Vorwort -- Karl Marx’ Religionskritik: Religion als Seufzer der bedrängten Kreatur und Opium der Volks -- War Karl Marx ein politischer Denker? -- Hat nur Marx einen Bart oder auch seine Philosophie? -- Karl Marx’/Friedrich Engels’ Kritik am dialogischen Kommunismus Ludwig...

1: Karl Marx on Capitalism -- 2: Hyman Minsky on Financial Crises -- 3: John Maynard Keynes on Debt and Demand -- 4: Frank Knight on Risk and Uncertainty -- 5: Barbara Bergmann on Gender Biases.-6: Thorstein veblen on Inequality -- 7: Amartya Sen on Financial Capabilities -- 8: Gunnar Myrdal on...

1. Introduction -- 2. Neoclassical Economics and Capitalism -- 3. Marxian Economics -- 4. John Maynard Keynes and Stabilization Measures -- 5. Neoclassical Economics, Marx and Keynes, and the Global Financial Crisis -- 6. Capitalism Versus Socialism: A Few Country Studies -- 7. Survival of the...

1. Introduction: Critically Returning to Rudolf Hilferding -- 2. Rethinking Hilferding’s Finance Capital -- 3. From Luxemburg to Sweezy. Notes on the Intellectual Influence of Hilferding’s Finance Capital -- 4. Contradictions in Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, Banking and Crisis...

Chapter 1. Stages of Capitalism: From Start to Finish -- Chapter 2. The Theory of a Purely Capitalist Society -- Chapter 3. Stage Theory -- Chapter 4. Historical Analysis as a Level of Political Economy -- Chapter 5. The Stage of Mercantilism -- Chapter 6. The Stage of Liberalism -- Chapter 7....

1 Introduction and major propositions -- Part I Foundations -- 2 Production and labor -- 3 Probabilistic framework -- 4 Labor content – properties and postulates -- Part II Results -- 5 Law of decreasing labor content -- 6 Wages and class divisions -- 7 Limits to growth and accumulation --...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2. Capital -- Chapter 3. Credit -- Chapter 4. The Category of Capitalisation -- Chapter 5. Fictitious Capital -- Chapter 6. Speculative Capital -- Chapter 7. Private Banks -- Chapter 8. The Financial System and the State -- Chapter 9. Capital and the World...

This Palgrave Pivot uses Marxian economic categories and analysis to explore the deeper causes of the 2008 global economic crisis, what the crisis represents for capitalism, and why fiscal and monetary policies pursued in its wake have failed to rejuvenate economies. With an innovative...

1. Introduction -- 2. the Place of Money in Marx’s Theory of Capital -- 3. Speculative Capital and the Dematerialisation of Money -- 4. Crypto-Currencies: From the Fetishism of Gold to Hayek Gold -- 5. Financialisation and the Contradictory Unity Between the Real and Financial Dimensions of...

Chapter 1 The Theoretical and Institutional Evolution of Marxist Political Economy on Distribution -- Chapter 2 Theoretical Review on Income Distribution in Western Economics -- Chapter 3 Primary Distribution and Macro Distribution Patterns of National Income -- Chapter 4 Redistribution of...