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Subject: Published: "Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent
Economists" (R.P.E., Vol. 20)
From: Paul Zarembka <zarembka@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Date: Sat, December 7, 2002 5:15 pm
CONFRONTING 9-11, IDEOLOGIES OF RACE, AND EMINENT ECONOMISTS
Research in Political Economy, Volume 20
Paul Zarembka, editor
Confronting 9-11, the first chapter draws upon a Hegelian-Marxist
concept of concrete evil, connecting malevolence to ruling elites, while
additionally addressing sub-surface political forces. It is followed by
'deep political' analysis of drugs, in addition to oil, as controlling
factors of U. S. wars. Both chapters focus around Afghanistan.
Commonalties of race ideologies in capitalist contexts are next examined
by connecting them to capitalist societies' goals and strategies. Haiti
and South Africa are case studies.
Estimates for U.S. value and surplus value are undertaken and related to
GDP. Implications are drawn for the distribution of value, use value and
social labor. The model permits simulation and sensitivity analysis,
with links provided to a careful implementation.
Four chapters deal critically with writings of major economists. The
first shows that Keynes, while rejecting invisible hand mechanisms,
assigned to the educated bourgeoisie the role of overcoming the
pathologies of capitalism. The second investigates evidence of
plagiarism in Keynes, showing that he appropriated Gesell's insights
into the nature of money and interest but in a manner to help preserve
capitalism. Moving to overcome limited attention by Marxists to
Ricardo's comparative advantage theory, the next chapter assesses the
work of Shaikh and Hudson, concluding consistent with the overriding
role of exploitation in production. The final chapter compares Bentham's
"panopticon" (an institution of
confinement, surveillance and extraction of labor) to Hayek's market
order conceptualization, and shows that both are disciplinary regimes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
PART I. 9-11 AND DEEP POLITICS
The Deep Politics of September 11: Political Economy of Concrete Evil,
by David MacGregor, King's College, University of Western Ontario
US Wars in the Light of the International Drug Trade, by Peter Dale
Scott, University of California, Berkeley
PART II. IDEOLOGIES OF RACE
Ideologies of Race and Racism, by Babacar Camara, Miami University,
Middletown
PART III. UTILIZING SURPLUS VALUE EMPIRICALLY
Estimating Gross Domestic Product with Surplus Value", by Victor
Kasper, Jr., Buffalo State College
PART IV. CRITIQUES OF KEYNES' GENERAL THEORY, OF RICARDO'S TRADE
THEORY, AND OF THE MARKET
Collective and Individual Rationality: Maynard Keynes's Methodology
Standpoint and Policy Prescription, by Andy Denis, City University,
London
On the Art of Innuendo: J. M. Keynes's Plagiarism of Silvio Gesell's
Monetary Economics, by Guido Giacomo Preparata, University of
Washington, Tacoma
A Political Economy Critique of the Ricardian Comparative Advantage
Theory, by Turan Subasat, University of Bath
The Market as Disciplinary Order: A Comparative Analysis of Hayek and
Bentham, by Massimo De Angelis, University of East London
313 pages, ORDERING INFORMATION IS ON THE WEBSITE.
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Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
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