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Language English Originally published 1977 Country United Kingdom | 2/5 Goodreads ISBN 978-0902308497 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subject Karl Marx, labor theory of value Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) Similar Ian Steedman books, Economics books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marx after Sraffa is a 1977 book about Marxist economics by Ian Steedman, in which Steedman argues against the labor theory of value. Steedman has been criticized for alleged misunderstandings of Karl Marx.
Contents
Summary
Steedman offers a neo-Ricardian reading of Marx. He employs Piero Sraffa's work to argue against the labor theory of value.
Scholarly reception
Heinz D. Kurz reviewed Marx after Sraffa in Kyklos. Political scientist David McLellan wrote in the 1995 edition of his Karl Marx: His Life and Thought that Steedman's reading of Marx has been influential. Philosopher Roger Scruton wrote that Steedman provides the most notable argument against the labor theory of value from the New Left. Ernest Mandel considered Marx after Sraffa as another critique of Marx's Capital, and accused Steedman of misunderstandings of Marx similar to those made by Paul Sweezy in his The Theory of Capitalist Development (1942).