Contents

Introduction: The Early Reception of Marx’s Economic Works 1

Why Does Marx Matter? 39 Richard B. Day

1 Karl Marx’s Point of View in his Political-Economic Critique: A Review of Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1872) 100

Illarion Ignat’evich Kaufman

2 The History of a Book [On the Fortieth Anniversary of the Publication of Capital, Vol.

Otto Bauer

3 ‘The Poverty of Philosophy' and‘Capital’ (1886) 129

Karl Kautsky

4 A Contribution to the Critique of Karl Marx’s Economic System (1894) 162

Werner Sombart

5 Theories of Surplus Value (1905) 212

Heinrich Cunow

6 Marx’s Critique of Ricardo (1906) 246

Gustav Eckstein

7 The Prehistory of Marxian Economics (1911-12) 273

Rudolf Hilferding

8 Theories of Surplus Value (1910) 328

Otto Bauer

9 A Contribution to the Understanding of Marx’s Research Method (1910) 340

Heinrich Cunow

10 On the History of the Theory of Value (1903) 353

Rudolf Hilferding

11 Karl Marx’s Formulation of the Problem of Theoretical Economics (1905) 362

Rudolf Hilferding

12 Backto Adam Smith! (1900) 378

Rosa Luxemburg

13 Werner Sombart’s Modern Capitalism (1903) 390

Rudolf Hilferding

14 The Psychological Tendency in Recent Political Economy (1892) 405

Conrad Schmidt

15 The Austrian School (1926) 429

Isaak Il’ich Rubin

16 Marx’s Teaching on Production and Consumption (1930) 448

Isaak Il’ich Rubin

17 Fundamental Features of Marx’s Theory of Value and How it Differs from Ricardo’s Theory (1924) 536

Isaak Il’ich Rubin

18 Towards a History of the Text of the First Chapter of Marx’s Capital (1929) 583

Isaak Il’ich Rubin

19 Essays on Marx’s Theory of Money (1926-8) 619

Isaak Il’ich Rubin

20 The Dialectical Development of Categories in Marx’s Economic System (1929) 728

Isaak Il’ich Rubin

Appendix: Pages from the Life and Creative Work of Economist

I.I. Rubin (1992) 819

Lyudmila L. Vasina and Yakov G. Rokityansky

References 837

Index 854