Capitalism and the Dialectic: The Uno-Sekine Approach to Marxian Political Economy

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 rigourous dialectical analysis. Bell's clear and accessible synthesis provides economists with the tools to interrogate capitalism in a more powerful way than ever before.

John R. Bell has been researching Marxist political economy since the 1970s, assisting in the editing of the English language versions of Kozo Uno and Thomas Sekine's work. He also taught at Seneca Collage, Canada.