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Social classes in classical and Marxist political economy

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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


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