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Title

The law of worldwide value / by Samir Amin ; translated by Brian Pearce and Shane Mage.

Author

Amin, Samir

Publication

New York : Monthly Review Press, c2010.

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Description

144 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Suggests new approaches to Marxian analysis of the crisis of the late capitalist system of generalized, financialized, and globalized oligopolies following on the financial collapse of 2008. Sees the present crisis as a moment in the second long crisis of the capitalist system, dating from the early 1970s. Amin sees no exit from repeated crises under capitalism except the descent into barbarism. The challenge is not to escape from the crisis of capitalism, but to escape from capitalism in crisis. He reasserts historical optimism as to the socialist project, expecting a second wave of socialist attempts that will stem from the self-liberating efforts of the nations and peoples of the South and will lead to an awakening of the Northern popular classes to join the awakening of the global South. From publisher description.

Subject

• Capitalism
• Value
• Historical materialism
• Marxian economics

Note

• "Portions of this book were originally published as The Law of value and historical materialism c1978 by Monthly Review Press."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The fundamental status of the law of value -- An algebraic model of expanded reproduction -- Interest, money, and the state -- Ground rent -- Accumulation on a global scale.

ISBN

• 9781583672341
• 1583672346
• 9781583672334 (pbk.)
• 1583672338 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010046315

OCLC

• 828059546
• SCSB-12059126

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library