Productive and unproductive labor: a reply to Houston and Laibman

Simon Mohun

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2002, vol. 34, issue 2, 203-220

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Productive labor; Unproductive labor; Rate of profit; U.S. economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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