著者
小幡 道昭
出版者
経済理論学会
雑誌
季刊経済理論 (ISSN:18825184)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.48, no.1, pp.15-25, 2011-04-20 (Released:2017-04-25)

The paper argues that theoretical framework of Marxian economics should be rebuilt under the rise of newly emerging capitalism such as China, India and Brazil. Based on the recognition that the setback of neo-liberalism revealed by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 is not the end of globalism, but the beginning of the full-fledged development of globalization, we have fundamentally changed the stage theory of historical development of capitalism which insists that capitalism has a single origin and goes through three stages of generation, development and decline, into the Multilayered Origins Theory of Capitalism such that different types of capitalism swarms intermittently in different regions. It tells us that structural change comparable to the rise of England with decline of the Netherlands, the subsequent rise of Germany with decline of Britain, is now happening between the advanced capitalist countries in the 20th century and emerging economies in the 21st century. Such understanding about the history of capitalist development requires abolishing the single image of capitalism based on the theory of pure capitalism such as Kozo Uno proposed. Here we examined three aspects of his idea, (1) significance of dividing theory into two layers, (2) limitations of the idea of closing to and leaving from the pure state of capitalism, and (3) inconsistency in dividing stages into mercantilism, liberalism and imperialism. Alternatively after illustrating the Transformation Approach focused on structural changes in capitalism, we try to check the validity of the theory by studying three contemporary issues, namely, employment, environment and private property of knowledge and information. It leads us to the idea of maturity in advanced capitalism after neo-liberalism. Matured capitalism, though flexible to change with dismantling the social relations and spreading ideology that persuade people to think it natural, still cannot return to welfare state capitalism in 20th century under the rise of emerging capitalism. It has no choice without neo-socialism.