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.”
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/the-frontiers-of-value/
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.”
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.
