Showing papers in "Review of Radical Political Economics in 1974"
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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that self-expression in work must at best be a luxury reserved for the very few regardless of social and economic organization, and even the satisfactions of society's elite must be perverted by their dependence on their dependence, with rare exception, on the denial of selfexpression to others.
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TL;DR: Mallet as mentioned in this paper argued that differential access to education and credentials thereof makes many people see themselves as stupid, incapable of sound reasoning, and so their awareness remains a fragment rather than a theory.
49 citations
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TL;DR: The question of why England was able to expand its productive capacities well in advance of other countries is of obvious interest to anyone who wants to understand the preconditions and mechanisms of economic development as mentioned in this paper.
42 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the working class was defined as "all blue-collar workers and salaried white-collared workers, excluding managers and officers of corporations and professional employees".
27 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the postwar relationship between the growth of the GNP and military expenditures and demonstrated that during the postwar period military expenditures have been used as the major instrument of (covert) capitalist planning within the U.S. economy.
26 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the concept of essential consumption is introduced, which refers to a different quantity of output that what would represent surplus value in Marx's sense, including essential outlays on government administration and the like.
19 citations
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TL;DR: This article employed a principal component analysis to derive a measure of the relative contribution to the stratification process of economic performance and nativity variables in the 1880-1920 Boston area economy, and found that strong economic growth at the turn of the century continued to undermine American nativism.
11 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the data on capital flows associated with U.S. direct investments overseas in the period 1952 to 1971 and observed the basic characteristics of U. S. overseas invest-
11 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the same type of analysis which Marx used to analyze value theory offers the best approach for an analysis of environmental problems, as it pertains to environmental problems is an extension of traditional price theory.
10 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, it is pointed out that the struggle for Black freedom in the United States has shifted from the South to the North, from rural to urban areas, and substantively, from civil rights to issues such as jobs, education and housing.
10 citations
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TL;DR: The appearance of a radical student movement and the organization of radical professional and other white collar workers in the late sixties and early seventies raise an important question: will this radicalism among the highly educated play an important role in bringing about revolutionary changes in U.S. society? Or will unemployment and job insecurity among college graduates, along with the financial crisis of higher education discipline young people to accept -if begrudgingly -the contours of U. S. society more or less as is? Is the recent relative quiet of the campuses a sign that the movement has been assimil
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TL;DR: A review of American history points to a pattern of imperialist behavior that goes back long before the postwar period to the very beginning of the Federal republic as discussed by the authors. But the United States is now and has long been an imperialist power is no longer subject to serious debate.
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TL;DR: For example, Dahl as mentioned in this paper pointed out that social scientists did not see among the unemployed and sub-employed the conditions for revolutionary struggle, and marxists did not understand the need for such a movement.
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TL;DR: The fact that lower and middle-income families are treated unfairly by the Massachusetts tax system is undeniable as mentioned in this paper, and yet these very same voters who declared for the liberal 1 McGovern voted down the GIT by a 2 to 1 margin.
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TL;DR: Most radicals denounce organized labor in this country because of its collusion in the perpetuation of the capitalist system as mentioned in this paper, however, there is no evidence that there is any such collusion.
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TL;DR: However, we think that in her quest for truth on Viet Nam Frances Fitzgerald is now only half way through her journey and has got lost in mirages that impart to her book a depth that is more apparent than real as discussed by the authors.