Newly published: Stephan Krueger Keynes & Marx Hamburg 2012: VSA Hardcover, 416 p., 26.80 EUR ISBN: 978-3-89965-531-5
The subtitle reads: Presentation and Critique of the "General Theory"; Review of Keynesian Economic Policy; Left-Keynesianism and Socialism. Contents and introduction: http://www.vsa-verlag.de/uploads/media/www.vsa-verlag.de-Krueger-Keynes-und-Marx.pdf Publisher's note (in a rough translation) "Some 80 years after the 'Black Friday' in 1929, which ushered in the first great crisis of capitalism, the global economy is still caught in the second Great Crisis which erupted in 2007. Once again there is a period of stagnation and depression which lasts longer than one industrial cycle. Hence the current situation is comparable with the 1930s. Against this background, Keynes has again become topical. His masterpiece, the "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", is the systematic theoretical expression of the then economic collapse. Within the Marxist reception of Keynes Paul Mattick's book "Marx and Keynes" (1969) is almost the only work on this complex problem. Stephan Krueger's book is a new systematic exposition and critique of Keynesian economics. Based on the fundamental categories of money, work and time the "General Theory" is judged from the standpoint of Marx's critique of political economy. Krueger's main interest is the demonstration of those points at which Keynes formulated - albeit in categories of societal surface - a correct view of the capitalist mode of production, its inherent contradictions and its patterns of movement and trends of development. Keynes is the only economist of bourgeois origin, whose theory can be integrated into a Marxist analysis of the capitalist mode of production and into a modern concept of socialism." +++ Special offer: I award 12 bottles of Moselle wine - vinified from grapes grown near Marx's birthplace - to any person who will successfully inspire a publisher to publish an English edition of Krueger's new book. This offer is strictly limited to the pen-list community. hk _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
