John Weeks
Biographical Note
Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London, and Visiting Professor at Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Simon Mohun is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Queen Mary University of London.
Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King’s College London, and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and LUT University, Finland.
Readership
Academics and graduate students working on Marxist political economy.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Ben Fine, Simon Mohun and Alfredo Saad-Filho
Part 1 Essays on the Theory of Value
1 The Sphere of Production and the Analysis of Crisis in Capitalism
2 On the Issue of Capitalist Circulation and the Concepts Appropriate to Its Analysis
3 The Process of Accumulation and the ‘Profit-Squeeze’ Hypothesis
4 A Note on Underconsumption Theory and the Labour Theory of Value
Part 2 Essays on Development and Underdevelopment
5 The Law of Value and the Analysis of Underdevelopment
6 Epochs of Capitalism and the Progressiveness of Capital’s Expansion
7 Equilibrium, Uneven Development and the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall
8 The Expansion of Capital and Uneven Development on a World Scale
9 International Exchange and the Causes of Backwardness
10 Class Alliances and Class Struggle in Peru
Elizabeth Dore and John Weeks
11 Backwardness, Foreign Capital, and Accumulation in the Manufacturing Sector of Peru, 1954–75
John Weeks’ Academic Writings
References
Index
