. Marx's 'Truly Social' Labour Theory of Value: Part II, How is Labour That is under the Sway of Capital Actually Abstract?‎Chapter 6. The Grammar of Value: A Close Look at Marx's Critique of Samuel Bailey; ‎Chapter 7. Unavoidable Crises: Reflections on Backhaus and the Development of Marx's Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse; ‎Chapter 8. The Necessity of Money: How Hegel Helped Marx Surpass Ricardo's Theory of Value; ‎Chapter 9. Money as Displaced Social Form: Why Value Cannot be Independent of Price

‎Chapter 10. The Social and Material Transformation of Production by Capital: Formal and Real Subsumption in Capital, Volume I‎Chapter 11. The Place of 'The Results of the Immediate Production Process' in Capital; ‎Chapter 12. Beyond the 'Commerce and Industry' Picture of Capital; ‎Chapter 13. The Secret of Capital's Self-Valorisation 'Laid Bare': How Hegel Helped Marx to Overturn Ricardo's Theory of Profit; ‎Chapter 14. The Illusion of the Economic: The Trinity Formula and the 'Religion of Everyday Life'; ‎Part 2. Critical Engagements

‎Chapter 15. Avoiding Bad Abstractions: A Defence of Co-constitutive Value-Form Theory‎Chapter 16. The New Giant's Staircase; ‎Chapter 17. In Defence of the 'Third Thing Argument': A Reply to James Furner's 'Marx's Critique of Samuel Bailey'; ‎Chapter 18. Reply to Geert Reuten; ‎Chapter 19. The Trouble with Ricardian Marxism: Comments on 'The Four Drafts of Capital: Towards a New Interpretation of the Dialectical Thought of Marx' by Enrique Dussel; ‎Bibliography; ‎Index

Summary: The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form gathers Patrick Murray's essays reinterpreting Marx and Marxian theory published since his Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988), along with a previously unpublished essay and an introduction. Murray's essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. There is no production in general; the production of wealth always involves specific social forms and purposes that matter in many ways. Marx's attention to the dynamics and far-reaching consequences of historically specific social forms - in particular those that are constitutive of the capitalist mode of production - sets him off from classical political economy and traditional Marxism. In probing Marx's dialectical accounts of the commodity, value, money, surplus value, wage labour and capital, The Mismeasure of Wealth establishes Marx's singular relevance for critical social theory today.

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The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form gathers Patrick Murray's essays reinterpreting Marx and Marxian theory published since his Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988), along with a previously unpublished essay and an introduction. Murray's essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. There is no production in general; the production of wealth always involves specific social forms and purposes that matter in many ways. Marx's attention to the dynamics and far-reaching consequences of historically specific social forms - in particular those that are constitutive of the capitalist mode of production - sets him off from classical political economy and traditional Marxism. In probing Marx's dialectical accounts of the commodity, value, money, surplus value, wage labour and capital, The Mismeasure of Wealth establishes Marx's singular relevance for critical social theory today.

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