Volume 11, Number 10 · December 5, 1968
Putting Marx to Work
By Robert L. Heilbroner
A Reappraisal of Marxian Economics
by Murray Wolfson
Pelican, 214 pp., $1.45 (paper)
Marx's Economic Predictions
by Fred M. Gottheil
Northwestern University Press, 216 pp., $7.50
Marx and Modern Economics
edited by David Horowitz
Monthly Review Press, 377 pp., $3.45 (paper)
'Is society a branch of physics?' asked the Abbé Mably, a minor nineteenth-century pamphleteer and philosophe. The absurd question serves very well to introduce a discussion of what modern economics is about and whether Karl Marx still has something to contribute to economic thought. For, essentially, economics has always answered Yes to the Abbé's query. That is, it has always proceeded on the belief that there were enough regularities in the social process to enable a skilled observer to discover 'laws' that described its movements, just as other laws described the motion of the planets in their orbits.
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