Western and Eastern Rolls - History of Marxist Economic Thought

Author: Zhu Kui
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: A History of Marxist Economic Thought is the research outcome of the Key Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (02AJL007), a multi-volume academic monograph. The entire work is divided into five volumes, each discussing the history of economic thought of classical Marxist writers, the history of Chinese Marxist economic thought, the history of Soviet and Russian Marxist economic thought, the history of Western and European Marxist economic thought, and the history of Japanese Marxist economic thought. Guided by dialectical materialism and employing comparative research as its fundamental method, the author focuses on the core connotations of Marxist economic disciplines, striving to highlight the research characteristics of timeliness and openness. It explores the background and context of the evolution of various representative schools of Marxist economic thought worldwide, analyzing and objectively evaluating them. The work emphasizes the continuity and development of the theoretical thoughts of classical Marxist writers and various schools, outlining the basic framework and trends of the history of Marxist economic thought. This volume specifically focuses on the history of Marxist economic thought in Europe and America (primarily Western Europe and North America), covering topics such as the origins and development of Marxist economic thought in Europe and America, Marxist economic thought and the Great Depression, the debate on socialist economic calculation, responses to Keynesianism, the transformation problem, stagflation and theories of capitalist development stages, underdeveloped political economy, analytical Marxism, new models of socialism, critiques of neoliberal economics, and explanations of new phenomena in capitalism.