From: Riccardo Bellofiore (riccardo.bellofiore@UNIBG.IT)
Date: Wed Apr 27 2005 - 10:23:16 EDT
Dear John, thank you very much! In fact, I have the book!! (But I didn't looked at it since many, many years, and somehow I missed it when looking for this piece among Sweezy's books in my very confused personal library). I will also try to buy your book on Internet. comradely riccardo ps: my surname is Bellofiore At 6:28 -0700 27-04-2005, John Bellamy Foster wrote: >Dear Riccardo bellofio, > >Michael Lebowitz sent me your inquiry on Sweeezy. The piece that you >are looking for was published in the January 1974 issue of MONTHLY >REVIEW under the title "Monopoly Capital and the Theory of Value." >It was the preface to the second printing of the Greek translation >of their book. It was reprinted in THE FALTERING ECONOMY: THE >PROBLEM OF ACCUMULATION UNDER MONOPOLY CAPTIALISM, edited by myself >and Henryk >Szlajfer (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984). My book THE THEORY >OF MONOPOLY CAPITALISM: AN ELABORATION OF MARXIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY >(New York: Monthly Review Press, 1986) deals extensively with the >connection of the surplus concept to surplus value/the labor theory >of value. Let me know if there is any other way I can help. > >Fraternally, John Bellamy Foster, Coeditor, MONTHLY REVIEW > > > >At 05:52 AM 4/27/2005, you wrote: >>bellofio@mail.unibg.it > >>am writing a short paper on the interpretation of Baran & Sweezy's >>Monopoly Capital given in 1971-73 by Claudio Napoleoni in some >>university lectures. It touches the question of the compatibility or >>not of the book with the Marxian labour theory of value. >> >>In an interview in 1987 (if I remember well) Sweezy writes of an >>introduction by him to the Greek translation of the book where he >>defends the compatibility view of their argument relative to Marx's >>LTV. >> >>Does anybody know if there is some English version of it somewhere? Where? >> >>thanks >> >>riccardo -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Hyman P. Minsky" Università di Bergamo Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it direct +39-035-2052545 secretary +39-035 2052501 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/pers/?riccardo.bellofiore
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