A materialist development of some recent contributions to the labour theory of value

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-146

  Brown, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Dialectics; Labour theory of value; Marxism; Realism

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC THEORY; LABOR; MARXISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 38749092646     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bem017     Document Type: Article

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