Michael Perelman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3624657 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Perelman |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Perelman |
| FIRMA | PERELMAN M |
| AFILIACIONES | California State University, Chico |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Profiting without Production
Lapavitsas's Profiting without Production is a tour de force, covering the subject of financialization thoroughly, from the abstract to the concrete, including an impressive analysis of derivative
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property
Political economy is very relevant for a discussion of intellectual property, especially because so many people seem to regard intellectual property as the pinnacle of a modern market economy. In r
Human Development with Sustainability
Sado-Monetarism
Economist Edwin Dickens has written a series of significant articles analyzing the minutes of the meetings, dating back to the 1950s, of the Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Board. (The Committee is the main policy-making body of the Board.) Dickens's research shows convincingly that the Federal Reserve's partisan behavior is designed to tilt the economy in the direction of the wealthy by making workers more compliant.... A recent stu…
Economics vs. harmonious civilization
Economics presents capitalism as a harmonious society made coherent by a network of mutually advantageous transactions. This article challenges that view, showing how economists structured their abstract theory in terms of transactions in order to eliminate any consideration of the conflicts and contradictions within capitalism. To make this point, the article includes examples, such as the United States Federal Reserve's efforts to strangle econ…
Retrospectives
In a 1966 article in the American Economic Review, Harvey Leibenstein introduced the concept of "X-efficiency": the gap between ideal allocative efficiency and actually existing efficiency. Leibenstein insisted that absent strong competitive pressure, firms are unlikely to use their resources efficiently, and he suggested that X-efficiency is pervasive. Leibenstein, of course, was attacking a fundamental economic assumption: that firms minimize c…
Adam Smith
The Political Economy of Work
Book Review| June 01 2010 The Political Economy of Work By David A. Spencer. London: Routledge, 2008. xviii; 192 pp. $130.00. Michael Perelman Michael Perelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (2): 390–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2010-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Perelman; The Political Economy…
Primitive Accumulation from Feudalism to Neoliberalism
Modern mainstream economists typically regard their discipline as a scientific analysis of their belief that markets are naturally the best way to organize the production of goods and services. The
Scarcity and Environmental Disaster
The neglect of replacement investment in keynesian economics
This article describes Keynes's early analysis of replacement investment and his subsequent neglect of the subject, especially by his followers. It goes on to explain how this deficiency helped to mislead later economists who attempted to use Keynes as a guide for economic policy and theory and the consequences of the errors of these economists
Some Economics of Class
How much more will be required before the U.S. public awakes from its political slumber? Tepid action in the workplace, the voting booth, and the streets have allowed the right wing to steamroll revolutionary changes that have remade the entire sociopolitical structure of the United States. Since the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, every Democratic administration with the exception of Lyndon Johnson's has been more conservative-often far …
Privatizing Education
Education is an essential part of modern economic progress, yet in recent decades, the right wing has consistently been unfriendly to public education. For example, the Walton family’s donation of $20 billion to help conservative causes was weighted toward the privatization of public education.... The economic effects of privatization will not be felt immediately. Over time, however, as a larger share of the workforce suffers the handicap of infe…
Myths of the Market
Adam Smith's farmworker paradox reflects the fact that those who do the most essential work in society earn the least, just as his diamonds and water paradox revolves around the low valuation that markets place on essential resources. This article explores the perverse economic logic that leaves markets to run roughshod over both humanity and nature. It also explores how economists either attempted to come to grips with or, more commonly, sought …
Towards an Unknown Marx
Book Review| June 01 2003 Towards an Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-63 By Enrique Dussel. Translated by Yolanda Angulo. London: Routledge, 2001. xl; 273 pp. $115.00. Michael Perelman Michael Perelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (2): 356–358. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-2-356 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissi…
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property
The dramatic expansion of intellectual property rights represents a new stage in commodification that threatens to make virtually everything bad about capitalism even worse. Stronger intellectual property rights will reinforce class differences, undermine science and technology, speed up the corporatization of the university, inundate society in legal disputes, and reduce personal freedoms.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review webs…
The Invention of Capitalism
The Invention of Capitalism
Marx, devalorisation, and the theory of value
This article investigates the implications of devalorisation of fixed capital in Marx's value theory. It shows why an exact, algebraic value theory is impossible. It also indicates how analysis of devalorisation provides a basis for understanding the nature of crises. Copyright 1999 by Oxford University Press.
Henry Carey’s Political-Ecological Economics
Henry Carey was the most important American economist of the middle part of the 19th century. Although he lacked an academic following in the United States, he was influential in Europe. In the course of denouncing British trade policy and British political economy, Carey developed an ecological-economic analysis that prefigures much modern thought. Carey began with the dangers of soil depletion and developed a dynamic theory of value based on th…
Mr. Natural
Paul Burkett: Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. James O'Connor: Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism. New York: Guilford, 1998
Class Warfare in the Information Age
The Neglected Economics of Trust
Economists have little understanding of trust. As economists, we are trained to think of the economy as an amalgam of individual agents, although the social element is an indispensable part of the economy. This perspective has caused us to lose sight of the role of trust. As a result, not only does the quality of life suffer, but the economy becomes less efficient.In this article, I want to call attention to the central importance of trust in a m…
Henry George and Nineteenth-Century Economics
Despite Henry George's great gifts as an economist and a social critic, he failed to take into account the momentous changes that were underway. As a result, his quaint faith in a combination of land reform and competition was unwarranted
Farming for Profit in a Hungry World
Primitive Accumulation from Feudalism to Neoliberalism
Modern mainstream economists typically regard their discipline as a scientific analysis of their belief that markets are naturally the best way to organize the production of goods and services. The
Classical Political Economy and Primitive Accumulation
Research Article| September 01 1983 Classical Political Economy and Primitive Accumulation: the Case of Smith and Steuart Michael Perelman Michael Perelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (3): 451–494. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-15-3-451 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Perelman; Classical Political Econ…
Marx and resource scarcity∗
Scarcity and Environmental Disaster
Marx, Malthus, and the Organic Composition of Capital
Research Article| September 01 1985 Marx, Malthus, and the Organic Composition of Capital Michael Perelman Michael Perelman 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (3): 461–490. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-3-461 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Perelman; Marx, Malthus, and the Organic Composition of Capital. …
Adam Smith and Dependent Social Relations
Research Article| September 01 1989 Adam Smith and Dependent Social Relations Michael Perelman Michael Perelman 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (3): 503–520. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-21-3-503 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Perelman; Adam Smith and Dependent Social Relations. History of Political Ec…
Profiting without Production
Lapavitsas's Profiting without Production is a tour de force, covering the subject of financialization thoroughly, from the abstract to the concrete, including an impressive analysis of derivative
Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity
Retrospectives
In a 1966 article in the American Economic Review, Harvey Leibenstein introduced the concept of "X-efficiency": the gap between ideal allocative efficiency and actually existing efficiency. Leibenstein insisted that absent strong competitive pressure, firms are unlikely to use their resources efficiently, and he suggested that X-efficiency is pervasive. Leibenstein, of course, was attacking a fundamental economic assumption: that firms minimize c…
The Political Economy of Work
Book Review| June 01 2010 The Political Economy of Work By David A. Spencer. London: Routledge, 2008. xviii; 192 pp. $130.00. Michael Perelman Michael Perelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (2): 390–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2010-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Perelman; The Political Economy…
Retrospectives
Where average fixed costs are large compared to marginal costs, competition will drive industry into bankruptcy. During the last century, the chaos that competition created within the railroad industry caused many prominent U.S. economists to reject the market in favor of trusts, cartels, and monopolies. They created the American Economic Association to counter the prevailing laissez faire theory. Nonetheless, some, such as J. B. Clark, still wro…
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property
The dramatic expansion of intellectual property rights represents a new stage in commodification that threatens to make virtually everything bad about capitalism even worse. Stronger intellectual property rights will reinforce class differences, undermine science and technology, speed up the corporatization of the university, inundate society in legal disputes, and reduce personal freedoms.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review webs…
Obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture
(1979). Obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture: A comment on Mann and Dickinson. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 119-121
The neglect of replacement investment in keynesian economics
This article describes Keynes's early analysis of replacement investment and his subsequent neglect of the subject, especially by his followers. It goes on to explain how this deficiency helped to mislead later economists who attempted to use Keynes as a guide for economic policy and theory and the consequences of the errors of these economists
Towards an Unknown Marx
Book Review| June 01 2003 Towards an Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-63 By Enrique Dussel. Translated by Yolanda Angulo. London: Routledge, 2001. xl; 273 pp. $115.00. Michael Perelman Michael Perelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (2): 356–358. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-2-356 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissi…
The Neglected Economics of Trust
Economists have little understanding of trust. As economists, we are trained to think of the economy as an amalgam of individual agents, although the social element is an indispensable part of the economy. This perspective has caused us to lose sight of the role of trust. As a result, not only does the quality of life suffer, but the economy becomes less efficient.In this article, I want to call attention to the central importance of trust in a m…
The Qualitative Side of Marx's Value Theory
Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity
An Application of Marxian Theory to Environmental Economics
The Generation of Technology and Agricultural Efficiency
(1976). The Generation of Technology and Agricultural Efficiency. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 217-224
Obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture
(1979). Obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture: A comment on Mann and Dickinson. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 119-121
Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity
Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity
Edmonds, Ricardo, and What Might Have Been
A Theory of Capitalist Regulation
"A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The U.S. Experience." Journal of Economic Issues, 15(1), pp. 242–243
Classical Political Economy and Primitive Accumulation
Research Article| September 01 1983 Classical Political Economy and Primitive Accumulation: the Case of Smith and Steuart Michael Perelman Michael Perelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (3): 451–494. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-15-3-451 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Perelman; Classical Political Econ…
Marx, Malthus, and the Organic Composition of Capital
Research Article| September 01 1985 Marx, Malthus, and the Organic Composition of Capital Michael Perelman Michael Perelman 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (3): 461–490. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-3-461 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Perelman; Marx, Malthus, and the Organic Composition of Capital. …
Marx's Crises Theory
Introduction: The Need for a New Reading of Marx's Crisis Theory Political Economy and the Press: Karl Marx and Henry Carey Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity In Search of a Method: The Nature and Evolution of the Categories Value Theory and Marx's Method Capital, Constant Capital, and the Social Division of Labor Fictitious Capital and the Crises Theory
Adam Smith and Dependent Social Relations
Research Article| September 01 1989 Adam Smith and Dependent Social Relations Michael Perelman Michael Perelman 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (3): 503–520. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-21-3-503 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Perelman; Adam Smith and Dependent Social Relations. History of Political Ec…
Information, Social Relations and the Economics of High Technology
A discussion of various types of capitalism and the evolution of the firm. The book examines the concept of the firm in the context of class conflict and considers markets as an impediment to economic
The Qualitative Side of Marx's Value Theory
Marx and resource scarcity∗
Retrospectives
Where average fixed costs are large compared to marginal costs, competition will drive industry into bankruptcy. During the last century, the chaos that competition created within the railroad industry caused many prominent U.S. economists to reject the market in favor of trusts, cartels, and monopolies. They created the American Economic Association to counter the prevailing laissez faire theory. Nonetheless, some, such as J. B. Clark, still wro…
Retrospectives
Joseph A. Schumpeter's celebrated theory of creative destruction was anticipated by David Wells's Recent Economic Changes (1989). In some respects, Wells's treatment is superior to that of Schumpeter. Unlike Schumpeter, who believed that monopolistic competition could maximize economic growth, Wells held that cartels or trusts were necessary to prevent capital-intensive firms from competing themselves into bankruptcy and sending the economy into …
Henry George and Nineteenth-Century Economics
Despite Henry George's great gifts as an economist and a social critic, he failed to take into account the momentous changes that were underway. As a result, his quaint faith in a combination of land reform and competition was unwarranted
The Neglected Economics of Trust
Economists have little understanding of trust. As economists, we are trained to think of the economy as an amalgam of individual agents, although the social element is an indispensable part of the economy. This perspective has caused us to lose sight of the role of trust. As a result, not only does the quality of life suffer, but the economy becomes less efficient.In this article, I want to call attention to the central importance of trust in a m…
Marx, devalorisation, and the theory of value
This article investigates the implications of devalorisation of fixed capital in Marx's value theory. It shows why an exact, algebraic value theory is impossible. It also indicates how analysis of devalorisation provides a basis for understanding the nature of crises. Copyright 1999 by Oxford University Press.
Henry Carey’s Political-Ecological Economics
Henry Carey was the most important American economist of the middle part of the 19th century. Although he lacked an academic following in the United States, he was influential in Europe. In the course of denouncing British trade policy and British political economy, Carey developed an ecological-economic analysis that prefigures much modern thought. Carey began with the dangers of soil depletion and developed a dynamic theory of value based on th…
Mr. Natural
Paul Burkett: Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. James O'Connor: Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism. New York: Guilford, 1998
Class Warfare in the Information Age
The Invention of Capitalism
The Invention of Capitalism
Myths of the Market
Adam Smith's farmworker paradox reflects the fact that those who do the most essential work in society earn the least, just as his diamonds and water paradox revolves around the low valuation that markets place on essential resources. This article explores the perverse economic logic that leaves markets to run roughshod over both humanity and nature. It also explores how economists either attempted to come to grips with or, more commonly, sought …
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