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From: "Fellows, Jeffrey" <jmf9-AT-cdc.gov>
Subject: RE: M-I: Re: M-TH: starting Marx
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 09:38:00 -0500


As a good introduction to Marx and other heterodox economics, e.g.,
Thorstein Veblen, I have found E.K. Hunt's _Property and Prophets_ to be
invaluable. It is geared toward students just beginning their economics
educations.

Jeff Fellows
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From: Lew
To: marxism-international-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: M-I: Re: M-TH: starting Marx
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 8:43AM

In article <l03102807b0b46eef245c-AT-[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood
<dhenwood-AT-panix.com> writes

>A friend of mine asked where to start reading Marx. I thought the
>Manifesto, the Econ & Polit Ms of 1844, the German Ideology, the 18th
>Brumaire, and then Capital. What do other folks think?

I wouldn't recommend reading Marx himself first. A lot of his works
require a background understanding of the context and related arguments
in order to make sense of what he is saying. Without this understanding
of context the new reader is liable to find the going daunting and give
up. Try a good introductory work, like Rubel's _Marx Without Myth_, but
avoid the works by McLellan. Then they could try some of the works
mentioned above.

 --
Lew


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