A brief history of economic

thought

Karl Marx

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

He was born on 5
May 1818 in Trier

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

In 1835 he went to
Bonn
University
to
study law and the year
after he moved to
Berlin

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

His original intention was

to go on with his legal
studies, but was drawn
first into the philosophy of
law,
and
then
into
philosophy

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

Karl Marxs major ideas:

He
was
influenced
by
ideas

strongly
Hegels

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

Karl Marxs major ideas:

In
1841
received
his
doctorate for a thesis entitled
Difference
Between
the
Democritean
and
Epicurean
Philosophy of Nature

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

Karl Marxs major ideas:

He worked in a newspaper called

The Rheinische Zeitung a year
later he moved to Cologne and
became its chief editor. In 1843 he
and his family moved to Paris after
censorship made his work almost
impossible in Germany

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

Karl Marxs major ideas:

In 1845 Marx gets expelled

from France and moves to
Brussels, where he was soon
joined by Engels

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

Karl Marxs major ideas:

In 1849, the Marx family moved

to London and Marx obtained a
ticket to the Reading Room of the
British Museum. He started for the
first time to study economics,
drawing
especially
on
the
Economist

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx
Karl
Marxs
major
ideas:
Marx had originally intended the
Contribution to be only the introduction to the
Economics, which would be separated into six
volumes:
(1) Capital
(2) Landed Property
(3) Wage Labor
(4) The State
(5) International Trade
(6) The World Market

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

Karl Marxs major ideas:

Marx abandoned the six-volume

scheme, and decided instead to call the
whole work Capital, which would be divided
into four volumes
(1)production
(2)circulation
(3)the system as a whole
(4)theories of surplus value

A brief history of economic thought : Karl

Marx

Karl Marxs major ideas:

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Karl Marx in Greece:

The
first
attempt
to
translate
Capital
was
made back in 1927 by P.
Pouliopoulos and G. Doumas

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Pouliopoulos
arrested by
Karl Marx was
in Greece:
the fascist Metaxas regime,
and then executed in 1943 by
Italian
forces
during
the
occupation of Greece in the
WW2 before he could finish his
translation.

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Karl Marx in Greece:

The attempts that were made

later by Giannis Kordatos and
D. Pournaras were also never
completed

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Karl Marx in Greece:

The first complete publication
of Das Kapital was made by
the lawyer Giannis Skouriotis in
the 50s. Skouriotis translated
the text straight from the
German prototype

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Karl Marx in Greece:

Skouriotiss
translation
was
published in several issues at
his own expenses between
1954 and 1960

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Karl Marx in Greece:

The complete translation that can be

found in the market today was made
by Panagiotis Mavromatis, a delegate
of CPG. The first two volumes were
published abroad, because the CPG
was outlawed until the mid-70

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Karl Marx in Greece:

The complete edition was made after

the collapse of the military junta in
1974 . In the following decade the
Capital was printed in four volumes
(including surplus value theories)

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Karl Marx in Greece:

From 1978 until 2009 the first
volume
sold
over
23.000
copies, the second 15.000, the
third 12.000 and the forth
8.000

A brief history of economic thought : David

Ricardo

Karl Marx in Greece:

From 1978 until 2009 the first
volume
sold
over
23.000
copies, the second 15.000, the
third 12.000 and the forth
8.000