New Book

Responses to Marx’s Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin

25th Mar 2019

Responses to Marx’s Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin

Edited and translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel F. Gaido

• $50 / £43.99 • 9781608469994 • 877 Pages

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The essential collection of early documents—most translated for the first time—responding to Karl Marx’s Capital

Responses to Marx’s Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International. The documents, translated for the first time from German and Russian, range from the original reviews of the three volumes ofCapital and the three volumes ofTheories of Surplus Value to the debates between the Marxist economists and the bourgeois academic representatives of the theory of marginal utility and the German historical school.

The volume close with six essays by the prominent economist Isaak I. Rubin, including ‘Essays on Marx’s Theory of Money’ and ‘The Dialectical Development of Categories in Marx’s Economic System’.

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Richard B. Day, Ph. D. (1970), University of London, is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on Soviet economic and political history, including Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge University Press, 1973).

Daniel F. Gaido, Ph.D. (2000), University of Haifa (Israel), is a researcher at the National Research Council (Conicet), Argentina. He is the author ofThe Formative Period of American Capitalism (Routledge, 2006) and co-editor, together with Richard B. Day, ofWitnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record (Haymarket Books, 2011).

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