Introduction: Dark Designs -- 1 The Enduring Importance of Primitive Accumulation -- 2 The Theory of Primitive Accumulation -- 3 Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws -- 4 The Social Division of Labor and Household Production -- 5 Elaborating the Model of Primitive Accumulation -- 6 The Dawn of Political Economy -- 7 Sir James Steuart's Secret History of Primitive Accumulation -- 8 Adam Smith's Charming Obfuscation of Class -- 9 The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith -- 10 Adam Smith and the Ideological Role of the Colonies -- 11 Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor -- 12 The Classics as Cossacks: Classical Political Economy versus the Working Class -- 13 The Counterattack -- 14 Notes on Development -- Conclusion
Summary
Rethinks the history of classical political economy by assessing the Marxian idea of "primitive accumulation," the process by which a propertyless working class is created
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-405 and index
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