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Rudolf Hilferding

What Do We Still Have to Learn from His Legacy?

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Editors:
  1. Judith Dellheim

    1. Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Frieder Otto Wolf

    1. Institute for Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • Evaluates the influence of Hilferding on political economy and the physiognomy of left-wing politics in the 20th century
  • Assesses the validity of “Finance Capital” in understanding present-day capitalism
  • Directly compares opposing theoretical perceptions

Part of the book series: Luxemburg International Studies in Political Economy (LISPE)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: Critically Returning to Rudolf Hilferding

    • Judith Dellheim, Frieder Otto Wolf
    Pages 1-10

  3. Rethinking Hilferding’s Finance Capital

    • Michael R. Krätke
    Pages 11-45

  4. From Luxemburg to Sweezy: Notes on the Intellectual Influence of Hilferding’s Finance Capital

    • Nikos Stravelakis
    Pages 47-74

  5. Contradictions in Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, Banking and Crisis Tendencies

    • Patrick Bond
    Pages 75-102

  6. Finance Capital, Financialisation and the Periodisation of Capitalist Development

    • Andrew Kilmister
    Pages 103-127

  7. A New Finance Capital? Theorising Corporate Governance and Financial Power

    • Stephen Maher, Scott M. Aquanno
    Pages 129-154

  8. Finance Capital and Contemporary Financialisation

    • Radhika Desai
    Pages 155-183

  9. Finance Capital and Militarism as Pillars of Contemporary Capitalism

    • Claude Serfati
    Pages 185-217

  10. Hilferding and the Large-Scale Enterprise

    • John Grahl
    Pages 219-236

  11. Hilferding and Kalecki

    • Jan Toporowski
    Pages 237-247

  12. A Socialist Third Way? Rudolf Hilferding’s Evolutionary Socialism as Syncopated Note to Early Neoliberalism

    • J. Patrick Higgins
    Pages 249-277

  13. Hilferding as an Eclectic: A History of Economic Thought Perspective on Finance Capital

    • Jan Greitens
    Pages 279-299

  14. Rudolf Hilferding on the Economic Categories of ‘Joint-Stock Company/Share Capital’: A Refinement of the Critique of Political Economy?

    • Judith Dellheim
    Pages 301-332

  15. Hilferding’s Impressive Failure. A Reading of His Last Major Text

    • Frieder Otto Wolf
    Pages 333-345

  16. Correction to: Rudolf Hilferding on the Economic Categories of ‘Joint-Stock Company/Share Capital’: A Refinement of the Critique of Political Economy?

    • Judith Dellheim
    Pages C1-C1

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 347-352
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About this book

This edited volume is focused on Hilferding's major work, Finance Capital. In revisiting this influential book from a methodological point of view, both historical and intellectual, this book affirms Hilferding's place in the Marxist tradition. Hilferding's ideas are used to criticise incumbent approaches in economics and enrich existing discussions and debates about the nature of modern capitalism. In doing so, this book highlights the importance of Hilferding's work in analysing and understanding modern capitalism and corporate developments.


The volume has contributions from a range of expert scholars addressing various aspects of Hilferding’s arguments. It elaborates on Hilferding’s central idea on the political economy, as well as its historical context, and its relation to Marx. Contributors move on to criticize Hilferding’s views on the political economy and politics in general. This book is relevant to those interested in the political economy, the history of economic thought, and European politics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, Berlin, Germany

    Judith Dellheim

  • Institute for Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Frieder Otto Wolf

About the editors

Judith Dellheim is a senior research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany. She has worked in the foreign trade of the GDR. Since 1990, she has been working on economies of solidarity, on political parties and movements, and on economic policies. She has been a member of the Federal Board of the PDS in 1995–2003, a freelance scientific consultant from 2004–2010, and senior researcher at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2011. She is co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx.

Frieder Otto Wolf is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has been a lecturer in philosophy at this institution since 1973, and became Honorary Professor in 2007. He has served as a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and sits on the advisory board of several journals. He has published books andarticles on political philosophy, the politics of labor, the politics of sustainability, political epistemology, and metaphilosophy, including as co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx.

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