Henryk Grossman

Capitalism's Contradictions (eBook, ePUB)

Studies of Economic Thought Before and After Marx

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Collected and translated by Deutscher Prize-Winning Grossman biographer Rick Kuhn, assembles several of Henryk Grossman's most important essays, and serves as an introduction to his project of recovering Marx. Grossman highlights distinctive features of Marx's economic theory by contrasting it with the views of his forerunners, from Adam Smith to Sismondi.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608467808
• Artikelnr.: 47050120

Autorenporträt

Henryk Grossman (18811950) was the most important Marxist economist of the Twentith Century. He was a founding leader of the Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia and later a member of the Polish Communist Workers Party. After holding posts as a senior public servant and professor in Poland, he was a member of the Institute for Social Research in Germany and, following the Nazi takeover, in exile. Dr Rick Kuhn is an honorary associate professor in Sociology at the Australian National University and long term socialist activist, who has written extensively on Marxist theory as well as Australian politics and political economy. His Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism won the 2007 Deutscher Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements iii
Introduction by Rick Kuhn 1
Simonde de Sismondi and his economic theories 25
Fifty years of struggle over Marxism 1883-1932 71
Marx, classical political economy and the problem of dynamics 111
The evolutionist revolt against classical economics 163
W. Playfair, the earliest theorist of capitalist development 197
References 215
Index 239