Alan Freeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Freeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality
This article shows that economic inequality between nations has systematically worsened in monetary terms since 1950, and that the principal explanator is inequality between blocs of nations, notably the persistent gap between the Global North and Global South. By 2022, the GDP per capita of the North was 12 times greater than that of the South, this ratio being twice as great as in 1950. This general trend has two consistent exceptions, China an…
Through Pluripolarity to Socialism
The International Manifesto Group launched its manifesto, “Through Pluripolarity to Socialism” on 5 September 2021. Then, the world’s attention was riveted to the US’s ignominious exit from Afghanistan. The following speeches, delivered at the webinar to mark the first anniversary of the event, reflect on the tumultuous events of the year since, dominated by the US-led war on Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, its wider international reverberation…
The 60-year downward trend of economic growth in the industrialized countries of the world
This report, using data from a range of authoritative sources, studies the long-term postwar economic growth of the industrialised North and shows that this has fallen continuously, with only brief and limited interruptions, since at least the early 1960s. The trend is extremely strong and includes all major Northern economies without exception. It is confirmed by both Purchasing-Power-Parity (PPP) and a range of standard real GDP measures, by a …
The capitalist mode of destruction
The book analyzes capitalism's growing destructiveness and the cost–benefit contradiction it generates. Its new conception of the surplus, which recognizes not just capitalist businesses but also households and the public sector as sites of surplus production, links capitalism's destructiveness to that system's use of the surplus. Capital's use of the surplus turns scientific knowledge and technique into forces of destruction, and the book illust…
Introduction to the special issue of Japanese Political Economy on international income inequality
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Karl Polanyi and twenty-first-century capitalism
Creative Labor, Mental Objects and the Modern Theory of Production
Recent decades have seen a proliferation of literature on creativity, with no consensus about what it consists of. Chinese and Russian contributions throw new light on these debates because of their concern with economic and human development. By integrating this with the widely-used concept of the “creative industries,” a rigorous concept of creativity rooted in the notion of creative labor is proposed. This can be defined as non-mechanical labo…
Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism
Value and Class
This chapter studies Marx’s theory of class, with particular reference to Volume III, often misunderstood as a narrowly “economic” work, where the full power of Marx’s theory of value becomes apparent as he applies it to merchants, money owners, and landowners. A class, for Marx, is defined by a type of property, in contrast to modern social theory which defines classes by income or status. Each special type of property generates a type of revenu…
Value and price
The Conflict in Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism
In this introduction, we provide an overall framing of the articles that follow by placing the Ukraine conflict which today embroils the West in confrontation with Russia, within an historical account of the geopolitical economy of contemporary capitalism and the dynamics of imperialism in the twenty-first century, taking particular account of the decline of US and Western power and the rise of other centres of economic and military power, which …
Economics and Its Discontents
George DeMartino's The Economist's Oath is provoking timely and welcome discussions in economics. This essay assesses the close connection between the ethical dimension of economics and the concept of pluralism, which has become a focus of dissent within economics, especially in the UK and Europe. Both concerns, it argues, arise from the current “theoretical crisis of economics”—a term coined by Joan Robinson in the 1970s and updated in this essa…
Twilight of the machinocrats
The Unmaking of Marx's Capital
Is Creation an Industry? A Constructive Critique of the Economics of the Cultural and Creative Industries
Marxism without Marx
The most severe economic crisis since 1929 has produced a level of intellectual disarray probably not seen since 1968. In one crucial respect, the climate is different: Marxism's intellectual impact is negligible. The culprit is not Marx but 'Marxism without Marx'-a systematic attempt to divorce his conclusions from his economic theory. The demise of western Marxism marks the failure of this project. This note signals a first attempt to assess Ma…
The Economists of Tomorrow
This article presents the case for "assertive pluralism" in economics education and proposes how to achieve it, illustrating the point with reference to the U.K. Subject Benchmark Statement in Economics (SBSE). It proposes a revision of the benchmark, prioritizing the role of controversy in the teaching of economics, combined with pluralistic principles that uphold and guarantee critical and independent thinking. This reform is a necessary respon…
The Poverty of Statistics and the Statistics of Poverty
This paper offers a critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive view commonly presented depends on the widespread consensus that economic performance should be measured using ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP) statistics, instead of market exchange rates. Although originally conceived narrowly as a basis for comparing living standards, PPP indicators are now indiscrimina…
Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the international benchmarking review on research assessment
Purpose This paper aims to make a submission to the UK's Economic and Social Research Council as part of its international benchmarking review of economics. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of a discussion of the health of economics in the UK from the perspective of heterodox or pluralist economists who are members of the Association for Heterodox Economics. Findings Research assessment based on peer review is damaging econ…
Simultaneous valuation vs. the exploitation theory of profit
This paper examines the claims made by Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani in their article ‘The incoherence of the TSSI: A reply to Kliman and Freeman’, published in Capital & Class, no. 92. We show that they have effectively conceded that simultaneist interpretations of Marx's theory contradict his conclusion that exploitation (workers' surplus labour) is the exclusive source of profit in capitalism. We demonstrate the errors of logic in their cl…
For Another Europe
Replicating Marx
This is a prepublication version of 'Replicating Marx: a reply to Mohun', Capital and Class No. 88, Spring 2006, pp 117-123. ISSN 0309 8168 Kliman (2001) showed that simultaneist interpretations - those which hold that Marx valued inputs and outputs simultaneously - contradict his exploitation theory of profit, while the temporal single-system interpretation (TSSI) conforms to it. Mohun, S. 2003. On the TSSI and the Exploitation Theory of Profit,…
The Politics of Empire
Politics of Empire
Two concepts of value, two rates of profit, two laws of motion
Research in the temporal single-system (TSS) interpretation of Marx's value theory has refuted the Okishio theorem, which had supposedly disproved the law of the falling profit rate. In response to critics who confirm the correctness of the TSS refutation but, curiously, still uphold the Okishio theorem, this paper clarifies what the theorem actually asserts and why that assertion is false. It also shows that TSS results do matter: the contradict…
Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics
Replicating Marx
This is a prepublication version of 'Replicating Marx: a reply to Mohun', Capital and Class No. 88, Spring 2006, pp 117-123. ISSN 0309 8168 Kliman (2001) showed that simultaneist interpretations - those which hold that Marx valued inputs and outputs simultaneously - contradict his exploitation theory of profit, while the temporal single-system interpretation (TSSI) conforms to it. Mohun, S. 2003. On the TSSI and the Exploitation Theory of Profit,…
Marx without equilibrium
New emerging currents are questioning the assumptions of the traditional formalisation of Marx's value theory initiated by Ladislaw von Bortkiewicz in 1905, which has led three generations of economists to conclude Marx's theory was fundamentally flawed. The challenge comes from two directions characterised as 'sequentialist' and 'non-dualist'. Freeman shows that the fusion of these two insights leads to a completely general, coherent, non-equili…
Marxism without Marx
The most severe economic crisis since 1929 has produced a level of intellectual disarray probably not seen since 1968. In one crucial respect, the climate is different: Marxism's intellectual impact is negligible. The culprit is not Marx but 'Marxism without Marx'-a systematic attempt to divorce his conclusions from his economic theory. The demise of western Marxism marks the failure of this project. This note signals a first attempt to assess Ma…
The Poverty of Statistics and the Statistics of Poverty
This paper offers a critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive view commonly presented depends on the widespread consensus that economic performance should be measured using ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP) statistics, instead of market exchange rates. Although originally conceived narrowly as a basis for comparing living standards, PPP indicators are now indiscrimina…
The 60-year downward trend of economic growth in the industrialized countries of the world
This report, using data from a range of authoritative sources, studies the long-term postwar economic growth of the industrialised North and shows that this has fallen continuously, with only brief and limited interruptions, since at least the early 1960s. The trend is extremely strong and includes all major Northern economies without exception. It is confirmed by both Purchasing-Power-Parity (PPP) and a range of standard real GDP measures, by a …
The Economists of Tomorrow
This article presents the case for "assertive pluralism" in economics education and proposes how to achieve it, illustrating the point with reference to the U.K. Subject Benchmark Statement in Economics (SBSE). It proposes a revision of the benchmark, prioritizing the role of controversy in the teaching of economics, combined with pluralistic principles that uphold and guarantee critical and independent thinking. This reform is a necessary respon…
Simultaneous valuation vs. the exploitation theory of profit
This paper examines the claims made by Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani in their article ‘The incoherence of the TSSI: A reply to Kliman and Freeman’, published in Capital & Class, no. 92. We show that they have effectively conceded that simultaneist interpretations of Marx's theory contradict his conclusion that exploitation (workers' surplus labour) is the exclusive source of profit in capitalism. We demonstrate the errors of logic in their cl…
The Geopolitical Economy of International Inequality
This article shows that economic inequality between nations has systematically worsened in monetary terms since 1950, and that the principal explanator is inequality between blocs of nations, notably the persistent gap between the Global North and Global South. By 2022, the GDP per capita of the North was 12 times greater than that of the South, this ratio being twice as great as in 1950. This general trend has two consistent exceptions, China an…
Introduction to the special issue of Japanese Political Economy on international income inequality
Formulae display:?Mathematical formulae have been encoded as MathML and are displayed in this HTML version using MathJax in order to improve their display. Uncheck the box to turn MathJax off. This feature requires Javascript. Click on a formula to zoom
Value and price
Economics and Its Discontents
George DeMartino's The Economist's Oath is provoking timely and welcome discussions in economics. This essay assesses the close connection between the ethical dimension of economics and the concept of pluralism, which has become a focus of dissent within economics, especially in the UK and Europe. Both concerns, it argues, arise from the current “theoretical crisis of economics”—a term coined by Joan Robinson in the 1970s and updated in this essa…
Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the international benchmarking review on research assessment
Purpose This paper aims to make a submission to the UK's Economic and Social Research Council as part of its international benchmarking review of economics. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of a discussion of the health of economics in the UK from the perspective of heterodox or pluralist economists who are members of the Association for Heterodox Economics. Findings Research assessment based on peer review is damaging econ…
Crisis and the Poverty of Nations
In Sarsi I seem to discern the firm belief that in philosophising one must support oneself on the opinion of some celebrated author, as if our minds ought to remain completely sterile and barren unless wedded to the reasoning of someone else...that is not how things are. Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze
The crash
The Guardian of Every Other Rights
The Politics of Virtue
Marx without equilibrium
New emerging currents are questioning the assumptions of the traditional formalisation of Marx's value theory initiated by Ladislaw von Bortkiewicz in 1905, which has led three generations of economists to conclude Marx's theory was fundamentally flawed. The challenge comes from two directions characterised as 'sequentialist' and 'non-dualist'. Freeman shows that the fusion of these two insights leads to a completely general, coherent, non-equili…
The psychopathology of Walrasian Marxism
This new volume develops a rigorous equilibrium-free political economy based on labour values. Rooted in a non-dualistic approach restoring money to its central role in a commodity economy, Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics is the fruit of extensive international collaboration reflecting a profound critical reappraisal of Marx’s theoretical work and its relation to modern economics.
Price, value and profit - a continuous, general, treatment
This new volume develops a rigorous equilibrium-free political economy based on labour values. Rooted in a non-dualistic approach restoring money to its central role in a commodity economy, Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics is the fruit of extensive international collaboration reflecting a profound critical reappraisal of Marx’s theoretical work and its relation to modern economics.
Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics
Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics
The psychopathology of Walrasian Marxism, A. Freeman one system or two? the transformation of values into prices of production versus the transformation problem, T. McGlone and A. Kliman the transformation of values into prices of production - a different reading of Marx's text, A. Lamos-Martinez and A. Roriguez-Herrera money, the postulates of invariance and the transformation of Marx into Ricardo, A. Roriguez-Herrera time, money, equilibrium - …
Crisis and the Poverty of Nations
In Sarsi I seem to discern the firm belief that in philosophising one must support oneself on the opinion of some celebrated author, as if our minds ought to remain completely sterile and barren unless wedded to the reasoning of someone else...that is not how things are. Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze
Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics
This new volume develops a rigorous equilibrium-free political economy based on labour values. Rooted in a non-dualistic approach restoring money to its central role in a commodity economy, Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics is the fruit of extensive international collaboration reflecting a profound critical reappraisal of Marx’s theoretical work and its relation to modern economics
Has the Empire Struck Back?
The idea of this chapter is to ask what is happening to the world market. This is an innocent enough question and, as orthodox economics often approaches it, the only difficulties seem to be technical and empirical: get the data, make the model, feed the computer and churn out the result. I will argue that the real difficulty is not the answer but the question. The problem is not one of models or techniques; it is to understand what a market actu…
The Politics of Virtue
Fiercely committed to the separation of church and state, thoroughly pluralistic, largely secular: Where does a society like ours find common terms for conducting a moral debate? In view of the crises surrounding the issue of abortion, it is tempting to answer: nowhere. In this timely and provocative book, Elizabeth Mensch and Alan Freeman urge that we challenge the extremes of both the pro-life and pro-choice views of the abortion issue and affi…
Capital & Class Past and Present
The Politics of Empire
Politics of Empire
Two concepts of value, two rates of profit, two laws of motion
Research in the temporal single-system (TSS) interpretation of Marx's value theory has refuted the Okishio theorem, which had supposedly disproved the law of the falling profit rate. In response to critics who confirm the correctness of the TSS refutation but, curiously, still uphold the Okishio theorem, this paper clarifies what the theorem actually asserts and why that assertion is false. It also shows that TSS results do matter: the contradict…
The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics
This sequel to Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics introduces the key advances in modern value theory. Leading authors with contrasting theoretical viewpoints debate equilibrium and non-equilibrium approaches, abstract labour and money, and provide an invaluable introduction to the rapidly growing body of new work in these fields
For Another Europe
Replicating Marx
This is a prepublication version of 'Replicating Marx: a reply to Mohun', Capital and Class No. 88, Spring 2006, pp 117-123. ISSN 0309 8168 Kliman (2001) showed that simultaneist interpretations - those which hold that Marx valued inputs and outputs simultaneously - contradict his exploitation theory of profit, while the temporal single-system interpretation (TSSI) conforms to it. Mohun, S. 2003. On the TSSI and the Exploitation Theory of Profit,…
Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the international benchmarking review on research assessment
Purpose This paper aims to make a submission to the UK's Economic and Social Research Council as part of its international benchmarking review of economics. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of a discussion of the health of economics in the UK from the perspective of heterodox or pluralist economists who are members of the Association for Heterodox Economics. Findings Research assessment based on peer review is damaging econ…
Simultaneous valuation vs. the exploitation theory of profit
This paper examines the claims made by Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani in their article ‘The incoherence of the TSSI: A reply to Kliman and Freeman’, published in Capital & Class, no. 92. We show that they have effectively conceded that simultaneist interpretations of Marx's theory contradict his conclusion that exploitation (workers' surplus labour) is the exclusive source of profit in capitalism. We demonstrate the errors of logic in their cl…
The Poverty of Statistics and the Statistics of Poverty
This paper offers a critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive view commonly presented depends on the widespread consensus that economic performance should be measured using ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP) statistics, instead of market exchange rates. Although originally conceived narrowly as a basis for comparing living standards, PPP indicators are now indiscrimina…
Marxism without Marx
The most severe economic crisis since 1929 has produced a level of intellectual disarray probably not seen since 1968. In one crucial respect, the climate is different: Marxism's intellectual impact is negligible. The culprit is not Marx but 'Marxism without Marx'-a systematic attempt to divorce his conclusions from his economic theory. The demise of western Marxism marks the failure of this project. This note signals a first attempt to assess Ma…
The Economists of Tomorrow
This article presents the case for "assertive pluralism" in economics education and proposes how to achieve it, illustrating the point with reference to the U.K. Subject Benchmark Statement in Economics (SBSE). It proposes a revision of the benchmark, prioritizing the role of controversy in the teaching of economics, combined with pluralistic principles that uphold and guarantee critical and independent thinking. This reform is a necessary respon…
Is Creation an Industry? A Constructive Critique of the Economics of the Cultural and Creative Industries
Economics (31 works) · Political science (26 works) · Neoclassical economics (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (12 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Positive economics (12 works)