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 ---------- 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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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