Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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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.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Economics.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781317620532 |
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1317620534 |
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9781315753263 |
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131575326X |
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9781317620525 |
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1317620526 |
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