Italian Abstract: L'articolo introduce il presente numero, che si concentra sulle interpretazioni marxiste della crisi. L'autore descrive e mette in relazione l'interpretazione di Claudio Napoleoni della teoria del valore del lavoro e del Monopoly Capital di Baran e Sweezy. L'articolo evidenzia...

The Supreme Court in Hartley v King Edwards VI College (2017) has confirmed that an employee who refuses to work in accordance with his contract forfeits his right to be paid for the duration of the breach. The decision extends to professional employees paid a periodic salary the principle...

This paper explores the various economic ideas in the early twentieth century that may have contributed to the formation of the Planning Commission of India in the 1950s. The paper reviews the debates on economic ideas in the early twentieth century around the world and connects these ideas and...

The paper provides an interpretation of Lenin’s earliest contributions (made in 1893–1899) to the study of economic development. In the 1890s, Lenin joined young Marxist intellectuals in their fight against the Narodnik economists, who represented the approach prevalent among the Russian...

Austrian economist Ludwig Mises’s central role in the socialist calculation debates has been consensually acknowledged since the early 1920s. Yet, only recently, Nemeth, O’Neill, Uebel, and others have drawn particular attention to Mises’s pertinent encounter with one of the most colorful...

"“Studying the Balance of the National Economy: An Introduction.” (1926), by Pavel Illich Popov,"is a translation from the Russian of “Vvedenie k izucheniiu balansa narodnogo khoziaistva,” published first in 1926 in "Balans narodnogo khoziaistva Soiuza SSR 1923-24 goda" [Balance of the...

This article provides a presentation about Chapter 1 of The Balance of the National Economy, 1923-24, edited by Pavel Illich Popov. The Balance was issued in June 1926 by the Central Statistical Administration (CSU or TsSU) of the USSR, which Popov had headed from July 1918 to January 1926. In...

According to Otto Neurath (1919), "Utopias [are to be] set alongside the constructions of engineers, and one might with full justice call them constructions of social engineers...Utopias were relegated to the history of economic theory, whereas they belong to the theory itself, just as the...

Has Marxism inadvertently contributed to the perpetuation of the capitalist mode of production? David Ellerman answers in the affirmative. In this paper I endeavor to demonstrate that Ellerman's position stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's critique of...

The most effective way to silence criticism is a justification on the very terms of the likely critique. When an action is rationally justified, how can reason deny its legitimacy? This paper concerns critical strategies that have been employed for addressing the resistance of rationality to...