The Theory of Capitalist Development

The Theory of Capitalist Development
Cover of the first edition
Author Paul Sweezy
Country United States
Language English
Subject Labor theory of value
Publisher Monthly Review Press
Publication date
 1942
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 398
ISBN 978-0853450795

The Theory of Capitalist Development is a 1942 book by the Marxian economist Paul Sweezy, in which the author expounded and defended the labor theory of value.[1] It has received praise as an important work, but Sweezy has also been criticized for misrepresenting Karl Marx's economic theories.

Summary

Sweezy expounded and defended the labor theory of value.[1]

Reception

Eric Roll reviewed The Theory of Capitalist Development positively in The Yale Law Journal, calling it an important work. Roll wrote that its appearance alongside Joan Robinson's An Essay on Marxian Economics (1942) represented "a significant landmark in the development of economic thinking." Roll credited Sweezy with providing "the first modern comprehensive and systematic exposition of Marxian economic theory in the English language."[2]

The political scientist David McLellan called Sweezy's work the best modern continuation of Marx's economic ideas.[3] The Marxist theorist Ernest Mandel accused Sweezy of several misunderstandings of Marx, including confusing prices of production and market prices, a mistake he saw as a result of Sweezy's employment of the work of Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz,[4] a critic of Marx.[5] Mandel compared Sweezy's misunderstandings of Marx to those later made by economist Ian Steedman in his Marx after Sraffa (1977).[6]

See also

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

Books

  • Mandel, Ernest (1974). Marxist Economic Theory. London: Merlin Press.
  • Marx, Karl; Mandel, Ernest (1991). Capital, Volume 1. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-044570-6.
  • McLellan, David (1995). Karl Marx: A Biography. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-63947-2.
  • Wolff, Jonathan (1991). Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1856-3.
Online articles

  • Roll, Eric. "Reviewed Works: The Theory of Capitalist Development by Paul M. Sweezy; An Essay on Marxian Economics by Joan Robinson". JSTOR 792264.
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