政治經濟學工作坊 POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP

報告題目：人的需要與社會經濟核算
時間：2015年10月13日 星期二 15:00-17:00
地點：明德主樓734
報告人：邁克爾·A.萊博維奇（Michael A. Lebowitz） 


摘要：Why should socialist accounting be different from capitalist accounting? Capitalist accounting considers transactions in the market. It measures the quantity of goods and services exchanged in the market at market prices. Within capitalism, capitalist accounting provides a record of the capitalist economy and the non-capitalist economy as if it were carried out by capitalist firms. There are some well-known problems associated with capitalist national accounting. Many occur because capitalist accounting focuses upon exchange values and not upon use values. This means that there`s no consideration of negative use values. When there are joint products of a process of production and only one of these is reflected in market transactions, then capitalist accounting yields results that lose all connection to the welfare of society. If we acknowledge the error of not considering the effects upon nature of particular economic activities, what else are we missing? The answer should be obvious to anyone who has read Karl Marx`s DAS CAPITAL. The second product—human beings. That missing second product is what I want to explore here.


報告人簡介：邁克爾·A.萊博維奇教授1937年出生于美國，是著名馬克思主義經濟學家。他最為著名的著作《超越<資本論>：馬克思的工人階級政治經濟學》曾獲2004年馬克思傳統最優秀著作獎 。他對世界各國的社會主義探索也有深刻研究。 從1965年開始，萊博維奇教授在加拿大Simon Fraser大學經濟系任教，現為該校榮休教授。


中國人民大學經濟學院 2015-10-11