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| Title | How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day. |
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| Creators | Cockshott Paul. |
| Imprint | New York: Monthly Review Press, 2019 |
| Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция |
| Subjects | Working class — History. ; EBSCO eBooks |
| Document type | Other |
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| Language | English |
| Rights | Доступ по паролю из сети Интернет (чтение, печать, копирование) |
| Record key | on1130899595 |
| Record create date | 12/14/2019 |
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- Cover
- HOW THE WORLD WORKS
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pre-Class Economy
- 2.1 Agriculture
- 2.2 Reproduction
- 2.3 Class Formation
- 2.4 War, Patriarchy, Religion, and the Laws of Statistics
- 3 Slave Economy
- 3.1 Technology Complex
- 3.2 Scheme of Reproduction
- 3.3 Contradictions and Development
- 3.4 Human Reproduction
- 3.5 Commodities and Prices
- 3.5.1 Neoclassical Prices
- 3.5.2 The Classical Theory of Prices
- 3.5.3 Evidence for the Theory
- 3.6 Labor and Price under Slavery
- 3.7 Money
- 4 Peasant Economy
- 4.1 Natural and Technical Conditions
- 4.2 Forms of Surplus
- 4.3 Reproduction Structure
- 4.4 Comparison with Capitalism
- 4.5 The Smithian Critique of Feudalism
- 5 Capitalist Economy
- 5.1 The Capitalist Price Mechanism
- 5.2 Recurrence Relations
- 5.3 Capitalist Surplus
- 5.4 Technology and Surplus
- 5.4.1 Vital Energy
- 5.4.2 Hero’s Turbine Not Enough
- 5.4.3 Practical Turbines
- 5.4.4 Why Power was Essential
- 5.4.5 An Iron Subjugation
- 5.4.6 Automation or Self-Action
- 5.4.7 Profit of First Use
- 5.4.8 Wage Levels and Innovation
- 5.4.9 Relative Exploitation
- 5.4.10 Summary
- 5.5 Capitalism and Population
- 5.5.1 Population, Food, and Empire
- 5.5.2 Family and Population
- 5.6 Domestic and Capitalist Economy
- 5.6.1 Gender Pay Inequality
- 5.6.2 Narrowing the Wage Gap
- 5.6.3 Division of Domestic Labor
- 5.6.4 Reducing Overall Housework
- 5.6.5 Moving Tasks Out of the Domestic Economy
- 5.7 Distribution of Wage Rates
- 5.8 The Next Generation
- 5.9 Long-Term Trend of Profitability
- 5.10 Productive and Unproductive Activities
- 5.10.1 Violence
- 5.10.2 Vice
- 5.10.3 Finance
- 5.10.4 Modern Rents
- 6 Socialist Economies
- 6.1 What Does Socialism Mean?
- 6.2 Power
- 6.3 Reproduction and Division of Labor
- 6.4 Determination of the Surplus Product
- 6.5 Socialist Economic Growth
- 6.6 Why the Socialist Economies Still Used Money
- 6.7 Socialism or State-Owned Capitalism
- 6.8 Why the Law of Value Really Applies in Socialist Economies
- 6.8.1 Intersectoral Relations
- 6.8.2 Intrasectional Constraints
- 6.9 Crisis of Socialism and Effects of Capitalist Restoration
- 6.9.1 Long Term
- 6.9.2 Medium Term
- 6.9.3 Results
- 7 Future Economics
- 7.1 Technology Complex
- 7.1.1 Materials
- 7.1.2 Transport
- 7.1.3 Information
- 7.2 Population
- 7.3 Politics
- 7.1 Technology Complex
- Appendices:
- A Showing which Sectors are Productive
- B Illusions Engendered by Averages
- B.1 Constraints on Reproduction Schemes
- B.2 First Experiment
- B.2.1 Results
- B.3 Discussion
- B.4 Second Experiment
- B.4.1 Results
- B.5 Further Discussion
- B.6 Model and Reality
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
