Introduction CHAPTER 1. The determinations of value as historically-specific social form. Part I: materiality and social form of abstract labour CHAPTER 2. The determinations of value as historically-specific social form. Part II: production and circulation CHAPTER 3. Systematic and historical modes of explanation in the critique of political economy. A methodological contribution to the controversy over the commodity nature of money CHAPTER 4. Skilled labour and value-production. An alternative approach to a longstanding and unresolved controversy in the critique of political economy CHAPTER 5. Rethinking the determination of the value of labour-power CHAPTER 6. Extra surplus-value from innovation and the marxian critique of political economy CHAPTER 7. Cognitive commodities and the growing role of intellectual labour in value-production CHAPTER 8. A critical look at Global Value Chains: competition and globalisation in contemporary capitalism. The case of the automotive industry CHAPTER 9. The debate over the determinations of ground-rent and the implications for the comprehension of the exchange of agrarian and mining commodities on the world market CHAPTER 10. The specificity of capital accumulation in Latin America. A critique of Dependency Theory
The book presents a high-impact re-reading of core topics in the Marx and Marxist debates including: value-theory, the commodity-nature of money, complex or skilled labour, the determination of the value of labour-power and the nature of extraordinary surplus value.
The book presents a high-impact re-reading of core topics in the Marx and Marxist debates including: value theory, the commodity nature of money, complex or skilled labour, the determination of the value of labour-lă2