Overview
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
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jan 03, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1542320194
- | ISBN-13: 9781542320191
