Analytical Marxism / edited by John Roemer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roemer, John E.

Series:

Studies in Marxism and social theory

Studies in Marxism and social theory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marxian economics.

Communism.

Physical Description:

viii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, CB ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1986.

Summary:

A collection of essays by leading practitioners of 'analytical Marxism'.

Contents:

I Historical materialism 9

1 Forces and relations of production / G. A. Cohen 11

2 The social basis of economic development / Robert Brenner 23

3 The theory of combined and uneven development: a critique / Jon Elster 54

4 Marxist ideas in development economics: an evaluation / Pranab Bardhan 64

II Class 79

5 New directions in the Marxian theory of exploitation and class / John Roemer 81

6 What is middle about the middle class? / Erik Olin Wright 114

7 Three challenges to class / Jon Elster 141

8 Material interests, class compromise, and the transition to socialism / Adam Przeworski 162

III Method 189

9 'Rational choice' Marxism: some issues of method and substance / John Roemer 191

10 Further thoughts on Marxism, functionalism, and game theory / Jon Elster 202

11 Marxism and functional explanation / G. A. Cohen 221

IV Justice 235

12 The structure of proletarian unfreedom / G. A. Cohen 237

13 Should Marxists be interested in exploitation? / John Roemer 260

14 Marx and equality / Allen Wood 283.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 304-313.

ISBN:

0521300258

0521317312

OCLC:

12107410