A wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with Marx's key insights in political economy and the historical materialist method
Murray’s essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. 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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| Acknowledgements |
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Notes on
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| Introduction: Putting the Spotlight on Social Form and Purpose |
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1 Value, Money and Capital in Hegel and Marx |
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55 | (14) |
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2 Redoubled Empiricism: The Place of Social Form and Formal Causality in Marxian Theory |
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69 | (26) |
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3 Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy |
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95 | (25) |
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4 Marx's `Truly Social' Labour Theory of Value: Part I, Abstract Labour in Marxian Value Theory |
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120 | (36) |
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5 Marx's `Truly Social' Labour Theory of Value: Part II, How is Labour That is under the Sway of Capital Actually Abstract? |
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156 | (33) |
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6 The Grammar of Value: A Close Look at Marx's Critique of Samuel Bailey |
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189 | (31) |
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7 Unavoidable Crises: Reflections on Backhaus and the Development of Marx's Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse |
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220 | (29) |
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8 The Necessity of Money: How Hegel Helped Marx Surpass Ricardo's Theory of Value |
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249 | (28) |
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9 Money as Displaced Social Form: Why Value Cannot be Independent of Price |
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277 | (17) |
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10 The Social and Material Transformation of Production by Capital: Formal and Real Subsumption in Capital, Volume I |
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294 | (31) |
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11 The Place of `The Results of the Immediate Production Process' in Capital |
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325 | (16) |
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12 Beyond the `Commerce and Industry' Picture of Capital |
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341 | (32) |
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13 The Secret of Capital's Self-Valorisation `Laid Bare': How Hegel Helped Marx to Overturn Ricardo's Theory of Profit |
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373 | (25) |
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14 The Illusion of the Economic: The Trinity Formula and the `Religion of Everyday Life' |
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398 | (27) |
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PART 2 Critical Engagements |
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15 Avoiding Bad Abstractions: A Defence of Co-constitutive Value-Form Theory |
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425 | (18) |
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16 The New Giant's Staircase |
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443 | (22) |
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17 In Defence of the `Third Thing Argument': A Reply to James Furner's `Marx's Critique of Samuel Bailey' |
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465 | (20) |
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485 | (20) |
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19 The Trouble with Ricardian Marxism: Comments on `The Four Drafts of Capital: Towards a New Interpretation of the Dialectical Thought of Marx' |
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505 | (12) |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Patrick Murray, Ph.D. (1979), St. Louis University, is Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. He is author of Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (Humanities, 1988) and editor of Reflections on Commercial Life (Routledge, 1997).
