Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1

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Critique of Political Economy

Volume 1, September 2011 ISSN 1940-3062

Editors: Andrew Kliman and Alan Freeman

Critique of Political Economy is published by the International Working Group on Value Theory (IWGVT)

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Contents

Editors’ Note

Introducing COPE 1

Articles

David E. Kaun, Nature and Significance of Increasing “Economic Freedom” Around the World: a skeptical view 5

Andrew Kliman, Marx’s Reproduction Schemes as an Unbalanced-Growth Model 33

Ali Murat Özdemir and Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir, Law, Labor, and Society in Turkey: the new Labor Act in a wider social context 63

Nick Potts, Valuation in the Presence of Stocks of Commodities: exploring the temporal single-system interpretation of Marx 89

Review Essay

Geoff Tily, Another “Useful Fiction”?: A review essay on Backhouse & Bateman, The Cambridge Companion to Keynes 121

Symposium on the Value-Form Paradigm

Introductory Note 153