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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792734103321

Autore

Perelman Michael

Titolo

Classical political economy : primitive accumulation and the social division of labor / / Michael Perelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2013

ISBN

1-4725-5367-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Collana

Bloomsbury academic collectons: economics

Disciplina

330.15/3

Soggetti

Capitalism - History

Classical school of economics - History

Division of labor - History

Economics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published in 1984 by Rowman & Allanheld.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction: Dark Designs -- 1. Primitive Accumulation -- 2. A Great Beginning -- 3. Sir James Steuart's Secret History of Primitive Accumulation -- 4. The Classics as Cossacks: Classical Political Economy Versus the Working Class -- 5. The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith -- 6. Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor -- 7. The Counterattack -- 8. Notes on Lenin and the Forging of Revolutionary Smithianism -- Epilogue -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Classical Political Economy addresses the question of what determines the social division of labour, the division of society into independent firms and industries and develops the theoretical implications of primitive accumulation. It also offers a significantly different interpretation of classical political economy, demonstrating that this school of thought supported the process of primitive accumulation. Classical political economy presents an imposing facade. For more than two centuries, the accepted doctrine dictates that a market generates forces that provide the most efficient method for organising production. This laissez faire approach is an ideology that gives capital absolute freedom of action, and yet called for intervention to coerce people to do things that they would not otherwise do. Classical political



economy therefore encouraged policies that would hinder people's ability to produce for their own needs. Michael Perelman, however, in this innovative take on the subject, seeks to challenge the ideologies that would allow things to continue in this line unchecked."--Bloomsbury Publishing.