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The Composition of Capital and the Rate of Profit: A Reply to Laibman
(Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998)
In response to a critique by Laibman (1996) of earlier work (Thompson 1995) exploring the effect of technical change and accumulation on the real wage rate and thus, via the Okishio Theorem, the rate of profit, it is ...
Book Review: Hawana Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis
(Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998)
Book Review: Heterodox Economic Theories: True or False?
(Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997)
David M. Gordon: Radical Political Economist and Activist (1944-1996)
(Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1999)
David Gordon, a pioneer of radical political economics and an activist of the U.S. left, died of congestive heart failure on March 16, 1996, at the age of fifty-one. At the time of his death he was Professor of Economics ...
Technical Change, Accumulation and the Rate of Profit
(Sage Publications, 1995)
The effect of technical change and accumulation on the profit rate depends on their effect on the real wage rate. Employing a standard one-sector "circulating-capital" model, it is assumed that the wage rate is at least ...
Neither Prophets of Doom nor Facile Optimism
(Sage Publications, 1993)
This paper views the Swedish wage earner fund debate in the context of various theories about the transition to socialism. It reviews the ideas of the participants in the debate and of various theorists. The conclusion is ...
Objectivism, Relativism and the Importance of Rhetoric for Marxist Economics
(Sage Publications, 1994)
The revolution in social thought which has taken place in anthropology, sociology, history, literature and even law has been squelched in economics by both neoclassicals and Marxists. It is the purpose of this essay to ...