Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy /

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Author / Creator:	Hollander, Samuel.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
Description:	xiv, 408 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics Historical perspectives on modern economics.
Subject:	Engels, Friedrich, -- 1820-1895 -- Contributions in economics. Engels, Friedrich, -- 1820-1895. Marxian economics. Historical materialism. Historical materialism. Marxian economics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8399818

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ISBN:	9780521761635 0521761638
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book rejects the commonly-encountered perception of Engels as perpetuator of a "tragic deception" of Marx, and the equally persistent body of opinion treating him as His Master's Voice. Engels's claim to recognition is reinforced by an exceptional contribution in the 1840s to the very foundations of the Marxian enterprise, a contribution entailing not only the "vision" but some of the building blocks in the working out of that vision. Subsequently, he proved himself to be a sophisticated interpreter of the doctrine of Historical Materialism and an important contributor in his own right"--

Table of Contents:

Preface
Prolegomena
A. Some Ground Clearing
B. The Essays
1. Engels's Early Contribution
A. Introduction
B. Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy 1: On the Classical Literature
C. Outlines of a Critique II: Value and Distribution
D. Outlines of a Critique III: On Malthus, Science, and Macroeconomic Instability
E. The Holy Family: Some Brief Observations
F. The Condition of the Working Class in England I: The Industrialization Process
G. The Condition of the Working Class in England II: Earnings, Employment, and Population Growth
H. The Condition of the Working Class in England Ill: The Cyclical Dimension, and the Industrial Reserve Army
I. The Condition of the Working Class in England IV: Longer-Term Forecasts
J. The Principles of Communism and the Communist Manifesto
K. On Marx's Reception of the Outlines
L. A Note on Sources
M. Summary and Conclusion
2. The Surplus-Value Doctrine, Rodbertus's Charge of Plagiarism, and the Transformation
A. Introduction
B. Marxian Surplus Value: Engels on Matters of Timing
c. Rodbertus on Surplus Value
D. Engels on Rodbertus's Surplus-Value Doctrine
E. Engels on Marx's Innovation
F. The Transformation and the "Prize Essay Competition"
G. The Historical Transformation: A Theory of Economic History
H. Concluding Remarks
3. Economic Organization and the Price Mechanism
A. Introduction
B. The Competitive Price Mechanism 1: General Principles
C. The Competitive Price Mechanism II: Applications
D. The Competitive Price Mechanism III: Objections to Rodbertus
E. Communist Organization
F. The Perspective on Robert Owen
G. Communist Distribution
H. From Capitalism to Communism: An Evolutionary Process
I. The Rodbertus Proposals Misunderstood
J. Historiographical Objections to Rodbertus's "Utopia"
K. Concluding Remarks
4. "Revisionism" I. Constitutional Reform versus Revolution
A. Introduction
B. Evidence from the 1840s: Chartism and Constitutional Reform
c. Evidence from the 1850s: Universal Suffrage in France versus England
D. Marx's Revisionism in the 1860s and Thereafter
E. Engels's Revisionism, 1865-1894
F. The 1895 Introduction to The Class Struggles in France
G. Limits to Constitutional Revisionism
H. Concluding Remarks
5. "Revisionism" II. Social Reform
A. Introduction
B. Principles of Reform: Early Statements
C. On Marx's Revisionism: The 1860s and 1870s
D. The Housing Question: 1872-1873
E. Engels's Revisionism: 1872-1895
F. Further Extensions: Unskilled Labor and the "New Unionism"
G. A Grand Dilemma
H. The Resolution: Economic Stagnation and Immigration
I. Concluding Remarks
6. The Engels-Marx Relation
A. Introduction
B. His Master's Voice?
C. Engels's Contribution to Capital: Form or Substance?
D. "More Royalist than the King"
E. Engels's Self-Evaluation
F. Engels as Editor
7. A Methodological Overview314
A. Introduction
B. The Unduly Neglected Price-Theoretical Component
C. Engels's Applied Economics: The "Marxian Component"
D. Political Economy in the Historical Context
E. On the Late Formulation of Historical Materialism
F. On the Behavioral Assumptions
G. A Final Summation
Epilogue: The Immediate Legacy
A. Engels and Bernstein
B. Engels and Kautsky
Appendix A: Prolegomena: A Brief Chronology
Appendix B: Chapter 5
I. Engels and International Trade Policy
II. Two Contemporary Estimates of the Real-Wage Trend
Further Opinion Regarding the Late-Nineteenth-Century British Economy
Appendix C: Chapter 7
Marx and Engels on an Alternative Russian Option
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index

Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy /

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