This collection includes texts by Henryk Grossman that are primarily concerned with economic theory: monographs, articles, essays, letters and manuscript material. Many have never been published in English before, some in any language. The first in four volumes of Grossman’s works, it provides the basis for a deeper understanding of Grossman’s contributions to Marxist economic theory and critique of bourgeois economics. Rick Kuhn’s introduction explains the contexts in which the texts were written and establishes their contemporary relevance.
Henryk Grossman (1881–1950) was the preeminent Marxist economist of the twentieth century. He was the founding theoretician and secretary of the Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia, a Professor at the Free University of Warsaw later, as a member of the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Frankfurt, and then at the University of Leipzig.
Rick Kuhn is a member of Socialist Alternative in Australia, he wrote the Deutscher Prize winning biography
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism (University of Illinois, 2008) and is an honorary associate professor at the Australian National University.
Acknowledgements IntroductionRick Kuhn 1
The Fortieth Anniversary of Capital 2
The Theory of Economic Crisis 3
The Economic System of Karl Marx (on the Fortieth Anniversary of His Death) 4
Simonde de Sismondi and His Economic Theories (a New Interpretation of His Thought) 5
A New Theory of Imperialism and the Social Revolution 6
Review of Othmar Spann, The Principal Theories of Economics 7
Review of Maurice Bourguin, Socialist Systems and Economic Evolution 8
The Change in the Original Plan for Marx’s Capital and Its Causes 9
Notes for ‘Response to Criticisms of the Principle Work’ 10
Letters to Frieda and Paul Mattick 11
Gold Production in the Reproduction Schema of Marx and Rosa Luxemburg 12
The Value-Price Transformation in Marx and the Problem of Crisis 13
Fifty Years of Struggle over Marxism 1883–1932 14
Letters to Leo Löwenthal 15
Letters to Max Horkheimer 16
Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de (1773–1842) 17
Review of Élie Halévy, Sismondi 18
Review of Robert Bordaz, Marx’s Law of Capitals in Light of Contemporary Events 19
Contributions to a Seminar Series on Monopoly Capitalism 20
Review of G.N. Clark, Science and Social Welfare in the Age of Newton, and George Sarton, The History of Science and the New Humanism 21
Review of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Civil War in the United States 22
Review of F. Grandeau, The Theory of Crises 23
Review of Cleona Lewis, America’s Stake in International Investments 24
Review of Jürgen Kuczynski, Hunger and Work 25
Review of L.P. Ayres, Turning Points in Business Cycles 26
Marx, Classical Political Economy and the Problem of Dynamics 27
Review of Josef A. Schumpeter, Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process 28
Review of Solomon Fabricant, The Output of Manufacturing Industries 1899–1937 29
Review of Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Sciences 30
The Evolutionist Revolt against Classical Economics 31
W. Playfair, the Earliest Theorist of Capitalist Development 32
Letters to Bill Blake and Christina Stead 33
Letters to Walter Braeuer ReferencesIndex
All interested in Marxist economics and the history of Marxism, from the curious but ignorant to specialists.