System of Economical contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542320191)

The System of Economic Contradictions, or Philosophy of Poverty (French: Syst me des contradictions conomiques ou Philosophie de la mis re often erroneously referred to as The Philosophy of Misery) is a work by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon published in 1846. According to George Lichtheim, the "doctrine that emerged went something like this: what people really needed were use values, whereas they were actually being offered exchanges values by the market. These represented thesis and antithesis; Proudhon looked for a synthesis which he termed 'constituted value.' This amounted to saying that goods should be exchanged in proportion to the amount of labour embodied in them - an arrangement that would do away with market fluctuations and at the same time satisfy the requirement of justice."

Author: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
ISBN-10: 1542320194
ISBN-13: 9781542320191
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2017
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d