| Free to Lose: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophy Contributor(s): Roemer, John E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674318765 ISBN-13: 9780674318762 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $35.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Dewey: 335.412 |
| LCCN: 87-12121 |
| Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.71 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Attacking the usefulness of such central Marxian concepts as the labor theory of value and surplus value, John Roemer reconstructs Marxian economic philosophy from the concepts of exploitation and class, showing that exploitation can be derived from a system of property relations. He then looks at the causes of the unequal distribution of wealth, including robbery and plunder, willingness to take risks, differential rates of time preference, luck, and entrepreneurship. He further examines the evolution of property systems--slave, feudal, capitalist, socialist--from the perspective of the theory of historical materialism, and ends by analyzing the properties of a social system in which ownership of productive assets in the external world is public, while ownership of internal productive assets--skills and talents--is private. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roemer, John E.: - John E. Roemer is Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University. |