As John Roemer says in his introduction to this volume, 'During the past decade, what now appears as a new species in social theory has been forming: analytically sophisticated Marxism. Its practitioners are largely inspired by Marxian questions which they pursue with contemporary tools of logic, mathematics, and model building ... These writers are, self-consciously, products of both the Marxian and non-Marxian traditions.' This volume assembles substantial and original essays, both published and unpublished, by some of the leading practitioners of 'analytical Marxism'. The essays discuss a number of the fundamental issues of Marxian thought as well as questions that conventional Marxists see no need to raise. They exemplify the ways in which analytical Marxists are beginning to reinvigorate the Marxian tradition and, in doing so, to break down the barriers that have divided it from other forms of social theory. The volume will make an excellent textbook and an ideal introduction to this new approach.
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'Analytical Marxism succeeds splendidly. The fourteen essays by eight contributors are all rigourous. Several are elegant. The collection is fruitfully interdisciplinary, with philosophy, economics, political science, history, and sociology represented.' Ethics
'Cohen, Elster, and Roemer ... have done much of what they set out to do; they have extracted the academically reputable elements of Marxism and presented them lucidly and coherently.' Alan Ryan, London Review of Books
'Cohen, Elster, and Roemer ... have done much of what they set out to do; they have extracted the academically reputable elements of Marxism and presented them lucidly and coherently.' Alan Ryan, London Review of Books
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Written by leading practitioners of "analytical Marxism," this contemporary examination of Marxist social theory utilizes logic, mathematics and model building to develop its arguments. Copublished with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.
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An interesting book, taking, as its title suggests, an analytical approach to Marxist ideas. Since there is no sense of <it>sola scriptura</it> among Marxists, every idea and assumption is open to critique (more so, even then among capitalists, for whom profit is an unquestionable Good). Tools such as game theory help bring Marxist ideas into better focus. Interestingly, many of the authors reach contradictory conclusions. As is all-to-common among contemporary social scientists, there is a tendency to obfuscate the prose with needless mathematics, but there is still quite a bit to be learned here.
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In Section I of this essay I present, in summary form, the interpretation of historical materialism which I offered in Cohen (1978a). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
collective unfreedom, surplus value accounts, differential alienation, embodied labour time, institution for labour exchange, state bureaucratic socialism, alienable productive assets, economic militancy, expropriation theory, acceptable alternative course, peasant possessors, dominant exploiting class, communist distribution, reproducible solution, socialist exploitation, preference formation process, exploitation theory, capitalist property relations, value numeraire, differential ownership, exploitation status, individual economic actors, inalienable assets, contradictory locations, new property relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Adam Smith, Gotha Program, Class-Exploitation Correspondence Principle, Credit Market Island, Labour Market Island, Ion Elster, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Ste Croix, Fundamental Marxian Theorem, Allen Wood, Credit Market Capitalism, Owners Nonowners, South Korea New!
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collective unfreedom, surplus value accounts, differential alienation, embodied labour time, institution for labour exchange, state bureaucratic socialism, alienable productive assets, economic militancy, expropriation theory, acceptable alternative course, peasant possessors, dominant exploiting class, communist distribution, reproducible solution, socialist exploitation, preference formation process, exploitation theory, capitalist property relations, value numeraire, differential ownership, exploitation status, individual economic actors, inalienable assets, contradictory locations, new property relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Adam Smith, Gotha Program, Class-Exploitation Correspondence Principle, Credit Market Island, Labour Market Island, Ion Elster, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Ste Croix, Fundamental Marxian Theorem, Allen Wood, Credit Market Capitalism, Owners Nonowners, South Korea New!
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- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Blaisdell on 5 pages
- Making Sense of Marx (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by Jon Elster in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- A General Theory of Exploitation and Class by John E. Roemer in Front Matter, page 83, and Back Matter
- Critique of the Gotha Program by Karl Marx on page 288, page 291, and page 296
- The Political Economy of Development in India: Expanded Edition with an Epilogue on the Political Economy of Reform in India by Pranab Bardhan in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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