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Where do I start with Labour Studies?
I'm looking to read anything from 'first year textbooks', to the classics in the field, to obscure highly theoretical philosophy, ethnologies, academic papers and novels. I kind of want to get a taste for all of it to see if i'd be interested in studying it at school.
thanks for any help!
p.s. I have started with Marx, but I understand current ideas in the field may have completely dropped some of his stuff like labour/surplus theory of value, would any of you know what these are being replaced with?
p.p.s. /his/ didn't really know about this field or books.
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Yes! Marx's labour theory of value is being replaced (by Neo-Marxians and Post-Keynesians) with very different things. Look up those 2 movements.
They adopt techniques of neo-classical economics like game theory, up the mathematics level on Marx, drop labour theory of value.
They added this to it instead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus
IMO Post-Keynesianism is really interesting. Look up Steve Keen and Hyman Minsky.
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((btw i should add I'm not really interested in so called bourgeois labour theories or economics. I've gone through enough of that already))
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>>8446420
They're not bourgeois, Neo-Marxians have been influential in third world revolutions.
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>>8446425
i know, but just in general a lot of economists working out of the keynesian tradition tend to want to find out the best ways to manage the economy to continue capitalism, b/c that is an important technocratic job now, which is fine, i'm not for or against it.
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>>8446425
but Paul A. Baran and that economic surplus stuff he wrote looks great
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