The First World Economic Crisis : Marx's ' books of crisis' of 1857-58

Kratke, Michael (2008) The First World Economic Crisis : Marx's ' books of crisis' of 1857-58. In: Karl Marx' s Grundrisse : Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 years later. Routledge, Oxford, pp. 162-175. ISBN 978-0415437493

Abstract

An important example of an empirical and theoretical study of the events of the first world economic crisis, the crisis of 1857-58, is presented: the unfinished ' books of crisis', written by Karl Marx in the same period as he was working on the first draft of 'Capital" (Grundrisse).