Prolegomena; 1. Engels' early contribution; 2. The surplus-value doctrine, Rodbertus' charge of plagiarism, and the transformation; 3. Economic organization, income distribution, and the price mechanism; 4. Revisionism I: constitutional reform versus revolution; 5. Revisionism II: social reform; 6. The Engels–Marx relationship; 7. A methodological overview; Epilogue: the immediate legacy.
Rejects the perception of Engels as perpetuator of a 'tragic deception' of Marx, and the body of opinion treating him as 'his master's voice'.
Samuel Hollander is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he served on the faculty from 1963 to 1998, and is currently affiliated with the Department of Economics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. An Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor Hollander holds an honorary Doctorate of Law from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, and was a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France from 1999 to 2000. A leading historian of economic thought, his major books have been devoted to studies of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Robert Malthus, Jean-Baptiste Say and Karl Marx.
'Based upon an extraordinarily close and careful reading of the
texts, Hollander presents a detailed, comprehensive, and
sophisticated assessment of key issues in the development of
Engels's (and Marx's) economic ideas - this is a major and
impressive contribution to scholarship in the field.' Greg Claeys,
Royal Holloway, University of London
'A valuable, incisive, and compelling account of Engels's
contribution to the economics of Marxism. At last, Hollander has
revealed the great debt which Marxian political economy owes to
Marx's right-hand man.' Tristram Hunt MP, Queen Mary, University of
London
'Hollander's critical dissection of Friedrich Engels's economic
thought is scholarly, provocative, and engaging. This book makes a
major contribution to our understanding of one of
nineteenth-century socialism's most important, and most neglected,
economists.' John King, La Trobe University
'Samuel Hollander is the leading authority on classical economics.
His erudite and incisive accounts of Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Mill,
Say, and Marx are definitive. In his new book, Friedrich Engels and
Marxian Political Economy, Hollander shows that Engels was more
than the junior partner of a famous man, the second author of The
German Ideology and The Communist Manifesto. Engels was an
important and influential thinker in his own right. Disentangling
Engels from Marx, exploring the intricacies of Engels on economic
theory, applied economics, history, legislation, and the State,
Hollander fills a major gap in the literature of ideas. The book is
a major contribution to the social sciences. It will be the
definitive analysis of an important author who is seldom read and
even less frequently understood.' D. A. Reisman, Nanyang
Technological University and University of Surrey
'This volume adds substantially to our understanding of the
distinctive contribution made by Engels to nineteenth-century
socialist political economy. Hollander's work makes clear Engels's
role in shaping Marxian political economy in the 1840s and
subsequently. Engels emerges in this work as a thinker whose
capacity for self-effacement and deference to Marx too-often
obscured the originality and importance of his contribution to
socialist thinking. Engels in Hollander's rendition proves a more
subtle and original theorist than he is often presented and
certainly not as a proponent of the crude determinism which some
have seen as his corruption of the Marxian legacy. Taken with his
earlier volume … The Economics of Karl Marx, Hollander's Friedrich
Engels and Marxian Political Economy represents a major addition to
the scholarly literature on these two titans of socialist thought.'
Noel Thompson, University of Wales, Swansea
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