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Marx for the 21st Century This collection surveys current research on Marx and Marxism from a diverse range of perspectives. Marx is rescued from ‘orientalism’, evaluated as a socialist thinker, revisited as a theorist of capitalist development, heralded as a necessary ethical corrective to modern economics, linked to ecologism, and claimed as an inspiration to ‘civil society’ theorists. There are also major scholarly revisions to the ‘standard’ historical accounts of Marx’s work on the Com- munist Manifesto, his relationship to the contemporary theories of Louis Blanc and P.-J. Proudhon, and new information about how he and Engels worked together. Hiroshi Uchida researches and teaches at Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan. Routledge frontiers of political economy 1 Equilibrium Versus 7 Markets, Unemployment and Understanding Economic Policy Towards the rehumanization Essays in honour of of economics within social Geoff Harcourt, volume two theory Edited by Philip Arestis, Mark Addleson Gabriel Palma and Malcolm Sawyer 2 Evolution, Order and Complexity 8 Social Economy Edited by Elias L. Khalil and The logic of capitalist Kenneth E. Boulding development Clark Everling 3 Interactions in Political Economy 9 New Keynesian Economics/ Malvern after ten years Post Keynesian Alternatives Edited by Steven Pressman Edited by Roy J. Rotheim 10 The Representative Agent in 4 The End of Economics Macroeconomics Michael Perelman James E. Hartley 5 Probability in Economics 11 Borderlands of Economics Omar F. Hamouda and Essays in honour of Robin Rowley Daniel R. 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Mansoob Murshed Ernesto Screpanti 43 The Enigma of Globalisation 35 Transcending Transaction A journey to a new stage of The search for self-generating capitalism markets Robert Went Alan Shipman 44 The Market 36 Power in Business and the State Equilibrium, stability, mythology An historical analysis of its S.N. Afriat concentration Frank Bealey 45 The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform 37 Editing Economics Jim Leitzel Essays in honour of Mark Perlman 46 Unpaid Work and the Economy Hank Lim, Ungsuh K. 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Sadowski 61 The Political Economy of and Adam Szeworski Global Sporting Organisations 53 Fiscal Policy from Reagan to John Forster and Nigel Pope Blair The left veers right 62 The Flawed Foundations of Ravi K. Roy and General Equilibrium Theory Arthur T. Denzau Critical essays on economic theory 54 The Cognitive Mechanics of Frank Ackerman and Economic Development and Alejandro Nadal Institutional Change Bertin Martens 63 Uncertainty in Economic Theory 55 Individualism and the Social Essays in honor of Order David Schmeidler’s 65th The social element in liberal birthday thought Edited by Itzhak Gilboa Charles R. McCann Jnr. 56 Affirmative Action in the 64 The New Institutional United States and India Economics of Corruption A comparative perspective Edited by Johann Graf Thomas E. Weisskopf Lambsdorff, Markus Taube and Matthias Schramm 57 Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations 65 The Price Index and its Performance, institutions, Extension problems and policies A chapter in economic Edited by measurement Phillip Anthony O’Hara S.N. Afriat 66 Reduction, Rationality and 70 Labour Theory of Value Game Theory in Marxian Peter C. Dooley Economics Bruce Philp 71 Capitalism Victor D. Lippit 67 Culture and Politics in Economic Development 72 Macroeconomic Foundations of Volker Bornschier Macroeconomics Alvaro Cencini 68 Modern Applications of Austrian Thought 73 Marx for the 21st Century Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus Edited by Hiroshi Uchida 69 Ordinary Choices Individuals, incommensurability, and democracy Robert Urquhart Marx for the 21st Century Edited by Hiroshi Uchida With a special introduction by Terrell Carver First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This editionpublishedin theTaylor &Francis e-Library,2006. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge's collection of thousands of eBooks please goto www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2006 Editorial matter and selection, Hiroshi Uchida; individual chapters, the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-69460-0 Mastere-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-34285-2 (Adobee-ReaderFormat) ISBN 0-415-30530-6 (PrintEdition) Contents List of contributors xi Acknowledgements xiii Special introduction 1 TERRELL CARVER PART I Marx for the 21st century 7 1 Marx and modernity 9 KUNIHIKO UEMURA 2 Marx’s economic theory and the prospects for socialism 22 MAKOTO ITOH PART II Contemporary problems in Marx studies 37 3 Marx’s theory of history reappraised 39 HIROSHI UCHIDA 4 Marx and the future of post-capitalist society 53 MASANORI SASAKI 5 Marx and distributive justice 65 DAISUKE ARIE 6 Marx and the environmental problem 77 HIDEAKI KUDO x Contents 7 The theory of labour money: Implications of Marx’s critique for the Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) 89 MAKOTO NISHIBE PART III The reception of Marx into modern Japan 107 8 The Japanese concept of civil society and Marx’s bürgerliche Gesellschaft 109 HIROSHI MIZUTA 9 Marx and J.S. Mill on socialism 121 SHOHKEN MAWATARI 10 A bioeconomic Marx–Weber paradigm 135 AKITOSHI SUZUKI 11 Japanese ‘cultural eclecticism’ and a reinterpretation of Marx and Keynes on the instabilities of capitalism 148 MAKOTO NOGUCHI PART