The paper builds on the Marxist concept of exploitation to explore the meaning of the Post Keynesian notion of uncertainty. Uncertainty is mediated by institutions and is distributed unevenly among different social groups. As different historical social formations entail different institutional structures, the distribution and nature of uncertainty also differ. The configurations between class relations and uncertainty are analyzed for the capitalist, feudal and slave modes of production. It is demonstrated that modes of production do not only imply specific exploitative relations but also different relative distributions of uncertainty amongst classes. Joining Marxian and Post Keynesian approaches allows a richer understanding of exploitive relations and illuminates the full societal impact of uncertainty. It is shown that only in capitalism is the exploited class exposed to a substantial degree of economic uncertainty. (author's abstract) / Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series

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The NAIRU theory has become the mainstream theory in explaining unemployment in Europe and is often used to justify demands for a cutback of the welfare state, reducing unemployment benefits, reducing minimum wages, decentralizing collective bargaining etc. Close inspection reveals that it nonetheless shares some arguments with Post Keynesian and even Marxist theory. The paper proposes an underdetermined, encompassing NAIRU model, which is consistent with several theoretical tradtions. Depending on the closure with respect to demand formation and determination of the NAIRU itself, the model allows for New Keynesian, Post Keynesian and Marxist results. (author's abstract) / Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series

Thesis (M.A. (Political & International Studies)) - Rhodes University, 2008.

O objetivo dessa dissertação é apresentar um exercício empírico, qual seja, transformar a contabilidade nacional oficial em categorias analíticas da economia clássica/marxiana. Esse processo é baseado na metodologia desenvolvida por Shaikh e Tonak (1994). No primeiro capítulo nós apresentamos de forma sucinta os principais aspectos teóricos da distinção entre o trabalho produtivo e o trabalho não-produtivo do ponto de vista do capital. No segundo capítulo apresentamos tanto a análise crítica do sistema de contas nacionais quanto a metodologia para realizar o mapeamento da contabilidade nacional convencional para categorias clássicas/marxianas. No terceiro capítulo aplicamos esse mapeamento nas contas nacionais brasileiras. Assim, baseando-nos nos recentes desenvolvimentos da pesquisa empírica marxista, estamos aptos a calcular a taxa de mais-valia, a composição valor e material do capital e a taxa geral de lucro marxiana para os períodos entre 1990-1994, 1995-1999 e 2000-2004. / The aim of this dissertation is to present an empirical exercise of transforming the official accounts into the classical/marxian analytical framework. Our transformation procedure is based on the methodology developed by Shaikh and Tonak (1994). Initialy we briefly present the mains theoretical aspects of the distinction between productive and unproductive labour. In the second chapter, it is presented both the critical analysis of the system of national accounts and the methodology for mapping conventional national accounts into the classical/marxian categories. In the third chapter we apply this mapping methodology to the Brazilian national accounts. Therefore, based on recent developments in Marxian empirical research, we were able to calculate the rate of surplus value, the value and materialized composition of capital and the general Marxian rate of profit for the 1990-1994, 1995-1999 and 2000-2004 periods.

LOPES, Adriano Jorje Torres. Os limites do conhecimento nas Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais do Curso de Graduação em Farmácia: um estudo a partir da ontologia marxiana. 2012. 118f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2012. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-23T14:27:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_ajtlopes.pdf: 1139439 bytes, checksum: a56a30b922047c1ae53d053d4826e26d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-05-24T10:43:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_ajtlopes.pdf: 1139439 bytes, checksum: a56a30b922047c1ae53d053d4826e26d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-24T10:43:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_ajtlopes.pdf: 1139439 bytes, checksum: a56a30b922047c1ae53d053d4826e26d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / The dissertative text which now is brought to light deals, in stricto sensu, with the philosophical-scientific investigation about the knowledge in the national curricular guidelines of the graduation course in Pharmacy (DCNF) and its limits, submiting such category to the precision of the marxian ontology. By its time, in lato sensu, the research brings to sight the importance of carrying out a study paved on material bases, guided by the incessant ontohistorical approximation to the studied object. The textual systematization is divided into two chapters which own relative independence, although they have a historical sense of ontological determination. The initial chapter is intended for to provide base to the grounding of what the knowledge is, or, in other terms, its genesis and function. This way, the concrete abstractions of Marx’s philosophy (in his writings until 1850) and Lukács (in his texts about the Ontology of the social being) were put vis-à-vis to the scientific discoveries of the current paleoanthropology, aiming not to defend gnosiologically the thought of some author in particular, but to unveil (ontologically) the self object. Consequently, both philosophical categories and scientific categories (teleology, causality, bipedalism-tecnology-brainincreased size, specialized and non-specialized) were studied, into being analyzed in their interface between the biological-causal and the historical-cultural; from the ontological bound of natural being (organic and inorganic) to social being, unveiling the proper place of (ontological) importance of the knowledge with reference to the labor. In the last chapter, the critical comparison of the notion of knowledge of the DCNF with reference to the ontohistorically grounded knowledge was done. Under this management, referential dedicated to the research in pharmaceutical education of several theoretical orientation was used. / A dissertação que ora é trazida à luz se ocupa, in stricto sensu, da investigação filosóficocientífica acerca do conhecimento nas diretrizes curriculares nacionais do Curso de graduação em Farmácia (DCNF) e os seus limites, submetendo tal categoria à lupa da ontologia marxiana. Por sua vez, in lato sensu, a pesquisa traz à baila a importância de se efetivar um estudo calcado em bases materiais, balisado na incessante aproximação onto-histórica ao objeto estudado. A sistematização textual divide-se em dois capítulos que possuem relativa autonomia, embora tenham um sentido histórico de determinação ontológica. O capítulo inicial destina-se a alicerçar a fundamentação daquilo que o conhecimento é, ou em outros termos, a sua gênese e função. Desta forma, as abstrações concretas da filosofia de Marx (em seus escritos até 1850) e Lukács (em seus textos sobre a Ontologia do ser social) foram postas vis-à-vis às descobertas científicas da paleoantropologia atual, com o intuito, não de defender gnosiologicamente o pensamento de determinado autor em particular, mas sim de desvelar (ontologicamente) o objeto em-si. Por conseguinte, foram estudadas tanto categorias filosóficas como científicas (teleologia, causalidade, bipedismo-tecnologia-tamanho do cérebro-aumentado, especialização e não-especialização), sendo analisadas na inerface entre o biologico-causal e o histórico-cultural; do salto ontológico de ser natural (orgânico e inorgânico) a ser social, desvelando o devido lugar de importância (ontológica) do conhecimento em relação ao trabalho. No último capítulo foi feito o cotejo crítico à noção de conhecimento das DCNF em relação ao conhecimento fundamentado onto-historicamente. Neste direcionamento, foram utilizados referênciais que se dedicam à pesquisa em educação farmacêutica de diversas orientações teóricas.

O objetivo dessa dissertação é apresentar um exercício empírico, qual seja, transformar a contabilidade nacional oficial em categorias analíticas da economia clássica/marxiana. Esse processo é baseado na metodologia desenvolvida por Shaikh e Tonak (1994). No primeiro capítulo nós apresentamos de forma sucinta os principais aspectos teóricos da distinção entre o trabalho produtivo e o trabalho não-produtivo do ponto de vista do capital. No segundo capítulo apresentamos tanto a análise crítica do sistema de contas nacionais quanto a metodologia para realizar o mapeamento da contabilidade nacional convencional para categorias clássicas/marxianas. No terceiro capítulo aplicamos esse mapeamento nas contas nacionais brasileiras. Assim, baseando-nos nos recentes desenvolvimentos da pesquisa empírica marxista, estamos aptos a calcular a taxa de mais-valia, a composição valor e material do capital e a taxa geral de lucro marxiana para os períodos entre 1990-1994, 1995-1999 e 2000-2004. / The aim of this dissertation is to present an empirical exercise of transforming the official accounts into the classical/marxian analytical framework. Our transformation procedure is based on the methodology developed by Shaikh and Tonak (1994). Initialy we briefly present the mains theoretical aspects of the distinction between productive and unproductive labour. In the second chapter, it is presented both the critical analysis of the system of national accounts and the methodology for mapping conventional national accounts into the classical/marxian categories. In the third chapter we apply this mapping methodology to the Brazilian national accounts. Therefore, based on recent developments in Marxian empirical research, we were able to calculate the rate of surplus value, the value and materialized composition of capital and the general Marxian rate of profit for the 1990-1994, 1995-1999 and 2000-2004 periods.

O objetivo dessa dissertação é apresentar um exercício empírico, qual seja, transformar a contabilidade nacional oficial em categorias analíticas da economia clássica/marxiana. Esse processo é baseado na metodologia desenvolvida por Shaikh e Tonak (1994). No primeiro capítulo nós apresentamos de forma sucinta os principais aspectos teóricos da distinção entre o trabalho produtivo e o trabalho não-produtivo do ponto de vista do capital. No segundo capítulo apresentamos tanto a análise crítica do sistema de contas nacionais quanto a metodologia para realizar o mapeamento da contabilidade nacional convencional para categorias clássicas/marxianas. No terceiro capítulo aplicamos esse mapeamento nas contas nacionais brasileiras. Assim, baseando-nos nos recentes desenvolvimentos da pesquisa empírica marxista, estamos aptos a calcular a taxa de mais-valia, a composição valor e material do capital e a taxa geral de lucro marxiana para os períodos entre 1990-1994, 1995-1999 e 2000-2004. / The aim of this dissertation is to present an empirical exercise of transforming the official accounts into the classical/marxian analytical framework. Our transformation procedure is based on the methodology developed by Shaikh and Tonak (1994). Initialy we briefly present the mains theoretical aspects of the distinction between productive and unproductive labour. In the second chapter, it is presented both the critical analysis of the system of national accounts and the methodology for mapping conventional national accounts into the classical/marxian categories. In the third chapter we apply this mapping methodology to the Brazilian national accounts. Therefore, based on recent developments in Marxian empirical research, we were able to calculate the rate of surplus value, the value and materialized composition of capital and the general Marxian rate of profit for the 1990-1994, 1995-1999 and 2000-2004 periods.

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This thesis seeks to trace domination theory back to the influential work done by Marx on commodity fetishism. Marx's work proves to be an original account of domination that explains how the dominated many accept the rule of the privileged few. The theory of commodity fetishism develops the idea that individuals come to adopt beliefs that bolster and reproduce the status quo of capitalism. For Marx, the way that individuals experience capitalism is different from the way that it actually works because, in fact, lived experience is actually false. Oppression, inequality and exploitation are thus hidden and the main source of conflict between the oppressed many and the privileged few is obscured. I seek to develop this insight of Marx's into a more comprehensive account of how dominating capitalism self maintains. Lukács' theory of reification explains how capitalism has become all-embracing because capitalism has developed its own type of rationality. This specific rationality shapes thought, which in turn, generates false beliefs that favour the continuation of the status quo. Horkheimer and Adorno argue that capitalism extends its influence by means of its deep involvement in modern culture. Today, culture has become an massive industry which inculcates the logic and principles of capitalism into individuals. For these theorists, capitalism has penetrated all areas of life; experience, knowledge and thought have become extensions of capitalism itself. Marx, Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno give accounts of how false beliefs are put into practice. Hence the importance of the work of Bourdieu. Bourdieu's theory of distinction describes how the status quo in capitalism is maintained by the behaviour of individuals through their daily acts of consumption. I argue that the consumption of commodities reproduces the status quo in two ways: firstly, establishing an upper-class which takes the lead in patterns of consumption, and, secondly, by creating a middle class that follows its example. Finally, I relate Bourdieu's insights to the theories of Marx, Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno and Bourdieu in order to arrive at a more inclusive account of how.