"Value Without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō's (1897-1977) theory of 'pure capitalism' in the light of the method and object of Marx's Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value,...

Sraffa's elegant book transformed the treatment of prices of production. He showed that at a theoretical level prices of production and wage-profit curves were capable of complex movement, and the wage-profit frontiers could exhibit reswitching and reverse capital deepening. These results were...