Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas

Abstract

The collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues to attract strong interest. The papers range far and wide, including markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of capitalism, finance and profit, even money as art. Despite its breadth, the collection remains highly coherent. Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Lapavitsas has been one of the first political economists to notice their ascendancy and to devote his research to it. He offers a resolutely Marxist perspective on contemporary capitalism while remaining conversant with the history of political economy, sensitive to mainstream economic theory, and fully aware of the empirical reality of financialisation.

Citation

Lapavitsas, C. (Ed.). (2016). Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004272712

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 28, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Series Number: 134
• Series ISSN: 1570-1522
• ISBN: 9781608468300
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004272712
• Publisher URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/marxist-monetary-theory