Table of Contents

Part I: The state in capitalist development. Agrarian capitalism and poor relief in England, c. 1500-1790: Rethinking the origins of the welfare state (L. Patriquin). Taxation and primitive accumulation: The case of colonial Africa (M. Forstater). The state-capital relationship and the significance of incorporating the role of labor (E. Zaky). Political institutions and economic imperatives: Bringing agency back in (M. Konings). Part II: Abstract labor, price, and technical choice in capitalism. Quantifying abstract labor: "Aliquot Part" reasoning in Marx's value theory (B. Roberts). Exchange, demand and the market-price of production: reconciling traditional and monetary approaches to value and price (D. Kristjanson-Gural). Testing Okishio's criterion of technical choice (C.-S. Park). Testing for the Marxian-classical criterion of technical choice G. Dumeenil, D. Levy). Part III: Socialism. Reflections on economic democracy (P. Cockshott, A. Cottrell). Part IV: On the production of knowledge. On the production of knowledge (G. Carchedi).