Karl Marx #6- Was Marx an Accomplished Economist?
Join Sparks oh History with
Professor Jonathan Sperber
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright Publishing, 2013)
2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
'absorbing, meticulously researched biography' – New York Times
Curator Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri
Member, German Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Selected works
• Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany
• Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850
• The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
#6 Was Marx An Accomplished Economist?
• Marx deeply researched economics
• Economics in 19th century was called “Political Economy”
• Not as we view it today
• Marx was a philosopher
• Economists at that time came from varied backgrounds
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