Economics 710 - Political Economy III
Spring
2024
01
3.00
Patrick Mason
M W 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
12382
To be Announced by Department
pmason@umass.edu
Advanced treatment of contemporary theoretical and empirical research in Marxian political economy. Topics include: debates in the labor theory of value; the so-called transformation problem; circuit of capital model; theories of exploitation; theory of finance capital and imperialism; distribution of surplus value - interest, commercial profit, rent; profitability and capital accumulation; theories of capitalist crisis. Prerequisite: ECON 708 or 709
Open to Graduate students only. PreReq: ECON 708 or 709