Geert Reuten
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1600462 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Geert Reuten |
| PRENOMES | Geert |
| SOBRENOME | Reuten |
| ASSINATURA | REUTEN G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3933-8642 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Significance of Christopher Arthur’s The Spectre of Capital
Christopher Arthur’s 2022 book The Spectre of Capital presents a systematic-dialectical exposition of the capitalist economy, focussing on the forms of capital. The book is a specific synthesis of much of Arthur’s earlier writings (the relevant works are listed in Arthur 2022: 441–42). Inherently the book goes beyond those earlier writings, because ‘synthesis’ and the associated interconnectedness of ‘moments’ is the true art of the book
Capital by Karl Marx ed by Paul North and Paul Reitter
This new English trans la tion is from the sec ond Ger man edi tion of Das Kapital-I (1872), which is the last edi tion authored by Marx him self.The edi tors' choice for this edi tion of Capital-I makes sense.Reitter's is the first English trans la tion of the edi tion.Its Ger man source is the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). 1 Generally, where the Ger man texts of the sec ond and fourth edi tions over lap, Reit ter's trans la tion is largely …
Essays on Marx’s Capital
In this book Geert Reuten presents 21 of his previously published essays on the three volumes Marx’s Capital, dating from 1991–2019. The essays largely take the form of a summary of Marx’s text (a Volume or its Parts or Chapters) followed by an appreciation and (when required) a reconstruction. The book thus offers an overview of each of the three volumes of Capital, including their interconnection, as well as a focus on specific Parts of Capital…
The difficult labour of a theory of social value; metaphors and systematic dialectics at the beginning of Marx’s Capital
On the Distribution of Wealth and Capital Ownership; An Empirical Application to OECD Countries around 2019
In discussions of the composition of wealth, a common distinction is made between non-financial assets and financial assets. Within the latter category the uncommon distinction is drawn between ‘capital ownership assets’ (referring to ownership in enterprises) and other financial assets. The reason is that capital ownership assets come with a degree of actual or potential economic power – in the sense of having the capacity to significantly influ…
The Mondragon Worker Cooperatives’ Employment Record 1983–2019
In 2019, the Mondragon worker cooperatives, which number around 100, employed over 81 000 workers. Based primarily on information from the Mondragon annual reports, this article traces Mondragon’s employment record from 1983–2019. In this period its Spanish employment growth outran that of Spain by a factor of 3.4, and that of the aggregated oecd countries by a factor of 6.3. On top of the Spanish employment, Mondragon cooperatives’ subsidiaries …
The unity of the capitalist economy and state
Geert Reuten's The unity of the capitalist economy and state offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system. Outlining the economic and state institutions and processes that sustain capitalism, Reuten shows how the capitalist economy and state inevitably constitute a unity. Readership: Scholars and advanced students in political economy, economics, political science, social geography, sociology, and the philosophy of these sciences, and …
Marx’s Conceptualization of Value in Capital
This article reviews the three conceptual stages of the determinants of the commodities’ value in Marx’s Capital. It concludes that the dynamic second stage (designed in 1866–1867) overrules the third stage—of prices of production (designed 1864–1865). The first stage (Capital I, Part 1) is an important, though static averages account, positing that the commodities’ value is determined by average socially necessary labor time. The second stage (C…
The Productive Powers of Labour and the Redundant Transformation to Prices of Production
The famous Marxian ‘transformation problem’ originated from a research manuscript written by Marx in 1864/65, from which Engels assembled Capital iii (1894). Unequal capital compositions, equal rates of surplus-value and equal rates of profit among different sectors are posited, and reconciled using the problematic concept of ‘prices of production’. Yet the assumption of equal rates of surplus-value is at odds with the subsequent text of Capital …
An Outline of the Systematic-Dialectical Method
The method of systematic-dialectics (SD) is reconstructed with a focus on what institutions and processes are necessary - rather than contingent - for the capitalist system. This allows for the detection of strengths and weaknesses in the actual structure of the system. Weaknesses should be understood in the context of the system’s strengths, and vice versa. Here lies the political significance of the SD method.
Economic Stagnation Postponed
The significant increase since the early 1980s in the share of income accruing to capital (rather than labor), in both the United States and the European Union, created the potential for economic stagnation. Stagnation was postponed, however, by the development of the banking sector in these countries, notably in the increasing amounts of credit granted to wage earners. To the extent that such lending will be curtailed in the aftermath of the rec…
From the “Fall of the Rate of Profit” in the Grundrisse to the Cyclical Development of the Profit Rate in Capital
Marx’ s views on the “law” or “tendency” of the rate of profit to fall developed throughout his life from a law about the historical destination of the capitalist system as tending towards breakdown (the Grundrisse text of 1857-58), into a theory about the functioning of the capitalist mode of production as a (potentially) reproductive system (the 1864-65 manuscript of Capital III). The first view is compatible with a “naturalistic” and teleolog…
Money as Constituent of Value
In the first volume of Capital Marx introduces ‘money’ in chapter 1 (section 3) and then reintroduces it in chapter 3. At first sight the second introduction seems merely a superfluous excursion at this point since in the remainder of the book Marx apparently does not ‘do’ anything with it. He returns to money only in Capital II (Part II) and then again in Capital III (Parts IV and V). This may be one reason why the chapter 3 introduction has for…
"Zirkel vicieux" or Trend Fall? The Course of the Profit Rate in Marx'sCapital III
Research Article| March 01 2004 “Zirkel vicieux” or Trend Fall? The Course of the Profit Rate in Marx's Capital III Geert Reuten Geert Reuten Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (1): 163–186. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-36-1-163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon …
The Culmination of Capital
In this collection, four philosophers and four economists consider the Third Volume of Marx's Capital. The essays take up each of the major themes of Volume III - competition, for formation and develo
The Interconnection of Systematic Dialectics and Historical Materialism
This paper discusses some recent developments in the Marxian theory of value, called value-form theory, which have gone along with a methodological shift from a linear logic and historical dialectics to a dialectical logic and systematic dialectics. In order to appreciate these developments within the Marxian paradigm, it is useful to make two introductory remarks: first, on some peculiarities of Marxian discourse and, second, about discrepancies…
The Status of Marx’s Reproduction Schemes
Marx’s Capital is an unfinished project, in the narrower sense of the plan for the work with this title, dating from 1862, and even more so in the wider sense of a theory of the interconnection of economy and state and of the development of world capitalism. The evaluation of what is there obviously depends on the method adopted by Marx, but opinions diverge on the interpretation of that method.1
The Circulation of Capital Essays on Volume Two of Marx's Capital
The Circulation of Capital
The second volume of Marx's Capital is entitled The Circulation of Capital . Here a collection of original essays, by internationally known scholars, treat its themes, bringing to bear on all its part
The Contradictory Imperatives of Welfare and Economic Policy in the Mixed Economy
The abstract basis of the polity-economy relation is examined in order to comprehend the current economic limitations upon feasible politics. It is argued that contemporary mixed-economies have a deontological (rights/obligations based) rather than a consequentialist (outcomes-based) legitimation, expressing the conflict between the imperatives of the market-regulated capitalist economy and free will. Yet the state has to be concerned with the ri…
Conceptual Collapses A Note on Value-Form Theory
This brief paper comments on Pichit Likitkijsomboon’s 1995 review of ‘Marxian Theories of Value-Form’. Some major different perspectives between his account and that of (my version of) value-form theory are highlighted. These regard the character and type of quantifications; the relation between value, exchange and production; money and the credit system; and the articulation of ‘abstract labour’ and money.
The Necessity of Welfare
Welfare expenditure is under attack, so that a grasp of the determinants of welfare policy is timely. Neither functionalist nor instrumentalist theory, whether of a Marxist or mainstream kind, has been successful here. This paper offers a systematic presentation of the bourgeois state and of its interdependence with the economy, of which welfare policy is a key aspect. Controversially, the systemic necessity of welfare policy grounds a right to e…
After the Rectifying Revolution
The events of 1989–92 and the flood of advice from bourgeois economists is critically examined in the light of the Hegelian-Marxist theory of the mixed economy. The (sometimes catastrophic) failures of transition are laid at the door of the neglect of civil society
Value as Social Form
This chapter sets out the value theoretical foundation of the capitalist economy from the point of view of a Marxist—Hegelian philosophy. The main argument starts off from the dissociation between consumption and production in capitalism, which is resolved by the contradictory doubling of useful objects, and their creation, into use-values and value. First the systematic emergence of this resolution is set out, and next its contradictory effect…
The money expression of value and the credit system
In most of Marxist economics the theory of money is grounded in commodity money. This grounding calls for reconsideration in the light of recent debate over the Marxist theory of value and recent analysis of developments in the capitalist monetary institutions. It is shown in this paper that money, credit money and a fully developed credit system can be conceptualised at the level of abstract theory, without resort to commodity money. It is also …
"Zirkel vicieux" or Trend Fall? The Course of the Profit Rate in Marx'sCapital III
Research Article| March 01 2004 “Zirkel vicieux” or Trend Fall? The Course of the Profit Rate in Marx's Capital III Geert Reuten Geert Reuten Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (1): 163–186. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-36-1-163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon …
The money expression of value and the credit system
In most of Marxist economics the theory of money is grounded in commodity money. This grounding calls for reconsideration in the light of recent debate over the Marxist theory of value and recent analysis of developments in the capitalist monetary institutions. It is shown in this paper that money, credit money and a fully developed credit system can be conceptualised at the level of abstract theory, without resort to commodity money. It is also …
From the “Fall of the Rate of Profit” in the Grundrisse to the Cyclical Development of the Profit Rate in Capital
Marx’ s views on the “law” or “tendency” of the rate of profit to fall developed throughout his life from a law about the historical destination of the capitalist system as tending towards breakdown (the Grundrisse text of 1857-58), into a theory about the functioning of the capitalist mode of production as a (potentially) reproductive system (the 1864-65 manuscript of Capital III). The first view is compatible with a “naturalistic” and teleolog…
The Interconnection of Systematic Dialectics and Historical Materialism
This paper discusses some recent developments in the Marxian theory of value, called value-form theory, which have gone along with a methodological shift from a linear logic and historical dialectics to a dialectical logic and systematic dialectics. In order to appreciate these developments within the Marxian paradigm, it is useful to make two introductory remarks: first, on some peculiarities of Marxian discourse and, second, about discrepancies…
The Mondragon Worker Cooperatives’ Employment Record 1983–2019
In 2019, the Mondragon worker cooperatives, which number around 100, employed over 81 000 workers. Based primarily on information from the Mondragon annual reports, this article traces Mondragon’s employment record from 1983–2019. In this period its Spanish employment growth outran that of Spain by a factor of 3.4, and that of the aggregated oecd countries by a factor of 6.3. On top of the Spanish employment, Mondragon cooperatives’ subsidiaries …
Value as Social Form
This chapter sets out the value theoretical foundation of the capitalist economy from the point of view of a Marxist—Hegelian philosophy. The main argument starts off from the dissociation between consumption and production in capitalism, which is resolved by the contradictory doubling of useful objects, and their creation, into use-values and value. First the systematic emergence of this resolution is set out, and next its contradictory effect…
The money expression of value and the credit system
In most of Marxist economics the theory of money is grounded in commodity money. This grounding calls for reconsideration in the light of recent debate over the Marxist theory of value and recent analysis of developments in the capitalist monetary institutions. It is shown in this paper that money, credit money and a fully developed credit system can be conceptualised at the level of abstract theory, without resort to commodity money. It is also …
The Necessity of Welfare
Welfare expenditure is under attack, so that a grasp of the determinants of welfare policy is timely. Neither functionalist nor instrumentalist theory, whether of a Marxist or mainstream kind, has been successful here. This paper offers a systematic presentation of the bourgeois state and of its interdependence with the economy, of which welfare policy is a key aspect. Controversially, the systemic necessity of welfare policy grounds a right to e…
After the Rectifying Revolution
The events of 1989–92 and the flood of advice from bourgeois economists is critically examined in the light of the Hegelian-Marxist theory of the mixed economy. The (sometimes catastrophic) failures of transition are laid at the door of the neglect of civil society
Conceptual Collapses A Note on Value-Form Theory
This brief paper comments on Pichit Likitkijsomboon’s 1995 review of ‘Marxian Theories of Value-Form’. Some major different perspectives between his account and that of (my version of) value-form theory are highlighted. These regard the character and type of quantifications; the relation between value, exchange and production; money and the credit system; and the articulation of ‘abstract labour’ and money.
The Contradictory Imperatives of Welfare and Economic Policy in the Mixed Economy
The abstract basis of the polity-economy relation is examined in order to comprehend the current economic limitations upon feasible politics. It is argued that contemporary mixed-economies have a deontological (rights/obligations based) rather than a consequentialist (outcomes-based) legitimation, expressing the conflict between the imperatives of the market-regulated capitalist economy and free will. Yet the state has to be concerned with the ri…
The Status of Marx’s Reproduction Schemes
Marx’s Capital is an unfinished project, in the narrower sense of the plan for the work with this title, dating from 1862, and even more so in the wider sense of a theory of the interconnection of economy and state and of the development of world capitalism. The evaluation of what is there obviously depends on the method adopted by Marx, but opinions diverge on the interpretation of that method.1
The Circulation of Capital Essays on Volume Two of Marx's Capital
The Circulation of Capital
The second volume of Marx's Capital is entitled The Circulation of Capital . Here a collection of original essays, by internationally known scholars, treat its themes, bringing to bear on all its part
The Interconnection of Systematic Dialectics and Historical Materialism
This paper discusses some recent developments in the Marxian theory of value, called value-form theory, which have gone along with a methodological shift from a linear logic and historical dialectics to a dialectical logic and systematic dialectics. In order to appreciate these developments within the Marxian paradigm, it is useful to make two introductory remarks: first, on some peculiarities of Marxian discourse and, second, about discrepancies…
The Culmination of Capital
In this collection, four philosophers and four economists consider the Third Volume of Marx's Capital. The essays take up each of the major themes of Volume III - competition, for formation and develo
"Zirkel vicieux" or Trend Fall? The Course of the Profit Rate in Marx'sCapital III
Research Article| March 01 2004 “Zirkel vicieux” or Trend Fall? The Course of the Profit Rate in Marx's Capital III Geert Reuten Geert Reuten Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (1): 163–186. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-36-1-163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon …
Money as Constituent of Value
In the first volume of Capital Marx introduces ‘money’ in chapter 1 (section 3) and then reintroduces it in chapter 3. At first sight the second introduction seems merely a superfluous excursion at this point since in the remainder of the book Marx apparently does not ‘do’ anything with it. He returns to money only in Capital II (Part II) and then again in Capital III (Parts IV and V). This may be one reason why the chapter 3 introduction has for…
Economic Stagnation Postponed
The significant increase since the early 1980s in the share of income accruing to capital (rather than labor), in both the United States and the European Union, created the potential for economic stagnation. Stagnation was postponed, however, by the development of the banking sector in these countries, notably in the increasing amounts of credit granted to wage earners. To the extent that such lending will be curtailed in the aftermath of the rec…
From the “Fall of the Rate of Profit” in the Grundrisse to the Cyclical Development of the Profit Rate in Capital
Marx’ s views on the “law” or “tendency” of the rate of profit to fall developed throughout his life from a law about the historical destination of the capitalist system as tending towards breakdown (the Grundrisse text of 1857-58), into a theory about the functioning of the capitalist mode of production as a (potentially) reproductive system (the 1864-65 manuscript of Capital III). The first view is compatible with a “naturalistic” and teleolog…
An Outline of the Systematic-Dialectical Method
The method of systematic-dialectics (SD) is reconstructed with a focus on what institutions and processes are necessary - rather than contingent - for the capitalist system. This allows for the detection of strengths and weaknesses in the actual structure of the system. Weaknesses should be understood in the context of the system’s strengths, and vice versa. Here lies the political significance of the SD method.
The Productive Powers of Labour and the Redundant Transformation to Prices of Production
The famous Marxian ‘transformation problem’ originated from a research manuscript written by Marx in 1864/65, from which Engels assembled Capital iii (1894). Unequal capital compositions, equal rates of surplus-value and equal rates of profit among different sectors are posited, and reconciled using the problematic concept of ‘prices of production’. Yet the assumption of equal rates of surplus-value is at odds with the subsequent text of Capital …
Marx’s Conceptualization of Value in Capital
This article reviews the three conceptual stages of the determinants of the commodities’ value in Marx’s Capital. It concludes that the dynamic second stage (designed in 1866–1867) overrules the third stage—of prices of production (designed 1864–1865). The first stage (Capital I, Part 1) is an important, though static averages account, positing that the commodities’ value is determined by average socially necessary labor time. The second stage (C…
The unity of the capitalist economy and state
Geert Reuten's The unity of the capitalist economy and state offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system. Outlining the economic and state institutions and processes that sustain capitalism, Reuten shows how the capitalist economy and state inevitably constitute a unity. Readership: Scholars and advanced students in political economy, economics, political science, social geography, sociology, and the philosophy of these sciences, and …
The Mondragon Worker Cooperatives’ Employment Record 1983–2019
In 2019, the Mondragon worker cooperatives, which number around 100, employed over 81 000 workers. Based primarily on information from the Mondragon annual reports, this article traces Mondragon’s employment record from 1983–2019. In this period its Spanish employment growth outran that of Spain by a factor of 3.4, and that of the aggregated oecd countries by a factor of 6.3. On top of the Spanish employment, Mondragon cooperatives’ subsidiaries …
On the Distribution of Wealth and Capital Ownership; An Empirical Application to OECD Countries around 2019
In discussions of the composition of wealth, a common distinction is made between non-financial assets and financial assets. Within the latter category the uncommon distinction is drawn between ‘capital ownership assets’ (referring to ownership in enterprises) and other financial assets. The reason is that capital ownership assets come with a degree of actual or potential economic power – in the sense of having the capacity to significantly influ…
Essays on Marx’s Capital
In this book Geert Reuten presents 21 of his previously published essays on the three volumes Marx’s Capital, dating from 1991–2019. The essays largely take the form of a summary of Marx’s text (a Volume or its Parts or Chapters) followed by an appreciation and (when required) a reconstruction. The book thus offers an overview of each of the three volumes of Capital, including their interconnection, as well as a focus on specific Parts of Capital…
The difficult labour of a theory of social value; metaphors and systematic dialectics at the beginning of Marx’s Capital
Capital by Karl Marx ed by Paul North and Paul Reitter
This new English trans la tion is from the sec ond Ger man edi tion of Das Kapital-I (1872), which is the last edi tion authored by Marx him self.The edi tors' choice for this edi tion of Capital-I makes sense.Reitter's is the first English trans la tion of the edi tion.Its Ger man source is the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). 1 Generally, where the Ger man texts of the sec ond and fourth edi tions over lap, Reit ter's trans la tion is largely …
The Significance of Christopher Arthur’s The Spectre of Capital
Christopher Arthur’s 2022 book The Spectre of Capital presents a systematic-dialectical exposition of the capitalist economy, focussing on the forms of capital. The book is a specific synthesis of much of Arthur’s earlier writings (the relevant works are listed in Arthur 2022: 441–42). Inherently the book goes beyond those earlier writings, because ‘synthesis’ and the associated interconnectedness of ‘moments’ is the true art of the book
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