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REPLY TO RILEY Harvey, David
New Left review,
11/2021
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Peer reviewed
T thank Dylan Riley for the opportunity to clarify some of the arguments put forward in my article 'Rate and Mass' published in NLR 130. My intent was to take some of Marx's key propositions, mostly ...drawn from the Grundrisse, to situate them within the overall framework of his theory of capital, and to indicate where and how such propositions might shed light on the state of contemporary capitalism. I tried to be faithful to Marx's formulations and to this end incorporated substantial quotations from his texts. I leave it to readers to decide if my arguments are faithful to Marx or merely 'Harveyian' or 'Ptolemaic' constructions, as Riley depicts them. The capitalist seeks to command as much mass of value and surplus value as possible. Possession of and command over this mass is the source of capitalist class power as well as the ultimate measure of an individual capitalist's wealth and success.
This short piece further asserts the utility of the labour theory of value, the importance of global value chains and the incoherence of the concept of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE).
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The issues of constructing and developing an automated system that is adaptive to external internal factors of personnel management are important for improvement of personal management of modern ...enterprises. Due to these issues there is a need in the automation the process of approving both strategic and operational plans at the enterprise. To reach this goal the adaptive personnel management system under consideration is built on the basis of an automated dynamic model, taking into account decision support in the personnel management process for each employee, which makes it possible to reduce the significance of the discrepancy between strategic and operational tasks. The results of a study of local sustainability for the constructed automated personnel management system make it possible to draw a conclusion about possibilities to increase the efficiency of using human resources in the enterprise with the use of the system. The proposed automated personnel management system is presented in the form of cross-links, which helps prevent duplication of employee tasks.
Research on Data Theory of Value Haijian, Li; Li, Zhao
China economist (Beijing, China),
05/2024, Volume:
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This paper explores the data theory of value along the line of reasoning epochal characteristics of data - theoretical innovation - paradigmatic transformation and, through a comparison of hard and ...soft factors and observation of data peculiar features, it draws the conclusion that data have the epochal characteristics of non-competitiveness and non-exclusivity, decreasing marginal cost and increasing marginal return, non-physical and intangible form, and non-finiteness and non-scarcity. It is the epochal characteristics of data that undermine the traditional theory of value and innovate the "production-exchange " theory, including data value generation, data value realization, data value rights determination and data value pricing. From the perspective of data value generation, the levels of data quality, processing, use and connectivity, data application scenarios and data openness will influence data value. From the perspective of data value realization, data, as independent factors of production, show value creation effect, create a value multiplier effect by empowering other factors of production, and substitute other factors of production to create a zero-price effect. From the perspective of data value rights determination, based on the theory of property, the tragedy of the private outweighs the comedy of the private with respect to data, and based on the theory of sharing economy, the comedy of the commons outweighs the tragedy of the commons with respect to data. From the perspective of data pricing, standardized data products can be priced according to the physical product attributes, and non-standardized data products can be priced according to the virtual product attributes. Based on the epochal characteristics of data and theoretical innovation, the "production-exchange " paradigm has undergone a transformation from "using tangible factors to produce tangible products and exchanging tangible products for tangible products" to "using intangible factors to produce tangible products and exchanging intangible products for tangible products" and ultimately to "using intangible factors to produce intangible products and exchanging intangible products for intangible products".
In the first volume of Capital, Marx argued that the labor theory of value could only be discovered in capitalist societies. Building on Marx’s premise, this article examines Ibn Khaldun’s (1377) The ...Muqaddimah, which presents one of the first labor theories of value in world history. After explaining different elements of Ibn Khaldun’s labor theory of value, the article revisits what Giovanni Arrighi referred to as the “nondebates of the 1970s” and proposes that North Africa was already incorporated into an Italian centered capitalist world-economy in the fourteenth century. Since a key element of Marx’s argument was the impossibility of the emergence of abstract labor in societies (e.g. ancient Greece) which do not have the idea of equality of human beings and human labor, in the latter part, the article analyzes Ibn Khaldun’s theory of race and human equality. We show that Ibn Khaldun, through his comparative and historical observations, acknowledged the equality of all humans and the constructed nature of race, influenced by geography, history, and political economy. The world-historical analysis and theoretical interventions of the article helps us rethink capitalism and racism as two major pillars of modernity.
Why do workers participate in their own exploitation? This article moves beyond the situational production of consent that has dominated studies of the labor process and outlines the relational ...production of labor's surplus value. Using a case of unpaid women who perform valuable work for VIP nightclubs, I present ethnographic data on the VIP party circuit from New York, the Hamptons, Miami, and Cannes, as well as 84 interviews with party organizers and guests. Party promoters, mostly male brokers, appropriate surplus value from women in four stages: recruitment, mobilization, performance, and control. Relational work between promoters and women, cemented by gifts and strategic intimacies, frames women's labor as leisure and friendship, and boundary work legitimizes women's work as distinct from sexual labor. When boundaries, media, and meanings of relationships do not appropriately align, as in relational mismatches, women experience the VIP party less as leisure and more as work, and they are less likely to participate. My findings embed the labor process in a relational infrastructure and hold insights for explaining why people work for free in culture and technology sectors of the post-Fordist economy.
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The metabolic link between human labour and nature is undeniable, and may be explained as a process, intrinsic to living beings, of infoautopoiesis or information self-production; a sensory ...commensurable, self-referential, homeorhetic feedback process immanent to Gregory Bateson's difference which makes a difference. This is what allows the discovery of the immanence of information and productivity of labour. The productivity of labour is determined amongst other things by the workers' average degree of skill, the level of development of science and its technological application, the social organization of the process of production, the extent and effectiveness of the means of production, and the conditions found in the natural environment. Thus, the greater the productivity of labour the greater the production of use-values as commodities, and the less the value of the commodities due to the reduced labour-time socially necessary for their production. This implied relationship, between the productivity of labour, use-value, and value, may be evaluated by examining the process of generation of relative surplus value. An algebraic approach shows how the productivity of labour is incorporated into the labour theory of value. A parallel approach, using Bateson's definition of information allows the discovery of the immanence of information and productivity of labour, and is shown to correspond to the previously obtained algebraic construction incorporating the productivity of labour into the labour theory of value. In short, relative surplus value is an inevitable consequence of the immanence of information and productivity of labour. KEYWORDS: Labour theory of value; Information; Infoautopoiesis; Productivity of labour; Relative surplus value
This paper revisits the debate on the relevance of the labor theory of value for the anthropological task. It argues that the labor theory of value can creatively inform and reformulate in critical ...ways a variety of social issues addressed through anthropological lenses. The argument is sustained by two main exercises: first, a critical overview of the foundations of the labor theory of value outlines the reasons why it opened new grounds for anthropological and, more generally, for social-scientific enquiries. Second, a discussion of the key points of friction between scholarship that attempts to develop an “anthropological” theory of value as an end in itself and anthropological scholarship that resorts to the (labor) theory of value to critically inform research.
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Utilizando uma metodologia inovadora, este trabalho mede o valor das transferências intersetoriais da renda fundiária no Uruguai e seu peso relativo no valor nacional da mais-valia durante o período ...1955-2019. Para tanto, o artigo identifica os mecanismos pelos quais a renda fundiária é transferida dos proprietários para os capitais industriais e comerciais. Os principais resultados mostram que as transferências da renda fundiária, em particular por meio da sobrevalorização da taxa de câmbio, foi um mecanismo recorrente e central para a acumulação de capital. Essas transferências complementam a mais-valia apropriada pelos capitais individuais, porém, ao mesmo tempo, consolidam o caráter rentista do Uruguai devido à sobrevalorização crônica da taxa de câmbio
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