Weeks: Capital And Exploitation (paper) - Softcover

Weeks, J

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9780691003665: Weeks: Capital And Exploitation (paper)

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ISBN 10: 0691003661 ISBN 13: 9780691003665

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

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Professor Weeks proposes that the key to Marx's critique of capitalist society is the labor theory of value. A commodity-producing society, he argues, necessarily gives rise to a capitalist society, so that commodity production and the exploitation of labor are inseparably linked.

Originally published in 1982.

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About the Author:

John. F. Weeks is Professor of International Politics and Economics at MIddlebury College. An internationally recognized development economist with extensive policy-related work in developing countries including Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, Jamaica, Peru, and Nicaragua, he has served as consultant for most of the major multilateral agencies, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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