Volume 12, Number 11 · June 5, 1969
Marxism: For and Against
By Robert L. Heilbroner
Marxist Economic Theory
by Ernest Mandel
Monthly Review Press, 797, (2 vols) pp., $15.00
I suppose it should not be surprising that Marxian economic theory is little studied in the United States; I understand that the works of Paul Samuelson are largely ignored in the Soviet Union. Yet there is a reason for the lack of attention paid to Marxian economics in our universities, beyond their heretical nature. It is because so much of the work of Marx is either impossibly difficult to understand or—to mention the unmentionable—terribly boring to study.
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