Michael Roberts Blog
“Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre have published an insightful book that explains how Marx’s theory of value operates to explain the trends and fluctuations in modern capitalist economies.”
Available in English on Michael Roberts Blog, in
Italian on Antropocene.org
E. Ahmet Tonak with sendika.org (Turkish language review)
“Başlıkta “kitabı kaçırmayın” derken hem İngilizce bilen okuyuculara hem de yerli yayıncılara seslenmeye çalıştık.”
Neville Spencer on greenleft.org.au
“In Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers, Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre make a valuable contribution to Marxist economics, first, in demonstrating the empirical credibility of the labour theory of value and, second, in showing how it can explain the economics of imperialism and environmental degradation.”
José Blanco on lajornada.com.mx
Spanish language article
“Güney Işıkara y Patrick Mokre, discípulos de Anwar Shaikh, con su Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers. Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown han hecho una formidable contribución, aportando un cálculo sobre la inmensa transferencia de valor desde las economías periféricas a las del núcleo dominante, en el espacio industrial.”
https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025/12/02/opinion/la-rapina
Prof. Sara Bardhan in the Journal of Transarea Studies
Spanish language article
“What makes for a highlight in this section (and the monograph, more generally) is Işıkara
and Mokre’s excellent contextualisation of Marxist value theory in real-world economics.”
Federico Fuentes in the LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Interview with Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre
“From its start, the capitalist mode of production has been international. Its expansion across borders adopted and transformed pre-existing patterns of trade, colonisation and exploitation. When capitalism became the dominant mode of production — first in certain regions and eventually globally — it became clear that internationalisation was an innate feature of capital accumulation, generating specific forms of domination.”
Also available in Green Left Issue 1449 and in Spanish on Resumen Latinoamericano as well as on rebelion.org
E. Ahmet Tonak on Historical Materialism
A society that does not produce will perish. Key questions arise: what is produced, how it is produced, how the value and price of products are determined, and who receives what share of the wealth through which mechanisms. These are the core questions of the Marxist labour theory of value. Işıkara and Mokre’s book goes beyond these and applies this theory creatively to contemporary issues such as imperialism and environmental destruction, enriching our theoretical horizon.
Özgür Orhangazi on Evrensel
Çalışmanın bulguları oldukça çarpıcı. ABD, Britanya, Japonya, Fransa ve İtalya gibi ülkelerin başını çektiği bir grup ülke, dünya üretiminin yaklaşık yüzde 6’sına denk gelen ve incelenen dönem boyunca toplamda 70 trilyon avroyu aşan bir değer transferinin başlıca alıcıları durumunda.
https://www.evrensel.net/yazi/99060/emperyalizmin-iktisadi-mantigi
Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre in JACOBIN
Our own recent book, Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers, was produced in that context, building on Shaikh’s concepts of real competition and production prices to investigate competition, imperialism, and ecological breakdown with a large and novel dataset.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/shaikh-capitalism-marxism-economic-theory
Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre on developingeconomics.org
The unequal exchange literature provides a consistent framework to understand how imperialism operates in trade through transfers of value, through capital exports and debt traps, and in value capture by non production industries like finance and trade. In our forthcoming book titled Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers, we provide a framework to estimate international value transfers brought up by the market mechanism.