"This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept. It aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation, focusing specifically on the tension between Marx's theoretical system of the Critique of Political Economy and the theories of capitalist expansion and domination....

Introduction -- Capitalism and its origins: the theoretical context -- Marx's notion of capitalism: a synoptic account -- Marx's two approaches to the genesis of capitalism : the "productive forces - relations of production dialectic' -- Early forms of capitalism and wage labour : Lenin's...

pt. 1. The long tradition of finance as a counter-productive activity in heterodox thinking : a Marxian appraisal -- pt. 2. Financial innovation, money, and capitalist exploitation : a short detour in the history of economic ideas -- pt. 3. Rethinking finance : a Marxian analytical framework --...