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Henryk Grossman’s substantial essays highlight vital but still neglected aspects of Marx’s economic theory
List of contents
Acknowledgements iii
Introduction by Rick Kuhn 1
Simonde de Sismondi and his economic theories 25
Fifty years of struggle over Marxism 1883–1932 71
Marx, classical political economy and the problem of dynamics 111
The evolutionist revolt against classical economics 163
W. Playfair, the earliest theorist of capitalist development 197
References 215
Index 239
About the author
Henryk Grossman (1881–1950) was the most important Marxist economist of the Twentith Century. He was a founding leader of the Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia and later a member of the Polish Communist Workers Party. After holding posts as a senior public servant and professor in Poland, he was a member of the Institute for Social Research in Germany and, following the Nazi takeover, in exile.
Dr Rick Kuhn is an honorary associate professor in Sociology at the Australian National University and long term socialist activist, who has written extensively on Marxist theory as well as Australian politics and political economy. His Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism won the 2007 Deutscher Prize.
Summary
Henryk Grossman’s substantial essays highlight vital but still neglected aspects of Marx’s economic theory
Foreword
•Promotion and publicity to coincide with author's public appearances, likely to include numerous Marxist conferences. Including: Historical Materialism London, Historical Materialism Australia, and Marxism 2017
•Features in Jacobin, Historical Materialism, International Socialist Review, and Socialistworker.org
•Targeted marketing to relevant academic disciplines
•Library mailing
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“Grossman was an invaluable contributor to the development of Marxist political economy since Marx’s death in 1883. An activist in the Polish Social Democrat party and later in the Communist party in Germany, Grossman, in my view, made major contributions in explaining and developing Marx’s theory of value and crises under capitalism.”
—Michael Roberts, author of The Long Depression
“Henryk Grossman (1881-1950) was one of the most significant Marxist theoreticians in the fields of political economy and the history of scientific thought in the first half of the twentieth century. . .the publication of this collection of five long essays or ‘monographs’, mostly devoted to the history and development of economic theory, is very welcome."
—Pete Green, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
