"In this book, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase - anything goes as with freakonomics. Each article is accompanied by a preamble setting the context in which it appeared, with a new...

"In this book, Ben Fine offers a selection of his key articles charting the rise of economics imperialism. Each article is accompanied by a preamble that sets the context in which it appeared, with an overall introduction drawing out the overall significance for contemporary scholarship"--

1. Introduction -- 2. Smith, Ricardo and the first rupture in economic thought -- 3. Mill's conciliation, Marx's transgression -- 4. Political economy as history: Smith, Ricardo, Marx -- 5. Not by theory alone : German historismus -- 6. Marginalism and the Methodenstreit -- 7. The Marshallian...

ch. 1. Introduction / Ben Fine -- ch. 2. The law of value in Ricardo and Marx / Geoffrey Pilling -- ch. 3. Production, circulation and value / Ira Gerstein -- ch. 4. Transformations of physical conditions of production : Steedman's economic metaphysics / Heiner Ganssmann -- ch. 5. On Marx's...

Developments within economics of incorporating the historical (and the social, institutional, etc more generally) have been welcomed as progress over excessive formalism and lack of realism. But, by situating these developments in terms of the shifting relationship between economics, the...

"John Weeks (1941-2020) was one of the most prominent Marxist economists of his generation. His writings inspired many activists and socialist economists around the world. This book brings together a selection of his writings engaging with and developing the Marxist tradition. These essays...