The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Micha? Kalecki

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Tadeusz Kowalik and the Political Economy of the 20th Century

   • Riccardo Bellofiore, Ewa Karwowski, Jan Toporowski

   Pages 1-8

3. Michał Kalecki and Rosa Luxemburg on Marx’s Schemes of Reproduction: Two Incisive Interpreters of Capitalism

   • G. C. Harcourt, Peter Kriesler

   Pages 9-18

4. The Realisation Problem: A Reappraisal of the Kalecki and Luxemburg Discussion on the Schemes of Reproduction

   • Noemi Levy-Orlik

   Pages 19-35

5. Luxemburg as an Economist: The Unique Challenge to Marx among Marxists

   • Gabriele Pastrello

   Pages 36-57

6. Marxist Political Economy without Hegel: Contrasting Marx and Luxemburg with Plekhanov and Lenin

   • Paul Zarembka

   Pages 58-77

7. Luxemburg and Kalecki: The Actuality of Tadeusz Kowalik’s Reading of the Accumulation of Capital

   • Riccardo Bellofiore

   Pages 78-103

8. Polish Marxian Political Economy and US Monopoly Capital Theory: The Influence of Luxemburg, Kalecki and Lange on Baran and Sweezy and Monthly Review

   • John Bellamy Foster

   Pages 104-121

9. When Science Meets Revolution: The Influence of Rosa Luxemburg on Oskar Lange’s Early Project (1931–1945)

   • Roberto Lampa

   Pages 122-140

10. Lange and Keynes

    • Jan Toporowski

    Pages 141-153

11. The Walrasian Socialism of Oskar Lange

    • Meghnad Desai

    Pages 154-164

12. Between Memory and Historical Enquiry: Kalecki and the Warsaw Centre of Research on Underdeveloped Economies in 1962–1968

    • Marcin Kula

    Pages 165-178

13. The Price Mechanism and the Distribution of Income in Kalecki’s Economics and Post-Kaleckian Economics

    • Jo Michell

    Pages 179-204

14. Financial Fragility and the Kalecki Principle under Expanded Reproduction

    • Andrew B. Trigg

    Pages 205-214

15. Back Matter

    Pages 215-252

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Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Michal Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that guided the thinking of their student Tadeusz Kowalik. These contributions are re-examined by renowned economists, highlighting the common themes in their political economy and the neglected aspects of their work.

• capital theory
• economics
• John Maynard Keynes
• Keynes
• Marx
• Polis
• political economy
• production

• University of Bergamo, Italy

  Riccardo Bellofiore

• School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK

  Ewa Karwowski, Jan Toporowski

Ewa Karwowski, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London UK Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo Italy Jan Toporowski, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London UK G.C. Harcourt, The University of New South Wales Australia Peter Kriesler, The University of New South Wales Australia Noemi Levy-Orlik, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Mexico Gabriele Pastrello, University of Modena Italy Paul Zarembka, University at Buffalo USA John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon USA Roberto Lampa, University of Salento Italy Meghnad Desai, Former Lecturer at the London School of Economics UK Marcin Kula, Warsaw University, Poland Jo Michell, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London UK Andrew Trigg, The Open University UK.

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