The Theory of Capitalist Development

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The Theory of Capitalist Development
File:The Theory of Capitalist Development (1942 edition).jpg
Cover of the first edition
Author Paul Sweezy
Country United States
Language English
Subject Labor theory of value
Published 1942 (Monthly Review Press)
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 398
ISBN 978-0853450795

The Theory of Capitalist Development is a 1942 book by Paul Sweezy, in which Sweezy offers a statement and defense of the labor theory of value.[1] Sweezy has been criticized for his alleged misrepresentations of Karl Marx's economic theories.

Summary

Sweezy expounds and defends the labor theory of value.[1]

Scholarly reception

Political scientist David McLellan calls Sweezy's work the best modern continuation of Marx's economic ideas.[2] Ernest Mandel accuses Sweezy of several misunderstandings of Marx, including confusing prices of production and market prices, a mistake he sees as a result of Sweezy's employment of the work of Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz,[3] a critic of Marx.[4] Mandel believes that Sweezy's misunderstandings of Marx are similar to those later made by economist Ian Steedman in his Marx after Sraffa (1977).[5]

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wolff 1991. pp. 151-152.
  2. McLellan 1995. p. 439.
  3. Mandel 1991. p. 27.
  4. Mandel 1974. p. 301.
  5. Mandel 1991. p. 9.

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