by Alfredo Saad Filho (Author)
About the Author
Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London. He is co-author of Marxs Capital and Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy (Pluto Pres, 2017), and numerous works on Marxist political economy, political economy of development, neoliberalism, democracy, and alternative economic policies.
About this book
Value and Crisis brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho. This book examines the labour theory of value and its implications for the nature of neoliberalism, financialisation, inflation, monetary policy, and the crises of contemporary capitalism.
Brief contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 Essays on the Theory of Value
1 Marxist Economics 15
2 The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Value 31
3 Labour, Money and ‘Labour-Money’: A Review of Marx’s Critique of John Gray’s Monetary Analysis 67
4 Capital Accumulation and the Composition of Capital 84
5 The ‘Transformation Problem’ 101
6 Transforming the Transformation Problem: Why the ‘New Interpretation’ is a Wrong Turning 118
7 The Supply of Credit Money and Capital Accumulation: A Critical View of Post-Keynesian Analysis 138
8 Inflation Theory: A Critical Literature Review and a New Research Agenda 162
Part 2 Essays on Contemporary Capitalism
9 Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction 187
10 Neoliberalism 207
11 Thirteen Things You Need to Know About Neoliberalism 218
12 Democracy against Neoliberalism 244
13 Monetary Policy and Neoliberalism 269
14 Neoliberal Development and Its Critics 289
15 Crisis in Neoliberalism or Crisis of Neoliberalism? 302
References 319
Index 349
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Book 134)
Pages: 376
Publisher: BRILL (February 14, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9004349804
ISBN-13: 978-9004349803