Echoes of Utopia : studies in the legacy of Marx /
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| Author / Creator: | Fuller, M. B. |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2000. |
| Description: | viii, 122 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Avebury series in philosophy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4436783 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Marx's Bad Idea: The Organic Composition of Capital
- Introduction
- I. The organic composition of capital
- II. Criticisms of the labour theory of value and surplus value
- III. Criticisms concerning the falling rate of profit
- IV. The Grundrisse argument about automation
- V. Conclusion
- 2. Marx's Good Idea: Overproduction, Underconsumption and Crises
- Introduction
- I. Marx on overproduction, underconsumption and crises
- II. The Keynesian response: the welfare state and "the acceptable face of capitalism"
- III. The affluent society: Galbraith as heretical Keynesian
- IV. Inflation, stagflation, globalization, automation
- V. The implications for Keynesianism
- VI. The implications for Marxism
- 3. Schumpeter and Socialism: Big is Beautiful
- Introduction
- I. Schumpeter's criticisms of Marx
- II. The viability of central planning
- III. The superiority of the socialist blueprint
- 4. Simone Weil and Marx: The Impossible Dream
- Introduction
- I. Weil's metaphysics: gravity and grace
- II. Natural and social oppression
- III. Two impossible dreams of liberty
- IV. Marx right and Marx wrong
- V. Conclusion
- 5. If I Ruled the World: "the Kitchens of the Future"
- Introduction
- I. Schumpeter's answer
- II. Weil's answer
- III. If I ruled the world
- IV. Contemporary forces
- Bibliography
- Index