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The Types of Economic Policies under Capitalism
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Uno Kōzō
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Edited by:
John Bell
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Translated by:
Thomas T. Sekine
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2016
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Uno, who proposes to study capitalism at three distinct levels of abstraction, insists that there should be a mid-range theory of its developmental stages (dankaïron) between the pure theory of capital, which must be couched in the form of Hegelian dialectic (genriron), and capitalist histories which must be recounted with full empirical detail. In this book he illustrates how he would himself expose that mid-range theory, by summarising the three types of economic policy that the bourgeois state successively adopted: mercantilism, liberalism and imperialism. He moreover indicates that economics can relate and cross-fertilise with other branches of social science, such as law and politics, only at this level of abstraction, thus achieving an adequate theory of the bourgeois state. Nowhere else is Marx’s insight into ‘the state as the epitome of bourgeois society’ more vividly endorsed than in this book.
First published in Japanese as Keizai-Seisakuron by Kobundo, Ltd. in 1936. The current work is a translation of the enlarged and revised edition of 1971.
First published in Japanese as Keizai-Seisakuron by Kobundo, Ltd. in 1936. The current work is a translation of the enlarged and revised edition of 1971.
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Kozo Uno (1897–1977) was a Japanese Marxian economist who made many path-breaking contributions to Marx's theory of value.
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June 1, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789004352742
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338
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1
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37
eBook ISBN:
9789004352742
Keywords for this book
capitalism; dankaïron; dankairon; capital; Hegelian; dialectic; developmental; stages; genriron; capitalist; histories; history; empirical; theory; economy; policy; bourgeois; state; mercantilism; liberalism; imperialism; economics; cross-fertilise; fertilise; cross; social science; social; law; politics; politic; abstraction; Marx; epitome; society; Marxist; Japanese; Japan; value; intellectual; culture
Audience(s) for this book
Economists, scholars working on Marxist value-theory, economic history, or the bourgeois state, and students of post-war Japanese intellectual culture.
