Knowledge, Class, & Economics: Marxism without Guarantees Theodore Burczak, Ed.

Knowledge, Class, & Economics: Marxism without Guarantees 
Theodore Burczak, Robert Garnett, and Richard McIntyre, Editors

Condition:  Former library book in VG condition, has inside cover library markings, and the text interior is very clean.
514 pages 1 lb 13 oz.  ISBN 

This book presents a broad, reflective survey of the "Amherst school" of non-determinist Marxist political economy: its elemental concepts, origins, and future prospects, and the pathways explored in its 40-year evolution. The volume's original essays reflect the range of projects and perspectives that comprise the school and it's defining ideas., Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume's 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the Amherst School

Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction:
Marxism without guarantees Richard McIntyre, Theodore Burczak, and Robert Garnett Contributors 

Part I: Knowledge, class, and economics
Chapter One A Conversation with Rick Wolff Richard McIntyre 

Part II: Economics without guarantees 
Chapter Two Strangers in a Strange Land: A Marxian Critique of Economics David F. Ruccio 
Chapter Three Marxian Economics without Teleology: The Big New Life of Class Bruce Norton 
Chapter Four Class-Analytic Marxism and the Recovery of the Marxian Theory of Enterprise Erik Olsen 
Chapter Five Uncertainty and Overdetermination Donald W. Katzner 
Chapter Six Catallactic Marxism: Marx, Hayek, and the Market Ted Burczak 

Part III: Labor, value, and class 
Chapter Seven Class and Overdetermination: Value Theory and the Core of Resnick and Wolff''s Marxism Bruce Roberts 
Chapter Eight Wolff and Resnick''s Interpretation of Marx''s Theory of Value and Surplus-Value: Where''s the Money? Fred Moseley 
Chapter Nine Rethinking Labor: Surplus, Class, and Justice Faruk Eray Düzenli 

Part IV: Heretical materialism 
Chapter Ten The Last Instance: Resnick and Wolff at the Point of Heresy Warren Montag 
Chapter Eleven Aleatory Marxism: Resnick, Wolff, and the Revivification of Althusser Joseph W. Childers 
Chapter Twelve Process: Tracing Connections and Consequences Yahya M. Madra 

Part V: Appraising the postmodern turn 
Chapter Thirteen Marxism''s Double Task: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Postmodernism Jan Rehmann 
Chapter Fourteen Overdetermination: The Ethical Moment George DeMartino 
Chapter Fifteen The Cost of Anti-Essentialism Paul Smith 
Chapter Sixteen Marxism and Postmodernism: Our Goal is to Learn from One Another Richard D. Wolff 

Part VI: Postcolonial Marx 
Chapter Seventeen Global Marx? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 
Chapter Eighteen Primitive Accumulation and Historical Inevitability: A Postcolonial Critique Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, and Anup Dhar Chapter Nineteen Draining the "Blood Energy": Destruction of Independent Production and Creation of Migrant Workers in Post-Reform China Joseph Medley and Lorrayne Carroll 
Chapter Twenty Problematizing the Global Economy: Financialization and the "Feudalization" of Capital Rajesh Bhattacharya and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry Chapter Twenty One Reproduction of Noncapital: A Marxian Perspective on the Informal Economy in India Snehashish Bhattacharya 

Part VII: Capitalism and class analysis 
Chapter Twenty Two Management Ideologies and the Class Structure of Capitalist Enterprises: Shareholderism vs. Stakeholderism at Scott Paper Company Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre 
Chapter Twenty Three Lewis L. Lorwin''s "Five-Year Plan for the World": A Subsumed Class Response to the Crises of the 1930s Claude Misukiewicz 

Part VIII: Communism without guarantees 
Chapter Twenty Four Bad Communisms Maliha Safri and Kenan Erçel 
Chapter Twenty Five Hope without Guarantees: Overdeterminist Anti-Capitalism amidst Neoliberal Precarity Ellen Russell 

Part IX: Knowledge and class in everyday life 
Chapter Twenty Six The Work of Sex Harriet Fraad 
Chapter Twenty Seven Homelessness as Violence: Bad People, Bad Policy, or Overdetermined Social Processes? Vincent Lyon-Callo 
Chapter Twenty Eight Family Farms, Class, and the Future of Food Elizabeth Ramey 
Chapter Twenty Nine A Long Shadow and Undiscovered Country: Notes on the Class Analysis of Education Masato Aoki 
Chapter Thirty Ecological Challenges: A Marxist Response Andriana Vlachou 

Index

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