Measuring the wealth of nations : the political economy of national accounts /

Main Author: Shaikh, Anwar
Other Authors: Tonak, Ertuğrul Ahmet
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1994.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic theoretical foundations
  • 3. Marxian categories and national accounts: Money value flows
  • 4. Marxian categories and national accounts: Labor value calculations
  • 5.Empirical estimates of Marxian categories
  • 6. A critical analysis of previous empirical studies
  • 7. Summary and conclusions
  • App. A: Methodology of the input-output database
  • App. B: Operations on the real estate and finance sectors
  • App. C: Summary input-output variables
  • App. D: Interpolation of key input-output variables
  • App. E: Annual estimates of primary variables
  • App. F: Productive and unproductive labor
  • App. G: Wages and variable capital
  • App. H: Surplus and profit
  • App. I: Rates of exploitation of productive and unproductive workers
  • App. J: Measures of productivity
  • App. K: Government absorption of surplus value
  • App. L: Aglietta's index of the rate of surplus value
  • App. M: Mage and NIPA measures of the capitalist sector gross product
  • App. N: The net transfer between workers and the state, and its impact on the rate of surplus value.