Lefteris Tsoulfidis and Persefoni Tsaliki, Classical Political Economics and Modern Capitalism. Theories of Value, Competition, Trade and Long Cycles

Abstract

The revival of Classical Political Economy (CPE) has multiple origins in the history of economic thought since the 19th century. It originated in discussions about Marxian economics in Germany, France, England, Russia, the United States and elsewhere since the Communist Manifesto, in Keynesian and Postkeynesian economics, especially in Cambridge since the 1930s and, probably most important for the academic recognition of this subject, in Sraffa’s publication of Ricardo’s works and his own boo...