Robert Bryer - Accounting for History in Marx’s Capital: The Missing Link

Accounting for History
in Marxs Capital

Heterodox Studies in the Critique of Political Economy

Series Editor: Andrew Kliman

The outbreak of the global economic crisis in 2007 has led to renewed discussion of heterodox economics and Karl Marxs contributions. Heterodox Studies in the Critique of Political Economy contributes to, and seeks to, broaden the focus of these discussions. It welcomes proposals from authors working within various heterodox traditions. Contributions to the critique of political economy in the tradition founded by Marx are strongly encouraged, as are other marginalized voices and perspectives. Thus, nonacademics, scholars from Asia and the global South, and proponents of perspectives that are underrepresented in the existing academic heterodox literature are encouraged to submit proposals. Both single-authored works and edited collections are welcome.

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Alan Freeman, London Metropolitan University

Seongjin Jeong, Gyeongsang National University

Nick Potts, Southampton Solent University

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Accounting for History
in Marxs Capital

The Missing Link

Rob Bryer

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My thanks to Professor Andrew Kliman, for his invitation to explore Marx and accounting, for the opportunities opened by his work (with colleagues) on the TSSI, and for his editorial guidance, and to Professor David Oldroyd (University of Newcastle, UK), for his many helpful comments on the preliminary draft.

Special thanks are due to Vin Bryer and Roger Hulme, my intellectual partners, sine qua non.

I thank the following individuals and organizations for allowing me to quote from their published materials:

Andrew Kliman for permission to quote from Alternatives to Capitalism: What happens after the revolution?; Brill Academic Publishers for permission to quote from Alex Callinicos, Making History , 2004 Brill Academic Publishers; Peter Sarris, Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian , 2006 Cambridge University Press, reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press through PLSclear; Emerald Publishing Ltd for permission to quote from Salvador Carmona and Mahmoud Ezzamel, 2007, Accounting and accountability in ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 20 (2): 177209; Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Collected Works, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, reproduced with permission of Lawrence & Wishart Ltd through PLSclear; New Left Review for permission to quote from Karl Marx, Grundriss e, and the three volumes of Capital ; Christopher Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400800 , 2005 Oxford Publishing Ltd, reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press through PLSclear; Radical Philosophy for permission to quote from John Mepham, 1972, The Theory of Ideology in Capital , Radical Philosophy 2: 1219; Barry Hindess and Paul Q Hirst, Pre-capitalist modes of production, 1975 Routledge and Kegan Paul, reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK; Stuart Hall , The problem of ideology Marxism without guarantees, Journal of Communication Inquiry 10 (2): 2844, 1986 SAGE Publications, r eprinted by Permission of SAGE Publications, Inc.; Extracts from Karl Marxs Theory of History: A Defence by Gerald Cohen, reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (www.petersfraserdunlop.com) on behalf of the Estate of Gerald Cohen.

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