Background
Laibman, David was born on December 25, 1942 in New York City. Son of Erwin Milton Laibman, Beatrice Rosenberg Laibman.
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This text brings together studies in various aspects of the theory of the capitalist economy. It focuses on major themes of the Marxist tradition that postulate the existence and importance of social relations and structures underlying the esoteric realm of economic categories: prices, profits, wages, etc. The author takes a reappraising, critical look at the concepts of the deep structure - value, explitation, immanent crisis - using the analytical tools of modern economics to improve those concepts. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 explores the essential nature of capitalism, re-examining problems in the theory of value and exploitation. Part 2 tackles the issue of capitalism-specific paths of growth and technical change, putting forward a rigorous theory of biased technical change and non-steady-state growth. Part 3 examines the cyclical character of capitalist growth and the theory of crises. Finally, Part 4 places capitalism in the wider framework of modes of production, considering the theory of precapitalist formations and aspects of the theory and practical experience of socialism. The guiding theme is the combination, or confrontation, of rigorous, quantitative analytical techniques with equally demanding qualitative and political-economic conceptualization. The book's premise is that this interface is essential to a progressive yet distinctively Marxist social theory.
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Blends insights from several disciplines to offer a general theory of social evolution. Does history have a direction? Are there principles that unify our experience and show connections among diverse places, times, and cultures? Seeking to answer these questions, Deep History offers a fresh theory of social evolution while thinking grandly about the human condition. With his theory based in the Marxian and historical materialist tradition, David Laibman starts from scratch and utilizes some of the best insights in economics and economic history, sociology, political science, anthropology, history, and philosophy to construct a new framework for understanding the most general aspects of social evolution. He then applies this framework to modern era capitalist societies and, projecting it on a postcapitalist or socialist future, captures an understanding of the core momentum that has characterized our lived experience, a momentum considerate of diversity, contingency, and the role of human consciousness over time. “David Laibman’s Deep History is to be welcomed—both for its reassertion of the scientific method against those forms of historical relativism that have become all too common in the wake of the linguistic turn, and for its defense of the socialist political project in the post-Soviet era.” — Science & Society “This book contains the best overview of the key variables determining capitalist development I’ve read. It makes just about all earlier work in crisis theory look one-sided and inadequate.” — Tony Smith, author of Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the “New Economy” “A book like this, which provides an historical materialist account of history, an analysis of the nature and abstract logic of capitalism, and a theory of socialism is going to attract criticism from all quarters. But Laibman advances ideas that reflect years of thinking, that are clearly and systematically developed, and that are presented in an intelligent and well-argued way.” — William H. Shaw, author of Business Ethics, Fifth Edition
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Laibman, David was born on December 25, 1942 in New York City. Son of Erwin Milton Laibman, Beatrice Rosenberg Laibman.
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics in 1973 at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New New York
His dissertation, The Invariance Condition for Value-Price Transformation in a Linear, Non-Decomposable Two-Sector Model, dealt with problems in Marxist value theory. Laibman teaches economic theory, political economy, and mathematical economics, at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels at City University of New New York He is the Editor of Science & Society, a quarterly Marxist journal founded in 1936. Laibman is the author of five books: Value, Technical Change and Crisis: Explorations in Marxist Economic Theory (1992), Capitalist Macrodynamics: A Systematic Introduction (1997), Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential (2007), Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination (2012), and Passion and Patience: Society, History, and Revolutionary Vision (2015).
He is also a fingerstyle guitarist, especially its application to the ragtime music of the early twentieth century.
With Eric Schoenberg, Laibman recorded The New Ragtime Guitar for Folkways Records in 1970. His solo album, Classical Ragtime Guitar, was released by Rounder Records in 1980.
Laibman has worked with a variety of artists in the early folk world, using his advanced finger picking technique. One notable album is "Way Out West" by Scottish Folksinger Alex Campbell, in 1963.
Of note is the track "Orange Blossom Special" which showcases the talent that Laibman was developing.
He issued a Digital Video Disc, Guitar Artistry of David Laibman Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop, 2007.
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Member of World Association Political Economy (Distinguished Achievement award 2010), Union for Radical Political Economic.
Married Marcia Elaine Klugman. Children: Anthony Klugman, Leslie, Raquel Klugman.