Paul Cockshott
Biographic Data
| ID | 326837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Cockshott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cockshott |
| SIGNATURE | COCKSHOTT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Crisis of Socialism and Effects of Capitalist Restoration
The main criticism leveled at the socialist economies was that a planned economy was inherently less efficient than a market one, due to the sheer scale of the bureaucratic task involved with planning a major economy. But the collapse of the Soviet and later the Russian economy under Mikhail Gorbachev and then Boris Yeltsin was an economic disaster that was otherwise unprecedented during times of peace. The world's second superpower was reduced t…
Humans, robots and values
Putting Electronic Voting under the Microscope
Electronic voting entered the political arena some years ago, with some countries advocating its use, some countries trialling and then abandoning it and yet others preferring to preserve the status quo of paper‐and‐pencil voting within a voting booth. In this paper we present the pros and cons of electronic voting and propose a set of characteristics we think electronic voting systems should exhibit. We then briefly review some pertinent concern…
Question 3: Incentives and Consciousness
If socialist society is not constructed out of pre-existing socialist individuals, then how does it handle the historical limitations inherited from pre-socialist conditions? What is the best way to advance beyond the limitations of short-term and irresponsible anti-social self-interest? What is the nature of the individual-social relationship
Question 4: Stages and Productive Forces
Does socialism progress through stages? Is there a higher, or communist, stage? How can stages, as a manifestation of the objectivity of social evolution, be reconciled with the marshaling of will and consciousness necessary for building socialist society? What role does (or should) development of the productive forces play in a) socialist social evolution; b) socialist theory? How does socialism envision the evolution of democracy? the state
Question 5: Social and Long-Term Planning
What does socialism contribute to social planning, in the sense of shaping the social and physical environment over the long term (as distinct from the ever-present matter of short-term coordination of activities)? Can it incorporate genuine entre-preneurialism and/or inventiveness? What are the prospects for growth, and how will socialist growth differ from capitalist growth? How can/must socialism build into its core processes the transcendence…
Question 1: Why Socialism
What is the ultimate grounding and historical justification for projecting a socialist society? Broadly conceptualized, what do socialists want? What are the defining qualities of socialism, and how do those qualities constitute a decisive advance over capitalism and class-antagonistic societies in general
Question 2: Feasibility and Coordination
What are the distinctive features of a socialist organization of production, distribution, consumption? How are complex choices made, and highly variegated individual needs and interests reconciled? What should be the balance among: market, central plan, iterative coordination, negotiated coordination
Doğan Göçmen, The Adam Smith Problem
Credit Crunch: Origins and Orientation
The cyclical pattern of capitalism is periodically punctuated by severe crises that \nlead to restructuring of the political-economic system. In this article we argue that \nthe underlying factor of the current crisis is a real economic imbalance caused by \nan unprecedented growth of the nancial sector. Moreover, we argue that a return \nto an expansive era of capital accumulation will become impossible in the advanced \ncountries
HandiVote: Simple, Anonymous, and Auditable Electronic Voting
We suggest a set of procedures utilizing a range of technologies by which a major democratic deficit of modern society can be addressed. The mechanism, while it makes limited use of cryptographic techniques in the background, is based around objects and procedures with which voters are currently familiar. We believe that this holds considerable potential for the extension of democratic participation and control
Can We Meaningfully Speak of Changes in Price under the Regime of Changes in Techniques
This paper presents a simulation exercise on Sraffa's system under various types of technical changes to show that the direction of changes in prices of commodities is contingent on the choice of the numeraire. Thus, such a comparison of prices in two systems turns out to be meaningless. This result points to the arbitrary nature of the neoclassical supply functions, as they inevitably compare prices across several Sraffa systems on the basis of …
Hunting Productive Work
The definitions of productive and unproductive labor found in Smith and Marx can serve as a basis, from which to develop a more general definition, in which productive labor appears as that which is directly or indirectly involved in the production of relative surplus value. The proposed definition has important implications for empirical analysis, as illustrated by its application to Sweden, an exemplar of a highly socialized capitalist economy
The Relation between Economic and Political Instances in the Communist Mode of Production
A NYONE PROMOTING COMMUNISM in the current centurymust come to terms with the key historical event of the sec-ond half of the last, the demise of the Soviet system. Whether or not we describe ourselves as acommunist,o if our proposals in-volve the expropriation of the capitalist class and the institution of a form of social economy driven by the interests of the associated
Does Marx Need to Transform?
Almost all of the voluminous literature on the Marxian ‘transformation problem’ is predicated on the assumption that, whether or not he succeeded, what Marx was trying to do in part 2, volume III of Capital — namely to derive a set of prices consistent with the equalisation of the rate of profit across all capitals — was correct. Those neo-Ricardians who argue that there is really no transformation problem as such (on the ground that labour value…
A Reply to Maniatis
Testing Marx: Some new results from UK data
Analysing UK economic data over an extended historical timespan, from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, the authors use 'quantitative' or 'empirical' Marxist techniques to test key Marxian theses and categories. They argue that Marxian economics has nothing to fear from a confrontation with empirical data
Labour value and socialist economic calculation
The use of labour values as a basis for economic calculation in a socialist economy is defended. A resource allocation mechanism is outlined that uses a combination of labour value calculation with market clearing prices for consumer goods. Conditions for full employment are specified. A type theoretic analysis of economic calculation is presented. Information theory is used to estimate the information content of real price vectors. It is demonst…
Labour value and socialist economic calculation
The use of labour values as a basis for economic calculation in a socialist economy is defended. A resource allocation mechanism is outlined that uses a combination of labour value calculation with market clearing prices for consumer goods. Conditions for full employment are specified. A type theoretic analysis of economic calculation is presented. Information theory is used to estimate the information content of real price vectors. It is demonst…
Testing Marx: Some new results from UK data
Analysing UK economic data over an extended historical timespan, from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, the authors use 'quantitative' or 'empirical' Marxist techniques to test key Marxian theses and categories. They argue that Marxian economics has nothing to fear from a confrontation with empirical data
Humans, robots and values
Question 5: Social and Long-Term Planning
What does socialism contribute to social planning, in the sense of shaping the social and physical environment over the long term (as distinct from the ever-present matter of short-term coordination of activities)? Can it incorporate genuine entre-preneurialism and/or inventiveness? What are the prospects for growth, and how will socialist growth differ from capitalist growth? How can/must socialism build into its core processes the transcendence…
Putting Electronic Voting under the Microscope
Electronic voting entered the political arena some years ago, with some countries advocating its use, some countries trialling and then abandoning it and yet others preferring to preserve the status quo of paper‐and‐pencil voting within a voting booth. In this paper we present the pros and cons of electronic voting and propose a set of characteristics we think electronic voting systems should exhibit. We then briefly review some pertinent concern…
Question 3: Incentives and Consciousness
If socialist society is not constructed out of pre-existing socialist individuals, then how does it handle the historical limitations inherited from pre-socialist conditions? What is the best way to advance beyond the limitations of short-term and irresponsible anti-social self-interest? What is the nature of the individual-social relationship
Question 4: Stages and Productive Forces
Does socialism progress through stages? Is there a higher, or communist, stage? How can stages, as a manifestation of the objectivity of social evolution, be reconciled with the marshaling of will and consciousness necessary for building socialist society? What role does (or should) development of the productive forces play in a) socialist social evolution; b) socialist theory? How does socialism envision the evolution of democracy? the state
Question 2: Feasibility and Coordination
What are the distinctive features of a socialist organization of production, distribution, consumption? How are complex choices made, and highly variegated individual needs and interests reconciled? What should be the balance among: market, central plan, iterative coordination, negotiated coordination
Credit Crunch: Origins and Orientation
The cyclical pattern of capitalism is periodically punctuated by severe crises that \nlead to restructuring of the political-economic system. In this article we argue that \nthe underlying factor of the current crisis is a real economic imbalance caused by \nan unprecedented growth of the nancial sector. Moreover, we argue that a return \nto an expansive era of capital accumulation will become impossible in the advanced \ncountries
HandiVote: Simple, Anonymous, and Auditable Electronic Voting
We suggest a set of procedures utilizing a range of technologies by which a major democratic deficit of modern society can be addressed. The mechanism, while it makes limited use of cryptographic techniques in the background, is based around objects and procedures with which voters are currently familiar. We believe that this holds considerable potential for the extension of democratic participation and control
Hunting Productive Work
The definitions of productive and unproductive labor found in Smith and Marx can serve as a basis, from which to develop a more general definition, in which productive labor appears as that which is directly or indirectly involved in the production of relative surplus value. The proposed definition has important implications for empirical analysis, as illustrated by its application to Sweden, an exemplar of a highly socialized capitalist economy
Labour value and socialist economic calculation
The use of labour values as a basis for economic calculation in a socialist economy is defended. A resource allocation mechanism is outlined that uses a combination of labour value calculation with market clearing prices for consumer goods. Conditions for full employment are specified. A type theoretic analysis of economic calculation is presented. Information theory is used to estimate the information content of real price vectors. It is demonst…
Testing Marx: Some new results from UK data
Analysing UK economic data over an extended historical timespan, from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, the authors use 'quantitative' or 'empirical' Marxist techniques to test key Marxian theses and categories. They argue that Marxian economics has nothing to fear from a confrontation with empirical data
A Reply to Maniatis
Does Marx Need to Transform?
Almost all of the voluminous literature on the Marxian ‘transformation problem’ is predicated on the assumption that, whether or not he succeeded, what Marx was trying to do in part 2, volume III of Capital — namely to derive a set of prices consistent with the equalisation of the rate of profit across all capitals — was correct. Those neo-Ricardians who argue that there is really no transformation problem as such (on the ground that labour value…
The Relation between Economic and Political Instances in the Communist Mode of Production
A NYONE PROMOTING COMMUNISM in the current centurymust come to terms with the key historical event of the sec-ond half of the last, the demise of the Soviet system. Whether or not we describe ourselves as acommunist,o if our proposals in-volve the expropriation of the capitalist class and the institution of a form of social economy driven by the interests of the associated
Hunting Productive Work
The definitions of productive and unproductive labor found in Smith and Marx can serve as a basis, from which to develop a more general definition, in which productive labor appears as that which is directly or indirectly involved in the production of relative surplus value. The proposed definition has important implications for empirical analysis, as illustrated by its application to Sweden, an exemplar of a highly socialized capitalist economy
Can We Meaningfully Speak of Changes in Price under the Regime of Changes in Techniques
This paper presents a simulation exercise on Sraffa's system under various types of technical changes to show that the direction of changes in prices of commodities is contingent on the choice of the numeraire. Thus, such a comparison of prices in two systems turns out to be meaningless. This result points to the arbitrary nature of the neoclassical supply functions, as they inevitably compare prices across several Sraffa systems on the basis of …
HandiVote: Simple, Anonymous, and Auditable Electronic Voting
We suggest a set of procedures utilizing a range of technologies by which a major democratic deficit of modern society can be addressed. The mechanism, while it makes limited use of cryptographic techniques in the background, is based around objects and procedures with which voters are currently familiar. We believe that this holds considerable potential for the extension of democratic participation and control
Doğan Göçmen, The Adam Smith Problem
Credit Crunch: Origins and Orientation
The cyclical pattern of capitalism is periodically punctuated by severe crises that \nlead to restructuring of the political-economic system. In this article we argue that \nthe underlying factor of the current crisis is a real economic imbalance caused by \nan unprecedented growth of the nancial sector. Moreover, we argue that a return \nto an expansive era of capital accumulation will become impossible in the advanced \ncountries
Question 3: Incentives and Consciousness
If socialist society is not constructed out of pre-existing socialist individuals, then how does it handle the historical limitations inherited from pre-socialist conditions? What is the best way to advance beyond the limitations of short-term and irresponsible anti-social self-interest? What is the nature of the individual-social relationship
Question 4: Stages and Productive Forces
Does socialism progress through stages? Is there a higher, or communist, stage? How can stages, as a manifestation of the objectivity of social evolution, be reconciled with the marshaling of will and consciousness necessary for building socialist society? What role does (or should) development of the productive forces play in a) socialist social evolution; b) socialist theory? How does socialism envision the evolution of democracy? the state
Question 5: Social and Long-Term Planning
What does socialism contribute to social planning, in the sense of shaping the social and physical environment over the long term (as distinct from the ever-present matter of short-term coordination of activities)? Can it incorporate genuine entre-preneurialism and/or inventiveness? What are the prospects for growth, and how will socialist growth differ from capitalist growth? How can/must socialism build into its core processes the transcendence…
Question 1: Why Socialism
What is the ultimate grounding and historical justification for projecting a socialist society? Broadly conceptualized, what do socialists want? What are the defining qualities of socialism, and how do those qualities constitute a decisive advance over capitalism and class-antagonistic societies in general
Question 2: Feasibility and Coordination
What are the distinctive features of a socialist organization of production, distribution, consumption? How are complex choices made, and highly variegated individual needs and interests reconciled? What should be the balance among: market, central plan, iterative coordination, negotiated coordination
Putting Electronic Voting under the Microscope
Electronic voting entered the political arena some years ago, with some countries advocating its use, some countries trialling and then abandoning it and yet others preferring to preserve the status quo of paper‐and‐pencil voting within a voting booth. In this paper we present the pros and cons of electronic voting and propose a set of characteristics we think electronic voting systems should exhibit. We then briefly review some pertinent concern…
Humans, robots and values
Crisis of Socialism and Effects of Capitalist Restoration
The main criticism leveled at the socialist economies was that a planned economy was inherently less efficient than a market one, due to the sheer scale of the bureaucratic task involved with planning a major economy. But the collapse of the Soviet and later the Russian economy under Mikhail Gorbachev and then Boris Yeltsin was an economic disaster that was otherwise unprecedented during times of peace. The world's second superpower was reduced t…
Economics (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Neoclassical economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (10 works) · Economic system (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)