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1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: NATURE AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM -- Requirements of a Social Ecology -- Nature, Labor, and Production -- The Natural Bias of Labor Productivity and Surplus Labor -- Labor and Labor Power as Natural and Social Forces -- PART II: NATURE AND CAPITALISM -- Nature, Labor, and Capitalist Production -- Capital's 'Free Appropriation' of Natural and Social Conditions -- Capitalism and Nature: A Value-form Approach -- Reconsidering Some Ecological Criticisms of Marx's Value Analysis Capitalism and Environmental Crisis -- Marx's Working-day Analysis and Environmental Crisis -- Nature and Communism -- Nature and the Historical Progressivity of Capitalism -- Nature and Capitalism's Historical Limits -- Capital, Nature, and Class Struggle -- Nature and Associated Production -- PART IV: TWO CRITIQUES -- Reassessing Schmidt's Concept of Nature in Marx -- A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism, Part I: Society, Nature, and Population -- A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism, Part II: Labor, Nature and Capital |
| Summary |
This text Marx's approach to nature, society, and environmental crisis. While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx also insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions, inclu ding the natural condition of human bodily existence. Marx's value analysis places him squarely in the camp of the growing number of ecological theorists questioning the ability of monetary and market based calculations to adequately represent the natural conditions of human production and development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Marxian economics.
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Marxian school of sociology.
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Environmental economics.
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Capitalism -- Environmental aspects
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Environmentalism.
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Capitalism -- Environmental aspects
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Environmental economics
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Environmentalism
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Marxian economics
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Marxian school of sociology
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Palgrave Connect (Online service)
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| ISBN |
9780312299651 |
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0312299656 |
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1281366722 |
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9781281366726 |
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