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Cockshott, Paul. How the World Works [[electronic resource]]: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day. — New York: Monthly Review Press, 2019. — 1 online resource (335 p.). — Description based upon print version of record. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2093257.pdf>.

Record create date: 12/14/2019

Subject: Working class — History.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • HOW THE WORLD WORKS
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Pre-Class Economy
    • 2.1 Agriculture
    • 2.2 Reproduction
    • 2.3 Class Formation
    • 2.4 War, Patriarchy, Religion, and the Laws of Statistics
  • 3 Slave Economy
    • 3.1 Technology Complex
    • 3.2 Scheme of Reproduction
    • 3.3 Contradictions and Development
    • 3.4 Human Reproduction
    • 3.5 Commodities and Prices
      • 3.5.1 Neoclassical Prices
      • 3.5.2 The Classical Theory of Prices
      • 3.5.3 Evidence for the Theory
    • 3.6 Labor and Price under Slavery
    • 3.7 Money
  • 4 Peasant Economy
    • 4.1 Natural and Technical Conditions
    • 4.2 Forms of Surplus
    • 4.3 Reproduction Structure
    • 4.4 Comparison with Capitalism
    • 4.5 The Smithian Critique of Feudalism
  • 5 Capitalist Economy
    • 5.1 The Capitalist Price Mechanism
    • 5.2 Recurrence Relations
    • 5.3 Capitalist Surplus
    • 5.4 Technology and Surplus
      • 5.4.1 Vital Energy
      • 5.4.2 Hero’s Turbine Not Enough
      • 5.4.3 Practical Turbines
      • 5.4.4 Why Power was Essential
      • 5.4.5 An Iron Subjugation
      • 5.4.6 Automation or Self-Action
      • 5.4.7 Profit of First Use
      • 5.4.8 Wage Levels and Innovation
      • 5.4.9 Relative Exploitation
      • 5.4.10 Summary
    • 5.5 Capitalism and Population
      • 5.5.1 Population, Food, and Empire
      • 5.5.2 Family and Population
    • 5.6 Domestic and Capitalist Economy
      • 5.6.1 Gender Pay Inequality
      • 5.6.2 Narrowing the Wage Gap
      • 5.6.3 Division of Domestic Labor
      • 5.6.4 Reducing Overall Housework
      • 5.6.5 Moving Tasks Out of the Domestic Economy
    • 5.7 Distribution of Wage Rates
    • 5.8 The Next Generation
    • 5.9 Long-Term Trend of Profitability
    • 5.10 Productive and Unproductive Activities
      • 5.10.1 Violence
      • 5.10.2 Vice
      • 5.10.3 Finance
      • 5.10.4 Modern Rents
  • 6 Socialist Economies
    • 6.1 What Does Socialism Mean?
    • 6.2 Power
    • 6.3 Reproduction and Division of Labor
    • 6.4 Determination of the Surplus Product
    • 6.5 Socialist Economic Growth
    • 6.6 Why the Socialist Economies Still Used Money
    • 6.7 Socialism or State-Owned Capitalism
    • 6.8 Why the Law of Value Really Applies in Socialist Economies
      • 6.8.1 Intersectoral Relations
      • 6.8.2 Intrasectional Constraints
    • 6.9 Crisis of Socialism and Effects of Capitalist Restoration
      • 6.9.1 Long Term
      • 6.9.2 Medium Term
      • 6.9.3 Results
  • 7 Future Economics
    • 7.1 Technology Complex
      • 7.1.1 Materials
      • 7.1.2 Transport
      • 7.1.3 Information
    • 7.2 Population
    • 7.3 Politics
  • Appendices:
    • A Showing which Sectors are Productive
    • B Illusions Engendered by Averages
      • B.1 Constraints on Reproduction Schemes
      • B.2 First Experiment
        • B.2.1 Results
      • B.3 Discussion
      • B.4 Second Experiment
        • B.4.1 Results
      • B.5 Further Discussion
      • B.6 Model and Reality
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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