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Author Boss, Helen Harte, 1949- author.

Title Theories of surplus and transfer : parasites and producers in economic thought / Helen Boss Heslop
Published Oxon : Routledge, [2015]
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Series Routledge revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Early views of production, surplus-generation, and transfer -- Division of labor and unproductive labor in a system of natural liberty: Adam Smith's dilemma -- Immaterial prodiction from Garnier to Mill -- Mode and matter in Marx: The factory paradigm and the scope of the base -- Materiality and non-productivity under mixed socialism in the USSR -- Old Left and New Right on government as parasite -- Drawing the boundary: The main variants -- Results, not imputs
Summary First published in 1990, this is an analysis of the history of western economics from Petty to Supply-Side, through the prism of the controversies over productive labour and its product. It treats the early economists' ""productive-unproductive"" dichotomies as shorthands for many other sets of distinctions relevant for boundaries, value and welfare. Central to the debates is the question of whether the economy is said to generate a 'surplus'. Economists and politicians with views on these matters include the Physiocrats, Smith and Ricardo, Marx and his Soviet and western admirers, the margina
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 15, 2014)
Subject Economics -- History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economics.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
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