Capitalism's contradictions : studies of economic theory before and after Marx / Henryk Grossman ; translated by Ian Birchall, Rick Kuhn and Einde O'Callaghan ; edited and introduced by Rick Kuhn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950, author.

Contributor:

Birchall, Ian, translator.

Kuhn, D. Richard, editor, translator.

O'Callaghan, Einde, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Capital.

Marxian economics.

Economics.

Physical Description:

294 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2017.

Summary:

Henryk Grossman was one of the best-known and most influential Marxist economists of the twentieth century, yet most of his work remains unavailable to English-speaking audiences. His most famous book, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System-written while Grossman was a member of the illustrious Frankfurt School-has been a point of reference for several generations of revolutionaries discontent with both Keynesian and Stalinist claims about Capitalism's stability. This volume, collected and introduced by award-winning Grossman biographer Rick Kuhn, assembles several of the Galician Marxist's most important essays, and serves as an accessible introduction to his project of "recovering" Marx. Throughout the collection, Grossman highlights distinctive features of Marx's economic theory by contrasting it with the views of his forerunners, from Adam Smith to Jean Charles Sismondi. He then moves on to show how many Marxist economists import faulty assumptions from mainstream economics into their analyses, and in the process provides a unique overview of the major debates among Marxists over politics and economics between Marx's death and the rise of Fascism in Germany. Book jacket.

Contents:

Simonde de Sismondi and his economic theories

Fifty years of struggle over Marxism, 1883-1932

Marx, classical political economy and the problem of dynamics

The evolutionist revolt against classical economics

W. Playfair, the earliest theorist of capitalist development.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-278) and index.

ISBN:

1608467791

9781608467792

OCLC:

959034945