This is a pre-publication version of a full-length review of Kuhn, R. (2007) Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism. Urbana and U of Illinois. Please cite as Freeman, A. 2008. ‘The Discontents of Marxism’. Debatte, 16 (1), April 2008 pp. 122-131

The political philosophy of pluralism enjoyed great currency in Britain during the early decades of the 20th century, as an alternative to the extreme poles of individualism and collectivism. Positing the existence of multiple types of political allegiances in any society, pluralism questioned...

Mikhail Tugan‑Baranovsky was one of the most prolific Russian economists at the turn of the 19–20th centuries. His thought was largely influenced by Western ideas, like most of his fellow Russian economists. But Tugan‑Baranovsky’s theories in turn also influenced Western economic thought...

This is a prepublication version of ‘Money, Labor, and Logic: A critical comparison’, published in Critique of Political Economy. Please cite as Freeman, A. 2011. ‘Money, Labor, and Logic: A critical comparison’, Critique of Political Economy No. 1. 152-175. The article seeks to promote...

The Townshend–Keynes exchanges over decision making, weight of the argument (evidence), non numerical probabilities (Keynes’s term for Boole’s constituent probabilities, used in The Laws of Thought in 1854, that appears on page 163 of the A Treatise on Probability in chapter 15 on inexact...

The editors of the Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes made an unfortunate blunder when they assigned to Richard Braithwaite the task of writing an editorial foreword to Volume 8, A Treatise on Probability, of the Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Braithwaite never read the A...

Keynes made a final reassessment of his chapter 15, Section IV simultaneous, four equation IS-LM model in Section IV of chapter 21 of the General Theory that is duplicated in his 1937 Quarterly Journal of Economics article . In his 1937 reply, his summary of the two main reasons for his...

Economists who analyzed Keynes's Diagram on page 180 of the General Theory erred by (a) reading only the first one-half of page 181 and (b) by using the wrong equation of liquidity preference on page 168 from chapter 13 instead of the correct equation on page 199 of chapter 15. Keynes's clearly...

J. Viner, as well as all other economists who have written on Keynes's analysis of the rate of interest in the General Theory, erred in not taking into account Keynes's detailed, painstaking analysis on pp.180-182 of the General Theory, where Keynes clearly and carefully derived and identified...

Hicks's assessment of the value of Champernowne's 1936 contribution to the Review of Economic Studies about the General Theory, that “What is common between my paper and [Champernowne's] seems to be no more than what any intelligent person could have got from a careful reading of the General...