Economics

Many thinkers have been influenced to some extent by the ...

(Rob Albritton)

 

Many thinkers have been influenced to some extent by the work of Japanese Political Economist Kozo Uno, and many more have failed to understand its subtleties and its strengths. ... John Bell, who has worked closely with Sekine for over 25 years, is best placed to write a much needed clear and accessible introduction.

(Rob Albritton)

 

This book is a clear introduction to a ground-breaking but ...

(Tom Sekine)

 

This book is a clear introduction to a ground-breaking but little-known approach to Marxian economics: the Uno-Sekine approach. ... John Bell seeks to correct this, explaining how crucial themes of Marxian economics such as the law of value and the law of relative surplus population can be restated by using a more rigorous dialectical analysis.

(Tom Sekine)

 

On important questions of Marxist theory around which debate in ...

(Richard Westra, Associate Professor, Puk)

 

On important questions of Marxist theory around which debate in Western academies began to swirl from the 1970s onward the Japanese political economist Kozo Uno had already made major interventions decades earlier ... John Bell’s book helps to fill an intellectual gap in the profession of Marxist studies.

(Richard Westra, Associate Professor, Pukyong National University, South Korea is author of Political Economy and Globalization.)

 

Rarely do refined analytical clarity and theoretical precision combine with ...

(Stefanos KourkoulakosDepartment of Polit)

 

Rarely do refined analytical clarity and theoretical precision combine with careful contextualization and adamant intellectual honesty to expound a levels-of-abstraction approach. ... And even more rarely do they produce a compelling alternative to the ubiquitous a-historical treatments of dialectics as a general method good for all times and subjects.

(Stefanos KourkoulakosDepartment of Political Science,York University, Toronto )