Rudolf Hilferding on English Mercantilism

GAIDO, DANIEL FERNANDO

HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

Duke University Press

Lugar: Durham, N.C.; Año: 2016 vol. 48 p. 449 - 470

0018-2702

In 1911 Rudolf Hilferding, the author of the famous book Finance Capital: A Study of the Most Recent Development of Capitalism, published an article on the history of English mercantilism in Die neue Zeit, the theoretical organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany edited by Karl Kautsky. The writing of the article was motivated by the publication, the previous year, of the third volume of the Theories of Surplus Value, containing Marx´s analysis of the work of Richard Jones, as well as by the simultaneous appearance of a German edition of Thomas Mun´s England´s Treasure by Forraign Trade. This article is followed by the first English edition of Hilferding's "The Early Days of English Political Economy," previously available only in German, preceded by an introduction which contextualizes it in the framework of the history of Marxist scholarship.