Product Description: Much has been written since Capital was published about Marx's irrelevance. This has often been attributed to his unworkable method of inquiry. Going against this current, this book introduces the most hotly debated issues and evaluates them using Marx's method...read more

Provides an introduction and critique of the European Union project, arguing that an analysis focusing on production and distribution of value as the basis of the economy can illuminate the contradictions of European economic integration. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Transcending the arid formalism of present-day economic theory, Frontiers of Political Economy develops a new and accessible perspective on the world economy. Guglielmo Carchedi identifies and analyses three key features of modern capitalism: the rapidly increasing share of human labour needed for the advancement of science and technology rather than for the production of goods; the global, rather than national, nature of production, distribution and consumption; and the dominance of the oligopolies...read more

Product Description: This text offers a perspective on the nature of the relation between structures, individuals and social change. It attempts to show how the dialectical method of research can be usefully brought to bear on class analysis and on several other specific themes in the social sciences, such as the neo-Ricardian approach to economics, the application of game theory to sociology, and the compatibility of information technology with a socialist organization of the labour process...read more