Conference on Marx's _Capital_

["Drewk" <Andrew_Kliman@xxxxxxx>]

The Laboratory for Social Critique

Introduces the book published in the 'Critical Knowledge' series:

AN OLD MYTH:  The Transformation of Values into Prices in Marx's 'Capital'

MAY 21, 2002, 'Centro Congressi', University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Via Salaria 113

Participating Scholars and Politicians include

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A. Callari (Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA), G. Carchedi (Univ. of Amsterdam), M. De Angelis (Univ. of East London), D. K. Foley (New School Univ., New York), A. Freeman (Univ. of Greenwich, London), P. Giussani, A. Kliman (Pace Univ., New York), G. Mazzetti (Univ. of Calabria), G. Mongiovi (St. John's Univ., New York), F. Petri (Univ. of Siena), A. Ramos, E. Screpanti (Univ. of Siena), L. Vasapollo (Univ. of Rome)

Senator P. Di Siena (Vice President, Associazione Rinnovazione Sinistra), the Honorable A. Gianni (Parliamentary Deputy, Partito della Rifondazione Comunista), the Honorable N. Nesi (President, Scientific Committee of the Partito dei Comunisti Italiani), the Honorable A. Tortorella (President, Associazione Rinnovazione Sinistra), Senator C. Salvi (President, Associazione Socialismo 2000

 

 

 

MORNING SESSION (9:30 to 13:00)

Chair:  L. Vasapollo
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9:30   Introduction by L. Vasapollo
10:00  Interventions by the authors:  G. Carchedi, 

       A. Freeman, P. Giussani, A. Kliman, A. Ramos

12:00  The authors reply to the public's questions

 

 

AFTERNOON SESSION (14:30 to 18:00) 

Chair: L. Vasapollo
'The Transformation:  Simultaneism or Temporalism?'

(Roundtable Discussion)
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14:30   The Roundtable will be opened by A. Kliman,

        who will summarize the morning session 
15:00   Interventions by scholars and politicians
17:30   Answers and concluding remarks by A. Freeman

18:00   Conclusions by L. Vasapollo

 

The Conference is organized in such a way that the authors, together with the invited scholars and politicians, will provide an answer to the following questions:

1. Has Marx's transformation procedure been proven inconsistent?

2. Is Bortkiewicz's interpretation of Marx's value theory Marx's own theory?

3. Is it true that simultaneous valuation leads necessarily to an interpretation of exploitation purely in physical terms? If this is true, is this valuation compatible with Marx's theory of exploitation in terms of surplus labour?

4. Has Marx's theory of the tendential fall in the profit rate been disproved?

 

 

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An Old Myth:  The Transformation of Values into Prices in Marx's Capital

Edited by L. Vasapollo; essays by G. Carchedi, A. Freeman, P. Giussani, A. Kliman, and A. Ramos

Published by the LABORATORIO PER LA CRITICA SOCIALE
del Centro Studi Trasformazioni Economico-Sociali (CESTES-PROTEO)

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