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...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Friedrich Engels at 200 Revisiting his maiden paper “Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy” (1844) -- Chapter 3: The Internal Contradiction of Land Rent and Young Engels’ Critical Theory of Private Ownership -- Chapter 4: Engels, Werner Sombart,...

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...

This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It explores the road from the dominance of Keynesian ideas to those of New Classical Macroeconomics (NCM) toward...

Introduction -- Part I: Guggenheim Prize Lecture -- The Myth of Money as a Veil -- Part II: Financial History -- British Investment Trusts 1868 to 1928: Portfolio Diversification and the Beginnings of Institutional Investment -- Early Reflections on the Democratization of Organized Markets and...

Chapter 1. Looking for dynamic economics: Tinbergen’s early breakthrough -- Chapter 2. Relaxation oscillations in the early development of econometrics: a road not taken -- Chapter 3. Frisch’s macro-dynamics: inner stability and external impulses -- Chapter 4. Kalecki’s macro-dynamics:...

1: Capitalism creates progress.-2:The dark side of capitalism and its myths.-3:Capitalistic accumulation.-4:Plundering the world.-5: The welfare state and its crisis.-6: broken promises -- 7: The new challenges.-8: Labour-based development -- 9: Conclusions: Beyond the borders.

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....