Ernesto Screpanti
Biographic Data
| ID | 5735936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernesto Screpanti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernesto |
| FAMILY NAME | Screpanti |
| SIGNATURE | SCREPANTI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siena |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 956 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Labour and Value
In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis.
Karl Marx on Wage Labor
Marx develops two different theories of the employment relationship. The first is based on an agreement for the sale of a commodity whereby workers cede a flow of abstract labor springing from a stock of labor power. This commodity seems to be a natural abstraction, with the properties of a productive force owned by the worker. Exploitation occurs when the exchange value of the flow of labor power is lower than the value-creating capacity of abst…
Progressive Taxation and the Distribution of Freedom
Freedom of choice in consumption activity can be represented by opportunity sets that are bounded by both budget and time constraints. I argue that, in a society in which income is distributed more unequally than leisure time, a government aiming at leaving freedom distribution unaltered should apply progressive taxation. Since incomes bind freedom only partially when this is bound by time constraints, taxing the rich reduces her/his freedom prop…
Freedom of Choice in the Production Sphere
A formula for measuring freedom of choice in the production sphere is proposed. Then a capitalist firm and a worker self-managed firm are compared in terms of freedom distribution. It is shown that the workers have little freedom, if any at all, in a capitalist firm, whilst the capitalist enjoys a great deal of freedom. In a self-managed firm, on the other hand, the amount of freedom enjoyed by the workers is positive and often even greater than …
Libertarian Communism
We are not among those communists who are out to destroy personal liberty, who wish to turn the world into one huge barrack or into a gigantic workhouse.There certainly are some communists who, with an easy conscience, refuse to countenance personal liberty and would like to shuffle it out of the world because they consider that it is a hindrance to complete harmony.But we have no desire to exchange freedom for equality.We are convinced . . .that…
Guglielmo Carchedi's ‘art of fudging’ explained to the people
In this note, I present a criticism of Guglielmo Carchedi's synthesis of the Temporal Single System (TSS) approach to value theory. My main criticisms are as follows. First, Carchedi adopts an essentialist, and indeed rather mystical, interpretation of Marx's value theory; second, his notion of ‘labour-value’ turns out to be just a redefinition of ‘price’, which has nothing to do with the labour embodied; third, his transformation procedure is in…
Value and Exploitation
Freedom and social goods
Marx’s conception of communism is interpreted as a theory of politics and historical transformation in which social actors are moved by a drive to freedom. In this view communism is a process of freedom expansion. By focusing on widely defined consumption choices, the extent of an individual’s freedom is identified in the opportunity set delimited by his budget and time constraints. Social goods, i.e., those provided without rivalry and without e…
Value and Exploitation
A deconstruction of the Marxian theories of value and exploitation is attempted by arguing, first, that the labour theory of value is logically and methodologically inconsistent as a basis for a theory of capitalist exploitation and, second, that it is founded on an ontology of the social being which is not plausibly justified. A counterfactual model economy is then built, called Utopia, in which the workers receive the whole net output while com…
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism presents a radical institutional approach to the analysis of capitalism. Ernesto Screpanti puts forward a number of provocative arguments that expose common ground in both neoclassical and Marxist orthodoxies. It will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists including advanced students and professio
The postmodern crisis in economics and the revolution against modernism
(2000). The postmodern crisis in economics and the revolution against modernism. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 87-111
Capitalist forms and the essence of capitalism
This article proposes a classication of capitalist forms on the basis of two concepts, ‘property rights regimes ’ (PRRs) and ‘accumulation governance structures ’ (AGSs). The former denes the way in which the ownership of wealth and surplus value is distributed, the latter the institutional systems governing the uses of surplus value to sustain accumulation. Three PRRs – ‘concentrated private property’, ‘diffused private property’ and ‘state prop…
Towards a General Theory of Capitalism
In this chapter two theories of capitalism are confronted. The first claims that private ownership of the means of production is the basic institution of capitalism and that the two opposing classes — capitalists and workers — must be defined on the ground of the distinction between ownership and propertylessness. This theory will be called the ‘S-theory’ since, although it predominates in Marx’s and orthodox Marxist thought, it originated with A…
Pluralism in Economics
Richard Murphy Goodwin, 1913–1996
(1997). Richard Murphy Goodwin, 1913–1996. Review of Political Economy: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 63-66
An Outline of the History of Economic Thought
Journal Article An Outline of the History of Economic Thought: Translated by David Field Get access An Outline of the History of Economic Thought: Translated by David Field. By Screpanti (Ernesto) and Zamagni (Stefano). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 441. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828370 9.) Charles E. Staley Charles E. Staley State University of New York at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Sraffa after Marx
In the interpretation of Sraffa's work offered here the critique of the marginalist theory of value and distribution is considered an objective of secondary importance. Greater emphasis is placed on the attempt to criticize economic theory in general. Production of commodities is a ‘prelude to a critique of economic theory’ in the same way in which the first chapter of Marx's Capital is a prelude to the ‘critique of plitical economy’. This articl…
Rethinking Economics
Rethinking Economics: Markets, Technology and Economic Evolution Get access Rethinking Economics: Markets, Technology and Economic Evolution. Edited by (Geoffrey M.) HOdgson and Sgrepanti (Ernesto). (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. xi + 206. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 852784164.)Towards a New Europe? Structural Change in the European Economy. Edited by Amin (Ash) and Dietrich (Michael). (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. xi + 241. £39.95 hardbac…
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism presents a radical institutional approach to the analysis of capitalism. Ernesto Screpanti puts forward a number of provocative arguments that expose common ground in both neoclassical and Marxist orthodoxies. It will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists including advanced students and professio
Capitalist forms and the essence of capitalism
This article proposes a classication of capitalist forms on the basis of two concepts, ‘property rights regimes ’ (PRRs) and ‘accumulation governance structures ’ (AGSs). The former denes the way in which the ownership of wealth and surplus value is distributed, the latter the institutional systems governing the uses of surplus value to sustain accumulation. Three PRRs – ‘concentrated private property’, ‘diffused private property’ and ‘state prop…
Value and Exploitation
A deconstruction of the Marxian theories of value and exploitation is attempted by arguing, first, that the labour theory of value is logically and methodologically inconsistent as a basis for a theory of capitalist exploitation and, second, that it is founded on an ontology of the social being which is not plausibly justified. A counterfactual model economy is then built, called Utopia, in which the workers receive the whole net output while com…
Sraffa after Marx
In the interpretation of Sraffa's work offered here the critique of the marginalist theory of value and distribution is considered an objective of secondary importance. Greater emphasis is placed on the attempt to criticize economic theory in general. Production of commodities is a ‘prelude to a critique of economic theory’ in the same way in which the first chapter of Marx's Capital is a prelude to the ‘critique of plitical economy’. This articl…
Karl Marx on Wage Labor
Marx develops two different theories of the employment relationship. The first is based on an agreement for the sale of a commodity whereby workers cede a flow of abstract labor springing from a stock of labor power. This commodity seems to be a natural abstraction, with the properties of a productive force owned by the worker. Exploitation occurs when the exchange value of the flow of labor power is lower than the value-creating capacity of abst…
Progressive Taxation and the Distribution of Freedom
Freedom of choice in consumption activity can be represented by opportunity sets that are bounded by both budget and time constraints. I argue that, in a society in which income is distributed more unequally than leisure time, a government aiming at leaving freedom distribution unaltered should apply progressive taxation. Since incomes bind freedom only partially when this is bound by time constraints, taxing the rich reduces her/his freedom prop…
Freedom and social goods
Marx’s conception of communism is interpreted as a theory of politics and historical transformation in which social actors are moved by a drive to freedom. In this view communism is a process of freedom expansion. By focusing on widely defined consumption choices, the extent of an individual’s freedom is identified in the opportunity set delimited by his budget and time constraints. Social goods, i.e., those provided without rivalry and without e…
The postmodern crisis in economics and the revolution against modernism
(2000). The postmodern crisis in economics and the revolution against modernism. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 87-111
Sraffa after Marx
In the interpretation of Sraffa's work offered here the critique of the marginalist theory of value and distribution is considered an objective of secondary importance. Greater emphasis is placed on the attempt to criticize economic theory in general. Production of commodities is a ‘prelude to a critique of economic theory’ in the same way in which the first chapter of Marx's Capital is a prelude to the ‘critique of plitical economy’. This articl…
Rethinking Economics
Rethinking Economics: Markets, Technology and Economic Evolution Get access Rethinking Economics: Markets, Technology and Economic Evolution. Edited by (Geoffrey M.) HOdgson and Sgrepanti (Ernesto). (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. xi + 206. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 852784164.)Towards a New Europe? Structural Change in the European Economy. Edited by Amin (Ash) and Dietrich (Michael). (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. xi + 241. £39.95 hardbac…
An Outline of the History of Economic Thought
Journal Article An Outline of the History of Economic Thought: Translated by David Field Get access An Outline of the History of Economic Thought: Translated by David Field. By Screpanti (Ernesto) and Zamagni (Stefano). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 441. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828370 9.) Charles E. Staley Charles E. Staley State University of New York at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Pluralism in Economics
Richard Murphy Goodwin, 1913–1996
(1997). Richard Murphy Goodwin, 1913–1996. Review of Political Economy: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 63-66
Towards a General Theory of Capitalism
In this chapter two theories of capitalism are confronted. The first claims that private ownership of the means of production is the basic institution of capitalism and that the two opposing classes — capitalists and workers — must be defined on the ground of the distinction between ownership and propertylessness. This theory will be called the ‘S-theory’ since, although it predominates in Marx’s and orthodox Marxist thought, it originated with A…
Capitalist forms and the essence of capitalism
This article proposes a classication of capitalist forms on the basis of two concepts, ‘property rights regimes ’ (PRRs) and ‘accumulation governance structures ’ (AGSs). The former denes the way in which the ownership of wealth and surplus value is distributed, the latter the institutional systems governing the uses of surplus value to sustain accumulation. Three PRRs – ‘concentrated private property’, ‘diffused private property’ and ‘state prop…
The postmodern crisis in economics and the revolution against modernism
(2000). The postmodern crisis in economics and the revolution against modernism. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 87-111
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism presents a radical institutional approach to the analysis of capitalism. Ernesto Screpanti puts forward a number of provocative arguments that expose common ground in both neoclassical and Marxist orthodoxies. It will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists including advanced students and professio
Value and Exploitation
A deconstruction of the Marxian theories of value and exploitation is attempted by arguing, first, that the labour theory of value is logically and methodologically inconsistent as a basis for a theory of capitalist exploitation and, second, that it is founded on an ontology of the social being which is not plausibly justified. A counterfactual model economy is then built, called Utopia, in which the workers receive the whole net output while com…
Freedom and social goods
Marx’s conception of communism is interpreted as a theory of politics and historical transformation in which social actors are moved by a drive to freedom. In this view communism is a process of freedom expansion. By focusing on widely defined consumption choices, the extent of an individual’s freedom is identified in the opportunity set delimited by his budget and time constraints. Social goods, i.e., those provided without rivalry and without e…
Guglielmo Carchedi's ‘art of fudging’ explained to the people
In this note, I present a criticism of Guglielmo Carchedi's synthesis of the Temporal Single System (TSS) approach to value theory. My main criticisms are as follows. First, Carchedi adopts an essentialist, and indeed rather mystical, interpretation of Marx's value theory; second, his notion of ‘labour-value’ turns out to be just a redefinition of ‘price’, which has nothing to do with the labour embodied; third, his transformation procedure is in…
Value and Exploitation
Libertarian Communism
We are not among those communists who are out to destroy personal liberty, who wish to turn the world into one huge barrack or into a gigantic workhouse.There certainly are some communists who, with an easy conscience, refuse to countenance personal liberty and would like to shuffle it out of the world because they consider that it is a hindrance to complete harmony.But we have no desire to exchange freedom for equality.We are convinced . . .that…
Freedom of Choice in the Production Sphere
A formula for measuring freedom of choice in the production sphere is proposed. Then a capitalist firm and a worker self-managed firm are compared in terms of freedom distribution. It is shown that the workers have little freedom, if any at all, in a capitalist firm, whilst the capitalist enjoys a great deal of freedom. In a self-managed firm, on the other hand, the amount of freedom enjoyed by the workers is positive and often even greater than …
Progressive Taxation and the Distribution of Freedom
Freedom of choice in consumption activity can be represented by opportunity sets that are bounded by both budget and time constraints. I argue that, in a society in which income is distributed more unequally than leisure time, a government aiming at leaving freedom distribution unaltered should apply progressive taxation. Since incomes bind freedom only partially when this is bound by time constraints, taxing the rich reduces her/his freedom prop…
Karl Marx on Wage Labor
Marx develops two different theories of the employment relationship. The first is based on an agreement for the sale of a commodity whereby workers cede a flow of abstract labor springing from a stock of labor power. This commodity seems to be a natural abstraction, with the properties of a productive force owned by the worker. Exploitation occurs when the exchange value of the flow of labor power is lower than the value-creating capacity of abst…
Labour and Value
In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis.
Economics (17 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (12 works) · Neoclassical economics (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Capitalism (6 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works)