Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism - 'Marx's Economy and Beyond' and Other Essays (Harvey Mark)(Pevná vazba)

This book arose out of a friendship between a political philosopher and an economic sociologist, and their recognition of an urgent political need to address the extreme inequalities of wealth and power in contemporary societies.
The book provides a new analysis of what generates inequalities in rights to income, property and public goods. It claims to move beyond Marx, both in its analysis of inequality and exploitation, and in its concept of just distribution. In order to do so, it critiques Marx's foundational Labour Theory of Value and its closed-circuit conception of the economy. It points to the major historical transformations that create educational and knowledge inequalities, inequalities in rights to public goods that combine with those of rights to private wealth. In two historical chapters, it argues that industrial capitalism introduced new forms of coerced
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