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Rosa Luxemburg

Theory of Accumulation and Imperialism

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Tadeusz Kowalik
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought (PHET)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Tadeusz Kowalik
      Pages 1-6

  4. Imperialism and the Theory of Accumulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. The Historic Conditions of Capital Accumulation

      • Tadeusz Kowalik
      Pages 103-111

    3. Militarism and Economic Growth

      • Tadeusz Kowalik
      Pages 112-118

    4. Imperialism and the Process of Capitalist Decline

      • Tadeusz Kowalik
      Pages 119-130

    5. Rudolf Hilferding’s Theory of Finance Capital

      • Tadeusz Kowalik
      Pages 131-142

    6. Lenin on Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital

      • Tadeusz Kowalik
      Pages 143-158

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 159-189
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About this book

The purpose of this translated volume Tadeusz Kowalik's book is to examine Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to economic theory. The essential subject-matter is the dependence of capital accumulation on effective demand, the dependence of economic growth on specific capitalist barriers to growth.

Reviews

“It provides a key to the analysis of her work and its importance to the political economy of the first half of the twentieth century. It is also a reading of great interest to the history of economic thought in a more general sense … . The book is concise and analytically dense, but also very readable, with chapters and parts well articulated with each other.” (Alexandre Mendes Cunha, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 23 (4), 2016)

About the author

Tadeusz Kowalik (1926-2012) studied law and economics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. This book arises from the research that he did for his post-doctoral thesis, supervised by Oskar Lange (1904-1965). Tadeusz Kowalik worked with Micha? Kalecki and was active in dissident circles. He was expelled from Poland's ruling party in 1968, and then emerged in 1980 as an adviser to the Solidarity trade union, which he assisted through the discussions in 1989 that prepared the transition to democracy in Poland. A prolific writer, he became Poland's pre-eminent political economist and a fierce critic of the new capitalism that was installed in Poland's transition.
 
Jan Toporowski is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
 
Hanna Szymborska is a  researcher at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

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