[Marxism] "Marxist Economic Theory" - Ernest Mandel

[Einde O'Callaghan]

Jeff Richards schrieb:
> For more on Mandel go to : 'Late Capitalism' and then 'Long Waves of
> Capitalist Development' (edited version of the Alfred Marshall Lectures that
> Mandel gave at Cambridge University) both were published by Verso in London.
> For the most up to date neo- Marxist economic work go to Robert Brenner "The
> Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World economy" (must read) and the
> Economics of Global Turbulenece.
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> Late capitalism / Capitalismo tardio
>   El Capital: 100 años de contraversias en torno a la obra de K Marx /
> Introductions to Penguin Books edition of  Capital edited between 1978-1981
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> 
> Erik Carlos Toren <ectoren at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>   Camaradas:
> 
> This probably a often repeated question, but stated differently. 
> Nevertheless, recently I picked up again "Marxist Economic Theory" by Ernest
> 
> Mandel as a way to refresh my basic understanding of Marxist 
> economic/political theory. Would y'all recommend this book as a good 
> introductory book or is there another better one? Also, what's another good 
> author and book to accompany Mandel's book?
> 
As I understand it Brenner's economic theory is incompatible with that 
advanced by Marx.

One book I would recommend for a fairly simple introduction to Marxist 
economics is Chris Harman's "Economics of the Madhouse" - the first 
chapters are a restatement of the basic tenets of Marx's critique of 
capitalism. You may care to ignore his later chapters which are about 
contemporary capitalism and therefore more controversial.

He also wrote a book called "Expalining the crisis" - the first two 
chapters are fairly non-controversial since they look at the basics of 
Marxist economic theory and take the story down to the 1930s. The latter 
chapters are again more controversial.

another book I founsd interesting was Geoffrey Kay's "Economic theory of 
teh working class". then there are the classics Huberman's "Man's 
Worldly Goods" or Pierre Jalee's "How capitalism works" (IIRC). Whatever 
weaknesses they have are outweighed by their accessibility. There was 
also a cartoon book published in Britain by Readers and Writers called 
"Capital for Beginners" - it was quite good and also amusing in places.

Einde O'Callaghan