Duplo caráter do trabalho, valor e economia capitalista. / Double character of labour, value and capitalist economy.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

This work exposes the basic conceptual structure of Marxian economics, discusses its coherence in the light of the main criticisms made to it, and tries to show its utility to the comprehension of today s capitalist economy. This is done taking a key that stresses two questions: the dual character of the labor that produces commodities, and the characterization of abstract labor as substance of value. One of the main ideas of this work is the statement that this approach allows us to treat money, capital and the capitalist economy s dynamics in a more realist and proper way than other theoretical approaches. Marx s solution to the transformation of commodities values into production prices is one of the main examples of value as a social substance, and also is one of the more criticized constructs of Marxian economics; for that reason, this discussion has here a central place. This work still tries to show the analytical utility of the conceptual framework of Marxian economics to treat several questions of today’s capitalist economy, as unequal exchange. It still argues that this framework is a foundation able to gather theoretical contributions from other approaches.

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theory of value capitalismo capitalism teoria do valor

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