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Rejects the perception of Engels as perpetuator of a 'tragic deception' of Marx, and the body of opinion treating him as 'his master's voice'.
List of contents
Prolegomena; 1. Engels' early contribution; 2. The surplus-value doctrine, Rodbertus' charge of plagiarism, and the transformation; 3. Economic organization, income distribution, and the price mechanism; 4. Revisionism I: constitutional reform versus revolution; 5. Revisionism II: social reform; 6. The Engels-Marx relationship; 7. A methodological overview; Epilogue: the immediate legacy.
About the author
Samuel Hollander is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he served on the faculty from 1963 to 1998, and is currently affiliated with the Department of Economics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. An Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor Hollander holds an honorary Doctorate of Law from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, and was a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France from 1999 to 2000. A leading historian of economic thought, his major books have been devoted to studies of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Robert Malthus, Jean-Baptiste Say and Karl Marx.
Summary
This book perceives Engels' early contribution to Marxian economic analysis. It justifies his defence of Marx against charges of plagiarism; rationalizes his objection that the 'utopian' socialists ignored the price mechanism; and analyzes his so-called revisionism in the light of constitutional and welfare reform.
