Throughout this century there has been, and continues to be, a long standing debate about whether the rate of profit falls as technical change accelerates. All the major figures in economics have faced these questions. Its origins can be found in Adam Smith through to Ricardo and Marx, thereafter through all major Marxian thinkers, up to the present. The author's contribution is to provide students with an encyclopedic summary of the debates over time, to clarify complexities and divergent tendencies in the debates. He examines divergent wings of the Marxist debate, other writings on holistic, Cartesian debates from philosophers, sociologists, historians and others, including orthodox economists.
- ISBN10 0745308775
- ISBN13 9780745308777
- Publish Date 20 June 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 June 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pluto Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 153
- Language English