[lbo-talk] self-education in economics

[Jon Johanning]

I'm another amateur student of Marxist theory -- not any kind of expert 
-- but I just got a book from the library that looks very helpful: 
Marxian Economics, ed. John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman 
(published by Norton). It's a collection of articles from the New 
Palgrave economics dictionary, written by the likes of Ernest Mandel, 
Anwar Shaikh, Paul Sweezy, Tom Bottomore, etc.).

Another older thing I have found useful is David Harvey: The Limits to 
Capital (U. of Chicago Press, 1982). Not easy reading, but it's hard to 
find thorough Marxist writings that are.

And of course a good Marx anthology is also useful, such as David 
McLellan's Karl Marx: Selected Writings (Oxford U. Press, 2nd ed. 2000).

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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