Monopoly Capital is a Marxian investigation of trends already noted by liberal economists - the price-fixing, the cartels, the inbuilt tendency towards monopoly within the American economic and social system. The author's analysis of the implications of corporate monopoly and the dynamics of exploitation in the Third World amounts to a rigorous twentieth-century reinterpretation of traditional Marxian theory.

Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

Business & Money

Baran, Paul A.

Economics

Monthly Review+press

Monopoly Capitalism: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (First edition)

Sweezy, Paul M.

This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought, a hugely influential book that continues to shape our understanding of modern capitalism. “This book… deals with a vital area of economics, has a unique approach, is stimulating and well written. It represents the first serious attempt to extend Marx’s model of competitive capitalism to the new conditions of monopoly capitalism.” — Howard J. Sherman, American Economic Review

The Political Economy of Growth

The longer view;: Essays toward a critique of political economy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

These essays by the author of The Political Economy of Growth and co-author of Monopoly Capital cover the working range of a strong and original mind. They are as diverse as his well-known discussion of Marxism and psychoanalysis, and his expert handling of the politics and economics of development.

Longer View (Modern Reader)

Marxism and Psychoanalysis

Hassell Street Press

The rich correspondence that preceded the publication of Monopoly Capital Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy were two of the leading Marxist economists of the twentieth century. Their seminal work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order, published in 1966, two years after Baran's death, was in many respects the culmination of fifteen years of correspondence between the two, from 1949 to 1964. During those years, Baran, a professor of economics at Stanford, and Sweezy, a former professor of economics at Harvard, then co-editing Monthly Review in New York City, were separated by three thousand miles. Their intellectual collaboration required that they write letters to one another frequently and, in the years closer to 1964, almost daily. Their surviving correspondence consists of some one thousand letters. The letters selected for this volume illuminate not only the development of the political economy that was to form the basis of Monopoly Capital, but also the historical context—the McCarthy Era, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis—in which these thinkers were forced to struggle. Not since Marx and Engels carried on their epistolary correspondence has there has been a collection of letters offering such a detailed look at the making of a prescient critique of political economy—and at the historical conditions from which that critique was formed.

The Age of Monopoly Capital: Selected Correspondence of Paul M. Sweezy and Paul A. Baran, 1949-1964

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