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A very political political economist: Rosa Luxemburg's theory of wages

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Publication date2009
Host publicationRosa Luxemburg and the critique of political economy
EditorsRiccardo Bellofiore
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherRoutledge
Pages139-174
Number of pages36
ISBN (Print)9780415405706
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameHistory of economic thought

Abstract

A core weakness of Marx' theory of wages is the indeterminacy of the analytic concept of the ' value of labour power'. Rosa Luxemburg is shown to have dealt with this problem which is at the basis of the concept of surplus value in a rather ingenious way.