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Productive and unproductive labor: a reply to Houston and Laibman

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  • Simon Mohun

    (Department of Economics, Queen Mary, University of London, London El 4NS, UK s.mohun@qmul.ac.uk)

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Responding to criticisms of Mohun (1996) by Houston (1997) and Laibman (1999) in the RRPE, this paper explores the empirical consequences of the competing definitions proposed for productive labor, and concludes that abandoning the productive-unproductive labor distinction renders the Marxian theory of capitalist accumulation an unconvincing account of U.S. accumulation from 1948 to 1989.

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  • Simon Mohun, 2002. "Productive and unproductive labor: a reply to Houston and Laibman," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 34(2), pages 203-220, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:34:y:2002:i:2:p:203-220
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    1. Jonathan F. Cogliano, 2017. "Surplus Value Production and Realization in Marxian Theory - Applications to the U.S., 1987-2015," Working Paper Series 2017-01, Dickinson College, Department of Economics.

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