Preface -- The sumer before the war -- Industrializing capitalism : classic works of the twentieth century -- Corresponding thoughts of Benjamin, Kafka, Bakhtin and the Prague School -- On the fringe -- Archaic money -- Life-needs and money sequences, outside or inside a sealed vessel -- Life as...

An extended formal model of value and price is constructed that includes within it "specialized labor" according to occupation, and therefore variations in real wage rates between workers. A "classical Marxist" approach is taken, and the "new approach" of Dumenil, Foley and Lipietz is...

A novel conception of money and the State is offered, in the context of post-golden-age financial and political systems (roughly from 1980 to the present), and with regard to the sovereign-currency States, focusing particularly on the USA. The basic elements of the paper are: (1) a novel...