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1. Marx's Theory of Capitalism: How Does It Shape Our World Today? 2. Karl Marx: His Life and Legacy 3. What We Can Learn From Karl Marx's Critique of Capitalism 4. The Relevance of Karl Marx's Ideas in the 21st Century 5. Karl Marx and the Origins of Socialism 6. Was Karl Marx Right About Capitalism? 7. The Impact of Karl Marx's Economic Theories 8. The Role of Karl Marx in the Development of Modern Economics 9. Examining the Continuing Influence of Karl Marx's Ideas 10. How Karl Marx's Ideas Still Resonate Today
Karl Marx (1818-1883) remains one of the most highly cited authors in academic literature, 140 years after his death. But when did his writing become especially prominent? During his lifetime or after? And how has his prominence trended in recent decades? Philip Magness and Michael Makovi discuss the history and offer some measurements of how
TweetTimothy Taylor blogs on Phil Magness’s and Michael Makovi’s excellent Journal of Political Economy paper on Karl Marx and the Russian revolution. A slice: All of my professional life, it has been common for me to hear people argue that while they are a Marxist, they are not therefore a Stalinist, a Leninist, or a […]
Last year, the Journal of Political Economy published an article by Phillip W. Magness and Michael Makovi in which they argued that what made Karl Marx into a major name was the second Russian revolution of 1917, the one that installed the Bolsheviks and brought Communism to Russia. Their evidence was very strong and I […]
TweetKevin Corcoran offers further evidence (on top of an already substantial amount of it) in support of Phil Magness’s and Michael Makovi’s thesis about the fame of Karl Marx. People rightly worry about Donald Trump’s disregard for the law. But Joe Biden is no better – as reported here by the Editorial Board of the […]
TweetPhil Magness reminds us that Karl Marx was not only antisemitic; Marx saw Jews as enemies of civilization. Juliana Geran Pilon is inspired by Hayek’s understanding of the irrationality that birthed Naziism. A slice: The manuscript, titled “Spring 1933,” would lay forgotten in the Hoover Institution archives for over half a century, until serendipitously discovered […]
Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867) Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development (1911) Nikolai Kondratiev, The Major Economic Cycles (1925) Gunnar Myrdal, The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (1930) John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory (1936) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944) Paul…