The mismeasure of wealth : essays on Marx and social form / by Patrick Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Patrick, 1948- author.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 126.

Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 126

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Marxist.

Marxian economics.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form gathers Patrick Murray’s essays reinterpreting Marx and Marxian theory published since his Marx’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988), along with a previously unpublished essay and an introduction. Murray’s essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. There is no production in general; the production of wealth always involves specific social forms and purposes that matter in many ways. Marx’s attention to the dynamics and far-reaching consequences of historically specific social forms – in particular those that are constitutive of the capitalist mode of production – sets him off from classical political economy and traditional Marxism. In probing Marx’s dialectical accounts of the commodity, value, money, surplus value, wage labour and capital, The Mismeasure of Wealth establishes Marx’s singular relevance for critical social theory today.

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction: Putting the Spotlight on Social Form and Purpose

Value, Money and Capital in Hegel and Marx

Redoubled Empiricism: The Place of Social Form and Formal Causality in Marxian Theory

Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy

Marx’s ‘Truly Social’ Labour Theory of Value: Part I, Abstract Labour in Marxian Value Theory

Marx’s ‘Truly Social’ Labour Theory of Value: Part II, How is Labour That is under the Sway of Capital Actually Abstract?

The Grammar of Value: A Close Look at Marx’s Critique of Samuel Bailey

Unavoidable Crises: Reflections on Backhaus and the Development of Marx’s Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse

The Necessity of Money: How Hegel Helped Marx Surpass Ricardo’s Theory of Value

Money as Displaced Social Form: Why Value Cannot be Independent of Price

The Social and Material Transformation of Production by Capital: Formal and Real Subsumption in Capital, Volume I

The Place of ‘The Results of the Immediate Production Process’ in Capital

Beyond the ‘Commerce and Industry’ Picture of Capital

The Secret of Capital’s Self-Valorisation ‘Laid Bare’: How Hegel Helped Marx to Overturn Ricardo’s Theory of Profit

The Illusion of the Economic: The Trinity Formula and the ‘Religion of Everyday Life’

Avoiding Bad Abstractions: A Defence of Co-constitutive Value-Form Theory

The New Giant’s Staircase

In Defence of the ‘Third Thing Argument’: A Reply to James Furner’s ‘Marx’s Critique of Samuel Bailey’

Reply to Geert Reuten

The Trouble with Ricardian Marxism: Comments on ‘The Four Drafts of Capital: Towards a New Interpretation of the Dialectical Thought of Marx’ by Enrique Dussel

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-32607-3

OCLC:

956342228

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004326071 DOI