My favorite books on Marxist economics: 1. Paul Sweezy, The Theory of Capitalist Development -- a wonderfully lucid exposition of Marx's views.
2. Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capitalism. Still the best account of the exploitation of labor in capitalism. 3. Ernest Mandel, Marxian Economic Theory, 2 vols. Rather orthodox but fair and clear, makes serious efforts to fill in gaps in practical sort of way. 4. Howard & King, The Political Economy of Marx. A tough-minded, very critical "neo-Ricardan" account that states (in my view) what is intelligible and defensible in Marx's theory of political economy considered from a somewhat formal point of view. NB, you do NOT need maths to read the book. 5. Robert Brenner, The Brenner Debate: A good introduction to the first Brenner debate, and discussions about various Marxist theories of the rise of capitalism; see also The Boom and the Bubble: the US in the World Economy; the basic text in the _second_ Brenner debater, and the most complete and successful attempt to articulate a credible Marxist theory of crisis. jks --- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find Harrison's MARXIAN ECONOMICS FOR SOCIALISTS > (Pluto) to be very good in terms of a clear > presentation. By not hiding political implications, > Harrison is in many ways less ideological than those > who don't deal with those issues. > > Charlie Andrews' FROM CAPITALISM TO EQUALITY is also > very good. I think it can be found at > www.laborrepublic.org but I couldn't open that > website today. > > as for mainstream economics, the Goodwin, Nelson, > Ackerman, and Weisskopf book MICROECONOMICS IN > CONTEXT (prentice-hall, preliminary edition). > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Fri 10/31/2003 8:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: > Subject: [PEN-L] Query > > > > Can anybody suggest a non-ideological, as well as > an ideoligcally Marxist primary economics text for > me? > > Benjamin > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/
