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I – Introduction: what is unproductive labour, II – Unproductive labour before Smith, III – Physiocracy: labour productive of surplus – Condillac, IV – Adam Smith: the struggle against rent, V – Supporters of Smith on unproductive labour, VI – Critics of Smith on services and intellectual labour, VII – The subjective approach (all labour productive), VIII – The deadlock of unproductive consumption, X – Underconsumption and crises, X – Technical progress, XI – Marxs blind alley on unproductive labour, XII – Investment in human capital, XIII – Overproduction versus underconsumption, XIV – Fall and revival of Smiths distinction, XV – Crises and underconsumption in Marx and his followers, XVI – Productiveness of public expenditures, XVII – Productive labour in the 1960s-70s Marxist thought, XVIII – New middle classes and human capital, XIX – The welfare state as investment in human capital, XX – Saturation: the growth of unproductive labour, XXI – The future of productive labour
