First published in 1984. This study critically examines the conceptions of social class employed by Marx and by modern Marxist writers, to probe their problematic areas and to propose certain modifications to those conception. The author also tests the conclusions deriving from this theoretical reflection against the task of analysing some aspects of the development of class relations in a particular social formation in Britain. This title will be of interest to students of philosophy and ...

Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts schien es ausgemacht: Der kapitalistische Markt hatte über die Planwirtschaft gesiegt. Versuche, mittels rationaler Planung die kapitalistischen Länder "einzuholen und zu überholen", waren bereits zwei Jahrzehnte zuvor gescheitert. Planwirtschaftliche Modelle schienen für immer abgeschrieben, hatten sie sich doch in der Praxis als ökonomisch undurchführbar und politisch repressiv erwiesen. Allerdings ist eine Beschäftigung mit der Idee einer geplanten sozialistisc...

This monograph examines the domain of classical political economy using the methodologies developed in recent years both by the new discipline of econo-physics and by computing science. This approach is used to re-examine the classical subdivisions of political economy: production, exchange, distribution and finance.The book begins by examining the most basic feature of economic life – production – and asks what it is about physical laws that allows production to take place. How is...