Throughout all his life Karl Marx wrote angrily about capitalism. By use of a dialectic approach he was convinced that the working class had to unite and make a social revolution and thereby free them selves from exploitation. Marx himself was in many ways a dialectic person as we try to show in...

Right-wing critics of Keynes have often suggested that he was a socialist. His policy proposals were very often described as a slippery slope that would lead society into a totalitarian nightmare. Alternatively, from the left, Keynes was often seen as a reformist that intended to preserve the...

In order to stage a sustained encounter between literary theory and Marxian political economy, this paper initiates a dialogue between Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" on one hand, and Marx's Capital, on the other. I will theorize the two-fold transition from the language of labor...

This paper is an attempt to historicize Frank Plumpton Ramsey's Apostle talks delivered from 1923 to 1925 within the social and political context of the time. In his talks, Ramsey discusses socialism, psychoanalysis, and British women's movement. Ramsey's views on these three intellectual...

Enrico Barone's famous article on economic planning, "Il Ministro della Produzione nello Stato Collettivista" ("The Ministry of Production in the Collectivist State"), which showed the theoretical possibility of an economically efficient collectivist planned economy, was published in Giornale...

Ludwig Mises' "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" ("Die Wirtschaftsrechnung im sozialistischen Gemeinwesen," Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik 47.1 [1920]: 86-121) is known mostly in the English-speaking world through a translation by S. Alder (in F.A. Hayek, ed.,...

In 1851 the French Social economist Auguste Ott discussed the problem of gluts and commercial crises, together with the issue of distributive justice between workers in co-operative societies. He did so by means of a ‘simple reproduction scheme' sharing some features with modern intersectoral...

Today, Karl Marx is considered one of the preeminent social scientists of the last two centuries, and ranks among the most frequently assigned authors in university syllabi. However in Marx's time, many competing sociological traditions and socialist political movements espoused similar ideas...

Marx and Keynes approach the analysis of capitalist economies from distinct standpoints, by starting with the investigation of the production of value and surplus value, and of its realisation, respectively. This implies complementarity, evidenced in several points of contact. Both writers adopt...