OPE-L Value and the World Economy Today Production, Finance and Globalization Richard Westra, Alan Zuege

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Value and the World Economy Today
Production, Finance and Globalization
Richard Westra, Alan Zuege

Hardback
November 2003
264 pages



216mm x 138mm
ISBN:1403900027
£55.00.





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Description:
Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of
globally renowned scholars of international political economy and
critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for
understanding the world economy today. The book is unique in the way
that it connects literatures that have for the most part developed in
isolation from each other and therefore brings questions of theory to
bear directly upon the problems of analyzing current global trends
and formulating responses to them.

Contents:
PART I: A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE VALUE DEBATE
Value Theory and the Study of Contemporary Capitalism: A Continuing
Commitment; B.Fine
PART II: MONEY, FINANCE AND COMPETITION
The Rationality and Irrationality of Money; S.Clarke
Value, Finance and Social Classes; S.de Brunhoff
Bridging Differences: Value Theory, International Finance and the
Construction of Global Capital; D.Bryan
PART III: PRODUCTION, CRISIS AND GLOBALIZATION
Globalization: The Retreat of Capital to the 'Interstices' of the
World?; R.Westra
Value Production and Economic Crisis: A Temporal Analysis; A.Kliman
Production and Management: Marx's Dual Theory of Labour; G.Duménil & D.Lévy
Marxian Theory of the Decline of the Rate of Profit in the Postwar US
Economy; F.Moseley
When Things Go Wrong: The Political Economy of Market Breakdown; A.Freeman
PART IV: REVISITING THE THEORY OF VALUE
Some Critical Reflections on Marx's Theory of Value; A.Sinha
What Do We Learn from Value Theory?; T.T.Sekine
Marx's Value Theory and Subjectivity; R.Albritton

Author Biographies:
RICHARD WESTRA is Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Pukyong
National University, Republic of Korea. His publications include the
co-edited volumes Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises and
Globalizations and New Socialisms. He has also recently published
articles treating the future institutional configuring of socialist
societies and the current Japanese economic crisis.


ALAN ZUEGE is at the Department of Political Science, York University
in Toronto, Canada. He is co-editor of the books, Phases of
Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises and Globalizations and The
Globalization Decade: A Critical Reader, and is a contributing editor
of the Socialist Register. He has also recently published articles in
Monthly Review, Socialist Register and in the collection, Die
Strategie der 'Neuen Mitte'.