[OPE] Just published: THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE QUESTION OF CRISIS (RPE, Vol. 26)

I am pleased to report that THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE QUESTION OF
CRISIS is now published, 300 pages in length with the table of contents
listed below.

Abstract: This volume focuses on nationality's efficacy in much of world
affairs, andon the background and current issues surrounding global crisis.
As one of the most famous Marxist revolutionaries, Rosa Luxemburg vigorously
promoted her own conceptions, often opposing Lenin, her contemporary. In
this volume, Narihiko Ito offers a much needed, extensive analysis of her
position on the nation state versus national autonomy. This is followed
by a critique of the current Iranian conjuncture, offered by Farhang
Morady.

The development of crises in capitalism is addressed both directly
and indirectly within the volume. Radhika Desai highlights renewed
consideration of the major role of consumption demand in Marxist theory and
considers implications for the current crisis. Paul Zarembka extends,
theoretically and empirically, Marx's analysis of long-term capitalist
accumulation and shows that merely 10-15% of surplus value has been needed
for the accumulation occurring over the past 150 years. The volume
continues with Karen Petersen's analysis of the post-WWII developments of
major currencies. Restoring the concept of freedom within the current
crisis, Alan Freeman argues the need to extricate French positivism from
the Marxism that developed after Marx. The final chapter by Jorgen
Sandemose presents a careful argument that the beginning of Marx's 'Capital'
had origins in many philosophical traditions and especially in early German
philosophy and yet that this recognition does not make Marx a "Hegelian".

THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE QUESTION OF CRISIS
RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Volume 26, Research in Political Economy
Paul Zarembka, Editor
Emerald Group, Bingley, United Kingdom
www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0161-7230

PART I: THE NATIONAL QUESTION

Narihiko Ito, "Is the National Question an Aporia for Humanity? How to
Read Rosa Luxemburg's 'The National Question and Autonomy'"

Farhang Morady, "Iran: Islamic Republic or God's Kingdom? The Election,
Protest and Prospects for Change"

PART II: CRISIS EMPIRICALLY AND THEORETICALLY UNDERSTOOD

Radhika Desai, "Consumption Demand in Marx and in the Current Crisis"

Paul Zarembka, "Low Surplus Value Historically Required for Accumulation,
Seen in a Model Derived from Marx"

Karen Helveg Petersen, "World Money: From the Eurodollar to the Sinodollar"

Alan Freeman, "Crisis and 'Law of Motion' in Economics: A Critique of
Positivist Marxism"

PART III: A SCIENCE OF CAPITAL

Jorgen Sandemose, "Fundamentals of a Science of Capital and Bourgeois
Society: Marxian Notions of Value, Prices, and the Structure of Time"

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(V26) THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE QUESTION OF CRISIS
====> Research in Political Economy, Emerald Group, Bingley, UK
====> P.Zarembka, Ed., www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0161-7230

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