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From the 1960s to the 1990s the ground-breaking Japanese economists Kozo Uno and Thomas Sekine developed a masterful reconfiguration of Marxist economics. The most well-known aspect of which is the levels of analysis approach to the study of capitalism. Written in Japanese, the Uno-Sekine approach to Marx's work is little understood in West. John Bell seeks to correct this, explaining how problematic elements of Marxian Political Economy such as the law of value and the law of relative surplus population can be solved by using a more rigorous dialectical analysis. Bell's clear and accessible synthesis provides economists with the tools to interrogate capitalism in a more powerful way than ever before.

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'Rarely do refined analytical clarity and theoretical precision combine with careful contextualiSation and adamant intellectual honesty to expound a levels-of-abstraction approach' -- Stefanos Kourkoulakos, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto '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. '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 'A clear introduction to a groundbreaking but little-known approach to Marxian economics: the Uno-Sekine approach' -- Tom Sekine

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 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 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 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 Kourkoulakos, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto

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John R. Bell taught for over three decades at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Capitalism and the Dialectic (Pluto, 2009).

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