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Some Developments in Marxian Theory Since Schumpeter

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Classical Political Economy

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According to Joan Robinson [1966, p. vi], in the early forties, the study of Marx had been considered “a quaint pastime” in England and “disreputable” in the United States. The appearance, in 1942, of her Essay on Marxian Economics and of Sweezy’s Theory of Capitalist Development was therefore not consonant with the academic consensus of the time. Among the more orthodox economists, Schumpeter was perhaps alone in publicly recognizing Marx as a great economist. Yet he too, though appreciating Marx’s contributions on business cycles and the reproduction schemes—cf. Schumpeter [1954, pp. 566n, 747–750, 965–966]—thought of the Marxian system as fundamentally flawed. Now, three decades after Schumpeter’s History of Economic Analysis, it has become neither quaint nor disreputable to study Marx, and an extensive literature has developed in Marxian studies. For many reasons, the rising interest in Marx, which Schumpeter [p. 885] had characterized as something of a fad, turned out to be more lasting and productive than the orthodoxy had thought possible.

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Callari, A. (1988). Some Developments in Marxian Theory Since Schumpeter. In: Thweatt, W.O. (eds) Classical Political Economy. Recent Economic Thought, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7782-3_7

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