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Article

Publication Date

6-19-2018

Abstract

Resumo:

Harvey compara a teoria do valor-trabalho de Ricardo e a teoria do valor adotada por Karl Marx, trazendo uma amostra das discussões de seu mais recente livro, Capital e a loucura da razão econômica. O autor discute as diferenças entre essas teorias e seus desdobramentos nos estudos marxistas atuais, concluindo que a forma valor dos estudos de Marx não pode ser considerada um “princípio imóvel e estável no mundo tumultuado do capital, mas uma métrica instável e em constante mudança”, que se expressa nas “novas práticas de reprodução social e massivas transformações nas vontades, necessidades e desejos de toda uma população” pela inserção na vida cotidiana. Segundo o autor, isso demonstra que essa teoria está “muito além do que Ricardo tinha em mente e é igualmente distante daquela concepção de valor geralmente atribuída a Marx”.

Abstract:

In this recent article, not yet available by publishers, David Harvey does a comparison between the labour theory of value from Ricardo and the value theory from Karl Marx, bringing a sample of the discussions of his latest book Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The author thus discusses the differences between these theories and their unfoldings in the current Marxist studies, concluding that the value form from the Marx studies could not be considered as a “stable fulcrum in capital’s churning world but a constantly changing and unstable metric”, which is expressed through “by unfolding practices of social reproduction, and massive transformations in the wants, needs and desires of whole populations” through everyday life. That demonstrates, according to the author, that this theory is “far beyond what Ricardo had in mind and equally far away from that conception of value usually attributed to Marx”.

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This article was originally published in GEOUSP Espaço e Tempo, available at https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2018.145931

This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

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