Finance Capital - On Late-Stage Capitalism, the Definitive Edition

About the author

Rudolf Hilferding (10 August 1877 - 11 February 1941) was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, socialist theorist, politician and the chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic, being almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of the twentieth century. He was also a physician. He was born in Vienna, where he received a doctorate having studied medicine. After becoming a leading journalist for the SPD, he participated in the November Revolution in Germany and was Finance Minister of Germany in 1923 and from 1928 to 1929. In 1933 he fled into exile, living in Zurich and then Paris, where he died in custody of the Gestapo in 1941. He was the author of many works, but Finance Capital is the one he is most famous for

Product details

• Authors: Hilferding Rudolph
• Assisted by: Fowkes Ben (Translation)
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.08.2026
• EAN: 9781804299142
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-914-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Weight: 600 g
• Subjects: Finance, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Colonialism & imperialism, Political Economy, Colonialism and imperialism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise & Capitalism, Finance and the finance industry