Table of Contents

List of Contributors.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 The absorptive class.
Chapter 2 State Theory and Civil Society.
Chapter 3 The commodity.
Chapter 4 Production of the consumer society under capitalism.
Chapter 5 Narcissism and the fractionalization of the individual.
Chapter 6 Economic crises and the theory of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall.
Chapter 7 Reformism, class consciousness and class action.
Chapter 8 On the labor theory of value: statistical artefacts or regularities?.
Chapter 9 Limits and challenges of the consistency debate in Marxian value theory.
Chapter 10 Methodological differences between two Marxian economists in Japan: K?z? Uno and Sekisuke Mita.
Research in political economy.
Why capitalism survives crises: The shock absorbers.
Copyright page.