Ruled by a demon -- Early writings -- The spectre of communism -- Political writings, 1848-1852 -- The whole economic muck -- Outlines of a critique of political economy -- An immense accumulation of research -- Volume one of Capital -- The tantalizing model of Paris -- The circulation of...

Reconsiders some of Nietzsche's writings on economics and the science of state. This work considers Nietzsche's historical and contemporary relevance, which has ranged from the highly serious (Schumpeter writings on creative destruction) to the pop cultural (the early works of Ayn Rand)

As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era...