Rudolf Hilferding

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.

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

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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 and articles 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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Critically Returning to Rudolf Hilferding.- 2. Rethinking Hilferding's Finance Capital.- 3. From Luxemburg to Sweezy. Notes on the Intellectual Influence of Hilferding's Finance Capital.- 4. Contradictions in Hilferding's Finance Capital: Money, Banking and Crisis Tendencies.- Chapter 5: Finance Capital, Financialisation and the Periodisation of Capitalist Development.- 6. A New Finance Capital? Theorizing Corporate Governance and Financial Power.- 7. Finance Capital and Contemporary Financialisation.- 8. Finance Capital and Militarism as Pillars of Contemporary Capitalism.- 9. Hilferding and the Large-scale Enterprise.- 10. Hilferding and Kalecki.- 11. A Socialist Third Way? Rudolf Hilferding's Evolutionary Socialism as Syncopated Note to Early Neoliberalism.- 12. Hilferding as an Eclectic: A History of Economic Thought Perspective on Finance Capital (1910).- 13. Rudolf Hilferding on the Economic Categories of 'Joint-Stock Company/Share Capital': A Refinement ofthe Critique of Political Economy?.- 14. Hilferding's Impressive Failure. A Reading of His Last Major Text.