This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism, and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the...

Introduction -- Foundation -- Empire -- Second foundation -- Tricontinental -- Renewal And dispersal -- Beyond Marxism? -- Unexplored territories -- Hidden abode -- Marxism in an age of catastrophe -- Afterword.

Introduction: Mediating Marxism -- Part I Theoretical Readings -- Marx's Notes on Method: A "Reading" of the "1857 Introduction" -- Re-thinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor -- The "Political" and the "Economic" in Marx's Theory of Classes -- The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without...