Rubin’s Legacy : Essays on Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value and Money / edited by Fred Moseley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moseley, Fred, editor.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 376.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 376

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Intellectual History.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Essays on Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value and Money

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

I.I. Rubin was the most important economist in the Soviet Union in the 192s and is still influential today in Marxian scholarship around the world. This book presents assessments of Rubin’s legacy for Marxian scholarship by 1 Marx scholars from six different countries and will be essential reading for Marx-Rubin scholars going forward. The main controversy continues to be the relative significance of production and circulation in the determination of the value of commodities. A majority of authors in this book conclude that Rubin’s predominant view in the later editions of his book was that value is determined in production and realized in circulation, which is contrary to the popular value-form interpretation of Rubin’s book.

Contents:

Front Cover

‎Half-Title Page

‎Series Title Page

‎Title Page

‎Copyright Page

‎Contents

‎Notes on Contributors

‎Introduction (Moseley)

‎1. Rubin's Life

‎2. Rubin's Response to the Controversy over His Book in the 1920s

‎2.1. Chapter 8

‎2.2. Quantitative Part of Chapter 8

‎2.3. Qualitative Part of Chapter 8

‎2.4. Chapter 14

‎2.5. Qualitative Part of Chapter 14

‎2.6. Quantitative Part of Chapter 14

‎2.7. Chapter 16

‎3. Review of the Literature on Rubin's Book in English

‎References

‎4. Introduction to the Chapters in This Book

‎1. Patrick Murray, 'Limitations to Rubin's Advances from "Traditional Marxism"'

‎2. Guido Starosta, 'Revisiting Rubin's Thought on Production, Circulation and Value: New Evidence from His Previously Unpublished Writings'

‎3. Stavros Mavroudeas, 'Was Rubin a "Rubinist"?'

‎4. Peter Green, 'Rubin on Abstract Labour and Value'

‎5. Fred Moseley, 'The Concept of Equilibrium in Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Value and Money'

‎6. Martha Campbell, 'Why Labour Is the Substance of Value'

‎7. Ryuji Sasaki, 'Rubin's Theory of Market Value and Equilibrium'

‎8. Kei Ehara, 'Rubin and the Complex Labour Debate'

‎9. Susumu Takenaga, 'How Rubin's Conception of Abstract Labour Disseminated to Japan'

‎10. Paula Rauhala, 'Rubin in Germany: On the Reception of Rubin's Ideas in East and West Germany (1949-89)'

‎Chapter 1. Limitations to Isaak Illich Rubin's Advances from 'Traditional Marxism' (Murray)

‎Which of Marx's Texts Were Available to Rubin?

‎Rubin's Disclosure of 'Sociological' Implications of Marx's Theory of Value and Money

‎Rubin and the 'Bourgeois Horizon'

‎1. Interpreting Marx's Theory of Value and Money

‎1.1. 'Abstract Labor': The Substance of Value

‎1.2. The Magnitude of Value.

‎1.3. The Value-Form: Money, Value's Necessary Form of Appearance

‎2. Rubin's 'Traditional Marxist' Understanding of Marx's Historical Materialism

‎3. Rubin's Adoption of the 'Successive Approximations' Interpretation of Marx's Method in Capital

‎Closing Remark

‎Chapter 2. Revisiting Rubin's Thought on Production, Circulation and Value: New Evidence from His Previously Unpublished Writings (Starosta)

‎1. Introduction

‎2. Production, Circulation and Value in Rubin's Writings from the Early 1920s

‎2.1. The Second Edition of the Essays on Value

‎2.2. The Essays on Money (Part I)

‎3. Rubin's Theoretical Innovations after the Debate over the Second Edition of the Essays on Value: The Role of the Second Part of the Essays on Money

‎3.1. The Quantitative Determination of Value

‎3.2. The Qualitative Determination of Value

‎4. Concluding Remarks

‎Chapter 3. Was I.I. Rubin a 'Rubinist'? (Mavroudeas)

‎2. Rubin's Contribution: Advances and Contradictions

‎3. Circulationism in the 1980s and the Old 'Rubinists'

‎4. The Newer 'Rubinists'

‎5. By Way of Conclusions

‎Chapter 4. Rubin on Abstract Labour and Value (Green)

‎2. Three Theoretical Binaries

‎2.1. The Qualitative and Quantitative

‎2.2. The Distinction between the Material-Technical and the Social

‎2.3. Content and Form (and the Three Equalisations)

‎3. Abstract Labour and the Physiological Definition

‎4. The Strengths and Weaknesses of Rubin on Abstract Labour

‎5. Abstract Labour in Production and Exchange

‎Chapter 5. The Importance of Equilibrium in Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Value and Money (Moseley)

‎1. Equilibrium in Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Value.

‎1.1. Chapter 8: Basic Characteristics of Marx's Theory of Value

‎1.2. Chapter 9: Value as the Regulator of Production

‎1.3. Chapter 11: Equality of Commodities and Equality of Labor

‎1.4. Chapter 16: Socially-Necessary Labor

‎1.5. Chapter 17: Value and Social Need

‎1.6. Chapter 18: Value and Production Price

‎2. Equilibrium in Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Money

‎2.1. Chapter 5 ('Money and Abstract-Social Labor')

‎2.2. Chapter 6 ('Measure of Value')

‎3. Conclusion

‎Appendix: Equilibrium in the Soviet Debate over Rubin's Interpretation in the 1920s

‎Chapter 6. Why Is Labour the Substance of Value (Campbell)

‎2. Capital, Section 1 - the Derivation of Labour from Exchange Value

‎3. Rubin on the Connections between Value and Labour

‎3.1. Magnitude - Proportional Production and Marx's Letter to Kugelmann

‎3.1.1. The Method of Science - the Wage Form Example

‎3.1.2. Returning to Rubin

‎3.2. Value's Form and Substance

‎3.3. Summary of Rubin's Connections between Value and Labour - Three Illusions of Capitalism

‎4. Producing Value Is Producing Surplus Value

‎Chapter 7. Rubin's Interpretation of Marx's Theory of Market Value (Sasaki)

‎1. Problems Dealt with in the Theory of Market Value

‎2. Rubin's Interpretation of Marx's Theory of Market Value and Demand

‎2.1. Influence of Technical Structure

‎2.2. Influence of the Elasticity of Demand

‎3. The Limitations of Rubin's Interpretation

‎3.1. Conceptual Confusion

‎3.2. Theory of Equilibrium

‎Chapter 8. Rubin and the Complex Labour Debate (Ehara)

‎Introduction

‎1. Marx on Complex Labour

‎2. Classical Debate: Böhm-Bawerk, Hilferding, and Bernstein

‎2.1. Böhm-Bawerk and Hilferding

‎2.2. Hilferding and Bernstein

‎3. Rubin on Complex Labour.

‎3.1. An Overview

‎3.2. Complex Labour and Abstract Labour

‎3.3. 'Useless Expenditure of Labour' in Complex Labour

‎Conclusion

‎Chapter 9. How Rubin's Conception of Abstract Labour Disseminated to Japan (Takenaga)

‎1. Foreword

‎2. Controversy in the Soviet Union and Marxist Economics in Japan during the Interwar Period

‎3. A Quarter of Century after the War - Formation of a Unique Academic World of Marxist Economy and Rubin

‎4. Japanese Marxist Economics after the 1970s and Rubin

‎5. Afterword

‎Supplement: Rubin's Theory of Abstract Labour and the Uno School in Japan

‎Primary Literature (All Japanese Translations with Bibliographic Data Rewritten in English)

‎Secondary Literature in Japanese (Bibliographical Data Translated in English)

‎Secondary Literature in Foreign Languages

‎Chapter 10. Isaak Rubin in Germany: On the Reception of Rubin's Ideas in East and West Germany (1949-89) (Rauhala)

‎1. Background: Rubin and Germany

‎2. Rubin in West Germany

‎2.1. Rosdolsky, Neusüss-Fögen, and Projekt Klassenanalyse

‎2.2. The Neue Marx-Lektüre: Followers of Rubin?

‎3. East Germany: Meißner, Širokorad, and Tuchscheerer

‎4. Differences and Commonalities between East and West Germany

‎Acknowledgements

‎Archival Sources

‎Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-75553-5

OCLC:

1590083967

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004755536 DOI