Το κλασικό βιβλίο του I.I. Rubin αποτελεί μια πλήρη παρουσίαση και ανάλυση σε βάθος των βασικών εννοιών πάνω στις οποίες θεμελιώθηκαν οι διαφορετικές σχολές σκέψης της κλασικής πολιτικής οικονομίας.
Μ’ έναν πολύ απλό τρόπο ο συγγραφέας μας δείχνει την εξέλιξη της οικονομικής θεωρίας, αποτιμώντας ταυτόχρονα τη συνεισφορά όλων των θεωρητικών της οικονομικής επιστήμης. Γράφτηκε στην περίοδο 1926-30, όταν ο συγγραφέας εργαζόταν ως ερευνητής στο Ινστιτούτο Marx – Engels υπό τον Ryazanov.
(Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Ру́бин) was a Jewish economist and is considered to be the most important theorist of his time on the field of Karl Marx's theory of value. His main work Essays on Marx's Theory of Value was published in 1924. He was executed in 1937 during the course of the Great Purge, but his ideas have since been rehabilitated.
Isaak Ilyich Rubin provides a wonderful explanation of the historical development of various concepts within Marxian political economy. Given that it was a textbook, Rubin's style is very refreshing and quite easy to follow.
Concepts such as the Labor Theory of Value, Reproduction Theory, Surplus Value, etc. Are contextualized and the varying interpretations by different economic thinkers ranging from William Petty to Adam Smith to David Ricardo and beyond show us their various contributions to the economic sciences and their limitations.
This text in particular really drove home the true importance of Karl Marx as an economic thinker that shattered many erroneous interpretations of theory and as someone could guide us as far he did because he walked the path trodden by intellectual giants towards a future where exploitation and prosperity for all of mankind is a palpable possibility.
A concise, yet illuminating overview of the historical course of economic philosophy. Rubin proves himself a brilliant theorist, and I look forward to reading his essays on the Theory of Value. His murder is yet another tragedy we can add to Stalin’s endless list of crimes and a premature robbery of a bright mind’s insights.
Just reading material in one of my university courses ugh.. Thought I must say it did provide some interesting explanations of the historical development of various concepts within Marxian political economy.