Social classes in classical and Marxist political economy

Milios, J

dc.contributor.author	Milios, J	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:15:53Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:15:53Z
dc.date.issued	2000	en
dc.identifier.issn	0002-9246	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/13796
dc.subject	Political Economy	en
dc.subject	Social Class	en
dc.subject.classification	Economics	en
dc.subject.classification	Sociology	en
dc.title	Social classes in classical and Marxist political economy	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1111/1536-7150.00027	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1536-7150.00027	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2000	en
heal.abstract	The notion social class attains a well-defined theoretical content in the works of the classical political economists, who defined classes on the basis of die specific income form that each category of people (class) obtains. This approach to class constitutes a first form of a "friendly merger" between political economy and sociology. When combined with the classical labor value theory, it has led to a theory of class exploitation of the laboring class by the capitalist class. As economic theory became increasingly apologetic after the "Marginalist Revolution" (setting itself the aim of justifying capitalism), the theory of class has been totally banished from the corpus of "modern (neoclassical) economic science." This paper claims that the scientific elements inherent in classical political economy's class theory were preserved by the Marxist class theory, which further revolutionized the classical approach, creating a new, purely non-economistic and non-mechanistic "relationist" class theory, and forming thus a vivid economic-sociological approach to social classes. On the basis of the Marxist approach, complex problems concerning the class structure of contemporary societies can be tackled.	en
heal.publisher	AMER J ECON SOCIOLOGY INC	en
heal.journalName	AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/1536-7150.00027	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000087162600008	en
dc.identifier.volume	59	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	283	en
dc.identifier.epage	302	en