This paper presents Isaak Rubin’s History of Economic Thought. After a brief description of his life and work, the paper discusses Karl Marx’s attempts to write a critical history of the political economy and, in connection with this, the paper analyses the meaning of Rubin’s History of...

This paper discusses the role of credit in the capitalist accumulation. It presents Hilferding’s analysis of the financing of corporations and of the role of stock exchange as an agent of the mobilization of capital. Theoretical and historical elements are deployed to support a conjecture...

This article presents the intellectual trajectory of Roman Rosdolsky, highlighting his contributions to the interpretation of Marx's works and to the historical studies.

Neo-Schumpeterian economics has elaborated a theory of the role of science and technology in capitalist dynamics. We argue that this approach may be improved if it takes Marx's theory of capital into account. This (collective) effort should also consider contributions from some classic authors...

This article discusses three basic problems: 1. the nature and use of concept of the market in the social sciences; 2. the centrality of the concept of internal market, as formulated by Marx and a certain Marxist tradition for explaining the genesis and the dynamics of capitalism; and 3. the...

This paper investigates the role of theory in the historiographic discourse. While there is a general agreement that historiography should be based on documents and that it should prohibit anachronisms, there is little consensus about the role of theory in the production of historiography. This...

This paper presents Notebook B113, one of Marx’s unpublished manuscripts, and suggests its importance for highlighting the monetary and financial issues which Marx was investigating after 1867. A combination of deciphering an index prepared by Marx and reading the 1868 editions of The...

Marx's Notebooks prepared in 1868 and 1869 (excerpts from The Economist and The Money Market Review) are an investigation on the crisis of 1866. Beyond a broad study of that crisis, they are an investigation of an emerging transformation of capitalism. They focus on leading industrial sectors...