The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...

World Review of Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2023), pp. 4-33 (30 pages) Whether Marx’s economics and Marxist political economy can be formalized using mathematics is a controversial and ...

Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in his mid-20s, he actually said he opposed any attempt to establish a communist system. In October ...

As the world economy spirals down into its deepest crisis since the great depression, the writings of Karl Marx have made a return to the top seller lists in bookstores. In his native Germany, the ...

Das Kapital, by Karl Marx, caused the greatest economic controversy of the nineteenth century. Of the twentieth, Henry Ford has performed the most spectacular individual industrial feat. Marx was at ...

There's more criticism over Thomas Piketty's best-selling "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," this time from Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, two well-known economics professors. Their claim? Mr.