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Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Foreword -- ‎Preface to the Second Edition -- ‎Preface to the First (1994) Edition (Excerpts) -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Figures, Charts and Tables -- ‎Figures -- ‎Charts -- ‎Tables -- ‎Chapter 1. Invisible Leviathan: Marx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism -- ‎1. Reflections on Wealth, Human Development and the 'Triumph' of Capitalism -- ‎2. The Triple Crisis of the Twenty-First Century -- ‎3. The Necessity of Marx's Value Theory in the Twilight of Capitalism -- ‎Chapter 2. The Value Abstraction and the Dialectic of Social Development -- ‎1. The Value Abstraction in Pre-capitalist History: Cognitive Faculties as Forces of Production -- ‎2. Cohen, Sayer and Söhn-Rethel on Historical Materialism -- ‎3. Value Relations and Social Progress -- ‎4. An Unresolved Issue -- ‎Chapter 3. Science, Ideology and 'Economic Value' -- ‎1. The Labour Theory of Value in Classical Political Economy -- ‎2. The Economics Profession Repudiates the Labour Theory of Value -- ‎3. Labour Value: From 'Ricardian Socialism' to Marx -- ‎4. Marginalism versus Marx -- ‎5. Science, Ideology and the Theory of Value -- ‎Chapter 4. Marx's Capital and the Early Critiques -- ‎1. Elements of Marx's Theory of Value -- ‎2. Value, Capital, and Exploitation -- ‎3. Value, Capitalist Competition, and the General Rate of Profit -- ‎4. Traditional Criticisms and Orthodox Responses -- ‎5. The Controversy Surrounding the 'Transformation Problem' -- ‎Chapter 5. Currents within the Value Controversy -- ‎1. The Second Phase of the Value Controversy -- ‎2. The Neo-Ricardian Challenge -- ‎3. Neo-orthodoxy and the Rediscovery of the Value-Form -- ‎4. Fundamentalist Value Theory -- ‎5. Trends in the Value Controversy since the 1990s -- ‎Chapter 6. An Assessment of the Value Controversy -- ‎1. Preliminary Thoughts on the Road Just Travelled.

Presented at Upgrading technology and infrastructure in a finance-challenged economy: a USCID water management conference held on March 23-26, 2010 in Sacramento, California. ; Agriculture dominates economic activity within Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, with 41 percent of Australia's gross value of agricultural production generated from the basin and about two-thirds of this total production exported. Historically low rainfall has resulted in cutbacks in irrigator water allocations, urban water restrictions and reduced environmental flows. A key element of the Victorian Government's response to water scarcity has been to establish the Northern Victoria Irrigation Renewal Project (NVIRP) to plan, design and deliver a program of works that will modernize the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District (GMID). NVIRP is being funded by the State Government $600M AUS, urban water users $300M AUS, GMID water users $100M AUS and Australian Commonwealth Government $1 billion AUS. Modernization of the GMID irrigation distribution system will increase the standard of water delivery service to its customers, providing near-on-demand water delivery on-farm and a better managed delivery system for operator Goulburn-Murray Water. The project will reduce system losses (currently 780 to 870 GL per annum on average) and is anticipated to generate up to 425 GL of long term average annual water savings. This paper discusses the five core elements of the modernization program: 1. Automation of the main backbone channel system; 2. Farm to backbone connections; 3. Upgrading metering technologies; 4. Water savings; 5. Challenges of investing in modernizing irrigation assets and environmental flows simultaneously.

AbstractThe publication last year in New Left Review of Robert Brenner's book-length essay 'Uneven Development and the Long Downturn: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Boom to Stagnation, 1950-1998' has already provoked more discussion and controversy on the socialist Left than any other political-economic analysis in recent memory. Predictably, it has also elicited a number of highly critical response from proponents of Marx's theories of labour value and economic crisis. Amongst other things, Brenner has been charged with a one-sided preoccupation with capital-to-capital (competitive) relations at the expense of the capital-wage labour (class struggle) relation, with misinterpreting and dismissing Marx's law of the falling tendency of the rate of profit, and with ignoring Marx's value categories entirely.

Critically examines Robert Brenner's "Uneven Development and the Long Downturn: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Boom to Stagnation, 1950-1998" (1998). Although his data compilation & analysis are noteworthy, it is maintained that his focus on competitive relations neglects the importance of the class struggle, bypassing value categories like Marx's law of the falling tendency of the rate of profit. However, it is suggested that much of Brenner's argument can be adjusted to permit a broader view of the dynamics of capitalism. A synopsis & assessment of Brenner's argument is followed by a reading of his text in relation to Marxist theories of value/crisis. A key difficulty is his understanding of realization problems & the falling rate of profit associated with overproduction. It is argued that the distinction between productive/unproductive labor is vital to profit-rate decline, & the decrease in the rate of profit that has occurred in advanced capitalist economies is due to a secular rise in the proportion of labor that is unproductive of surplus value. 1 Table, 16 References. J. Lindroth