State interventions in markets assume varieties of forms in different economic systems. To
capture this variety, we consider state capitalism as a multidimensional concept, first …

The classical-marxian conception of capitalist monopoly, based on restrictions to capital
mobility arising from production conductions and property rights rather than oligopolistic …

Abstract According to Adam Smith, markets and trade are, in principle, good things—
provided there is competition and a regulatory framework that prevents ruthless selfishness …

The book examines how the outgrowth of the financial industry has contributed to the recent
tendencies towards inequality and stagnation. It proposes a monetary interpretation of these …

Zusammenfassung Aufgrund von Kindersklaverei auf Kakaoplantagen, Todesfällen in
Textilfabriken oder geschlechterspezifischer Gewalt in Goldminen werden international …

The innovative contributions of the Italian Marginalists-Pareto, Pantaleoni, De Viti de Marco
and Barone, to economic theory have previously been overlooked. This is the first book to …

This paper explores the Newtonian roots of Adam Smith's thinking in the structural dynamics
of the production system and of social organization at large. Newton's Principia Mathematica …

Absolute rent, in Marx's view, has an upper limit represented by the difference between the
value and the price of production of agricultural commodities. The relevance of this limit was …

This article is the first to reconstruct the intellectual history of Milton Friedman's criticism of
business and its social responsibilities. Using original archival research and printed …

Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this
volume explore the characteristic features of the Classical economists' approach to …