Translator Brian Pearce Language French Page count 224 (2015 Verso edition) | Country France Subject Karl Marx | |
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Original title La formation de la pensée économique de Karl Marx: de 1843 à la rédaction du "Capital" Published 1967 (in French)
1971 (in English) Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) Similar Ernest Mandel books, Other books | ||
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx: 1843 to Capital (French: La formation de la pensée économique de Karl Marx: de 1843 à la rédaction du "Capital") is a 1967 book by Ernest Mandel, in which Mandel discusses the economic theories of Karl Marx. It appeared in English translation in 1971.
Contents
Summary
Mandel analyses the development of Marx's economic thought up to and including the Grundrisse.
Scholarly reception
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx received a positive review in Telos from James E. Hansen when the work was published in English in 1971. Hansen welcomed Mandel's book as important contribution to scholarship on Marx. Political scientist David McLellan called Mandel's work "excellent" in the 1995 edition of his Karl Marx: His Life and Thought. McLellan recommended the book, together with Mandel's An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, as the best introduction to Marx's economics.