Karl Marx

1. A brief history of economic thought Karl Marx

2. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx He was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier

3. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx

4. 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

5. 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

6. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx Karl Marx’s major ideas: He was strongly influenced by Hegel’s ideas

7. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx Karl Marx’s major ideas: In 1841 received his doctorate for a thesis entitled ‘Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature’

8. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx Karl Marx’s major ideas: He worked in a newspaper called “The RheinischeZeitung” 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

9. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx Karl Marx’s major ideas: In 1845 Marx gets expelled from France and moves to Brussels, where he was soon joined by Engels

10. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx Karl Marx’s 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

11. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx Karl Marx’s 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

12. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx Karl Marx’s 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

13. A brief history of economic thought : Karl Marx Karl Marx’s major ideas:

14. 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

15. A brief history of economic thought : David Ricardo Karl Marx in Greece: Pouliopoulos was arrested by the fascist Metaxa’sregime, and then executed in 1943 by Italian forces during the occupation of Greece in the WW2 before he could finish his translation.

16. A brief history of economic thought : David Ricardo Karl Marx in Greece: The attempts that were made later by GiannisKordatos and D. Pournaras were also never completed

17. A brief history of economic thought : David Ricardo Karl Marx in Greece: The first complete publication of “Das Kapital” was made by the lawyer GiannisSkouriotis in the 50’s. Skouriotis translated the text straight from the German prototype

18. A brief history of economic thought : David Ricardo Karl Marx in Greece: Skouriotis’stranslation was published in several issues at his own expenses between 1954 and 1960

19. 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 PanagiotisMavromatis, a delegate of CPG. The first two volumes were published abroad, because the CPG was outlawed until the mid-70

20. 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”)

21. 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

22. 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