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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Marxist economics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The adherents of Marxian economics, particularly in academia, distinguish it from Marxism as a political ideology, arguing that Marx's approach to understanding the economy is an intellectually valuable one, independent of Marx's advocacy for revolutionary socialism or the inevitability of proletarian revolution.
To some, Marxian economics may be viewed not as an all-encompassing approach, but as one important element in an analytical toolset--perhaps part of a broader category of heterodox economics or radical political economy.
Economics, which focuses on measurable variables, is broadly divided into two main branches: microeconomics, which deals with individual agents, such as households and businesses, and macroeconomics, which considers the economy as a whole, in which case it considers aggregate supply and demand for money, capital and commodities.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Marxist economics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Marx drew on Hegel's philosophy, the political economy of Adam Smith, Ricardian economics, and 19th century French socialism to develop a critique of society which he claimed was both scientific and revolutionary.
He critiqued Smith and Ricardo, on the other hand, for not realizing their economic concepts reflected capitalist institutions, not innate natural properties of mankind, and could not be applied unchanged to all societies.
Marx's theories of business cycles; of economic growth and development, especially in two sector models; and of the declining rate of profit are other important elements of Marxist economics.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ma/Marxist_economics   (1187 words)

  
 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS WORKSHOP
US Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE): provides a holistic and comprehensive venue for the educational challenge of communicating the scope of the economic, social and environmental crises we as a nation are facing (causing) and the policy options we have available for dealing with them.
Journal of Economic Issues: JEI is an international journal of institutional and evolutionary economics, publishing articles that deal with basic economic problems, economic policy, methodology, the organization and control of economies, and specialized fields of economics.
Economics and Philosophy: The disciplines of economics and philosophy each possess their own special analytical methods, whose combination is powerful and fruitful.
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /gschnedr/WORKSHOP.htm   (5456 words)

  
 Marxist Economics
Marxist economics is a school of thought in economics which has developed from the writings of Karl Marx (1818-1883).
While many Marxists emphasise its importance the 'rational choice marxists' have recently argued that it is a burden preventing Marxism becoming a modern social science which they argue it would require it to embrace methodological individualism and rationality, that is using the tools of neoclassical economic analysis.
Most of the recent developments in Marxist economics can be seen as part of a revival in the interest in the subject due to changed economic circumstances in the 1970s.
carecon.org.uk /Users/paul/MARXIST.htm   (2191 words)

  
 MARXIAN ECONOMICS
Soon after the death of Karl Marx, a Marxian school of economics emerged under the leadership of Marx's inner circle of companions and co-writers, notably Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky, both of whom were German.
Specifically, Bernstein (1899) challenged the Marxian notion that the economic breakdown of capitalism was "inevitable" and thus if socialism is to exist, it must be a conscious choice, channeled through the political end educational system, rather than a matter of preparing for the "inevitable" revolution.
Bukharin's "market-based" New Economic Policy, where peasants were allowed to market and keep the surplus of their own production, was attempted under Lenin in 1921 With the rise of Stalin, the NEP was scrapped, the agricultural sector brought to heel with terror and collectivisation, and State-led industrialization (and Preobrazhensky himself) came back into vogue.
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 The Chronicle: 1/24/2003: Taking On 'Rational Man'
Not all the rebels are Marxists, although most do charge that neoclassical economists refuse to admit that their approach is "sycophantic to capitalism," as Steve Keen puts it.
The second vice is "flboard economics": "endless thinking about imaginary economies that don't ever have anything to do with the world." In her view, "that's not science; that's just chess problems." A genuine science like physics, she says, would observe and describe a phenomenon long before even venturing to model it.
Neoclassical economics is "a pretty baggy framework, and a lot that goes on in it might not be quite what used to be thought of as neoclassical economics," says the Stanford University scholar, who is regarded as an architect of the mathematization of modern economics.
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 Marxist
Marx’s counterpart, Frederick Engels, best demonstrated the primacy of economic theory in Marxism’s worldview when he declared, "the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men’s brains, not in man’s better insight into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange.
Marxists believe that the proletariat (those without property) and the bourgeois (those who own private property and/or the tools of production) are clashing within the framework of dialectical materialism and that their clash eventually will result in a new, more highly evolved synthesis.
What economic form will follow communism will be determined by the eternal workings of the dialectic, but Marxists are hoping that once communism finally arrives it will remain for many, many years—some Marxists place the figure at millions of years.
www.schwarzreport.org /Essays/M-L_Summaries/economics.htm   (755 words)

  
 Karl Marx: Economist or Revolutionary | libcom.org
For example, the debate between those Marxists who base themselves on Marx's comments on underconsumption and those who base themselves on his discussion of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall has been going around in circles for over forty years and is nowhere near resolution.
But where Luxemburg and these other Marxists were content with the observation that the model would (or would not) automatically generate contradictions and therefore that crisis was (or was not) inevitable under capitalism, the planners would use the model to help them figure out what adjustments could be made so that accumulation could proceed smoothly.
When other Marxists began to attack Sweezy, his abandonment of Marx and his embrace of a Keynesian crisis theory of inadequate demand was one of their first points of departure.
libcom.org /library/karl-marx-economist-or-revolutionary-cleaver   (11399 words)

  
 Marxian economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The adherents of Marxian economics, particularly in academia, distinguish it from Marxism as a political ideology, arguing that Marx's approach to understanding the economy is intellectually valuable per se, independent of Marx's advocacy for revolutionary socialism or the inevitability of proletarian revolution.
This economic-based theory of surplus population is often labeled as Marx's theory of the reserve army of labour.
The most mature version of his theory, presented in On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, was based on a labor theory of value in which the value of any produced object is equal to the labor embodied in the objected.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marxist_economics   (1320 words)

  
 Marxist Economics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Marxist, neoclassical, and Keynesian economics all have their roots in the "Classical Political Economy" of the early 19th century, but since the later nineteenth century they have developed in different ways.
Neoclassical and Keynesian economics, whatever their differences, have remained closer together than either is to Marxist economics.
Thus, Marxist economics has as strong (or weak) a case as ever where its analysis of capitalism is concerned.
william-king.www.drexel.edu /top/prin/txt/marx/marx0.html   (188 words)

  
 marxist views of literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Marxist aesthetics is not flourishing in today's consumerist society, but continues to ask responsible questions.
Absurd discontinuities of discourse, the pared-down characterization, the plotless depiction of aimless lives — all these are needed to shake audiences from the comfortable notion that the horrors and degradations of the twentieth century have left the world unchanged.
Though the Marxist is one of the most vigorous and varied of twentieth century schools of aesthetics, its bases of evaluation are difficult to establish.
www.textetc.com /theory/marxist-views.html   (2735 words)

  
 Custom essay on Economics / Keynesian Economics - Essay Empire
This is as it should be: I am not a supporter of Marxist economics; but when I want to learn about Marxist economics, I find it much more helpful to consult Marxists than anti-Marxists.
Economics is an evolutionary science and, therefore, is protean.
Economics had failed to keep pace with the developments of science, of government, of changes in the marketplace, of organization by groups, and in general with institutional developments.
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 Karl Marx: Economist or Revolutionary?
(1) This is especially true in economics where, until recently, discussion of Marx and the Marxist tradition was largely confined to courses in the history of economic thought and in the economic history of the Soviet Union.
The alternative to the economic interpretation of Marx that I find the most useful is the reading of his concepts and theories as moments of his political analysis of capitalism as class struggle.
As we have seen, Baran and Sweezy, like many of their generation of Marxists, considered those workers who succeeded in forcing capital to have recourse to a productivity deal, to be bought off, even participants in the imperial order.
www.eco.utexas.edu /facstaff/Cleaver/MarxEcoorRev.html   (11750 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Politics: Socialism: Marxism
Marxist Criticism - An academic summary of current Marxist criticism covering George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althuser, and other major critics and thinkers in this school.
Marxist Media Theory - These are lecture notes for an undergraduate course on Media Education by Daniel Chandler.
Marxist writers has information on Marxists from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels to Che Guevara to Vladimir Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg.
dmoz.org /Society/Politics/Socialism/Marxism   (786 words)

  
 Marxist Theory
A solid understanding of Marxist theory is vital in order to cut through the propaganda of the ruling class and come to a class perspective and class solution for the problems facing workers and youth today.
This section deals with the major aspects of Marxist theory: dialectical materialism, historical materialism, Marxist economics, the class nature of the USSR, the colonial revolution, and more.
It was written as part of a defense of Marxism against a middle class revisionist tendency in the American Trotskyist movement in the late 1930s, which attempted to challenge its basic principles.
www.newyouth.com /archives/marxisttheory.asp   (1634 words)

  
 FIGHTBACK: Marxist Philosophy
The three articles on the fundamental aspects of Marxism, Marxist Economics, Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism were originally published separately in the 1970s.
The purpose is to provide a basic explanation of the fundamental ideas of Marxism with a guide to further reading and points to help organise discussion groups around these ideas.
It was written as part of a defence of Marxism against a middle class revisionist tendency in the American Trotskyist movement in the late 1930s, which attempted to challenge its basic principles.
www.marxist.ca /philosophy.htm   (389 words)

  
 Economics 249: Marxist and Post-Marxist Economics
The first, on Marxist economics, will be handed out on Sept. 20 and due Sept. 27; the second will be handed out on Oct. 11, due Oct. 18.
Assignments which are handed in on time may be rewritten and resubmitted within a week of being handed back; the grade will then be an average of the original and rewrite grades.
This paper could either be an extended essay a topic related to the course readings, supplemented by other readings on the topic, or a paper presenting your research on a topic in radical political economics not covered in class.
www.wellesley.edu /Economics/matthaei/249_syllabus.html   (2243 words)

  
 Marxism FAQ
What is the attitude of Marxists to small farmers and business people?
A brilliant summary of the history and role of religion from a Marxist perspective.
A look at the Marxist view of religion and religious people in the socialist movement.
www.newyouth.com /archives/theory/marxismfaq.asp   (355 words)

  
 short introduction to marxist economics
An ever-larger proportion of the working class is being driven below the poverty level, with growing numbers of homeless people sleeping in the streets of the nation’s big cities.
Karl Marx was the first to come up with a fully consistent economic explanation of how the capitalist economic system works — and why it doesn’t work.
While it’s beyond the scope of this newspaper article to attempt to present all of Marx’s economic theory there, we can point the reader in the right direction by providing a brief introduction of a few basic ideas.
www.geocities.com /youth4sa/economics.html   (1286 words)

  
 Marxist Economics Custom Essay samples, Economics - Free samples: college essays, admission, argumentive essays - Essay ...
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Marx was later ordered to leave Paris because of revolutionary activities and settled in Brussels.
This collaboration leads to the writing on the Communist Manifesto (Rader, M. This writing leads too many Marxist revolutions throughout Europe.
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 Socialist Appeal - Marxist Economics
Introduction to Marxist Economics - Alan Woods and Rob Sewell
The Class Struggle and the Economic Cycle - Alan Woods and Ted Grant
Level 5: Marxist Analyses of Economic Processes and Theories in Recent History
www.socialistappeal.org /content/view/198/81   (209 words)

  
 Book Listing by Subject: Socialist and Marxist Economics (Economics Network)
Marxian Economics (John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman (Eds.))
Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory (John E. Roemer)
The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics (Alan Freeman, Andrew Kliman, Julian Wells (Eds.))
www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk /books/SocialistandMarxist.htm   (274 words)

  
 The Red Flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Originally a speech to the General Council of the International Workingmens Association, this pamphlet is an elementary introduction to Marxist economics, dealing with some of the commonplaces of mainstream economics, and the Marxist answer to them.
Lots of people are daunted by Capital's size and legendary "Germanic" style of writing.
You almost always get more out of serious books that way anyway.
www.comcen.com.au /%7Emarcn/redflag/topics/economics.html   (137 words)

  
 Marxist Economics 101 (A Rough Summary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As a result, the rate of profit will tend to decline.
But this further decreases total wages and thus demand for consumer goods, and a worse economic crisis than before is the result.
Ernest Mandel, An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory.
www.wku.edu /~jan.garrett/303/marxecon.htm   (569 words)

  
 Introductions to Marxism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Socialism from Below how this confusion came about, as a consequence of the defeat of the Russian revolution during the 1920s, and the consequences the defeat had for the international communist movement.
A brief and straightforward introduction to Marxist theory that also takes account of the contributions of later Marxists
John Molyneux What is the real Marxist tradition 1983.
www.anu.edu.au /polsci/marx/intros.html   (314 words)

  
 Mick Brooks speaking on Marxist economics (part 2) | Ourmedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mick Brooks speaking on Marxist economics (part 2)
File size: 9.4 MB Mick Brooks speaking on Marxist economics, April 2006, West London
Mick Brooks speaking on Marxist economics (part 3)
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