Introduction: making marxism relevant in the age of capitalist crisis -- Capitalist crisis and the relevance of marxism -- Learning from marxism¿s historical crisis -- Validating marxist analysis -- The development of the capitalist state -- Qualitative change in capitalism and its implications...

Introduction : flight as fight / Leo Lucassen, Lex Heerma van Voss -- Runaways and deserters in the early modern Portuguese Empire : the examples of São Tomé island, South Asia and Southern Portugal / Timothy Coates -- Escaping St. Thomas : Class relations and convict strategies in the Danish...

This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so. It explores central theoretical issues addressed by the classical economists Smith and Ricardo, as well as Marx,...