Labor and Value: Edited by Cyril Levitt and Rod Hay - Hardcover

Krader, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820467987 ISBN 13: 9780820467986

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Labor and Value reexamines the history of the theories of labor and value from Aristotle to the present. It seeks to combine in a systematic way the leading theories of objective and subjective value. It breaks new ground in subjecting both theories to a radical historical and anthropological critique. Set within a newly conceived theory of the orders of nature, it finds the treatment of both theories problematic in that each treats its subject matter pars pro toto. Lawrence Krader identifies both conceptual and terminological confusion in the traditional discussion of labor and value by writers within the Marxist tradition. He also demonstrates the negative consequences of abandoning an objective foundation in value theory on the part of the Austrian School in spite of its important contribution on the side of subjective value. This book revisits and deepens the discussion on labor as it was developed by Aristotle, Hegel and Marx.

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About the Author

The Author: Lawrence Krader (1919-1998) was Professor in and Director of the Institut für Ethnologie at the Freie Universität Berlin (1972-1982). He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1954. He is the author of The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx, Dialectic of Civil Society, and The Treatise of Social Labor.
The Editors: Cyril Levitt is Professor in and former Chair of the Department of Sociology, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Rod Hay is Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0820467987
• ISBN 13: 9780820467986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Levitt Cyril, Hay Rod