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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
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
Alan Freeman, Money, Labor, and Logic: a critical comparison 155
Andrew Kliman, On Capitalism’s Historical Specificity and Price Determination: comments on the value-form paradigm 177
Michael Posner and Maya Gonzalez, Capitalist Production and Social Form: the paradox of the value-form paradigm 197
Patrick Murray, Avoiding Bad Abstractions: a defense of co-constitutive value-form theory 217
Book Review
Ian J. Seda-Irizarry, Review of Andrew Kliman, Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”: a refutation of the myth of inconsistency 249
The Economic Crisis: a call for papers 254