Introduction: Critically Returning to Rudolf Hilferding
Judith Dellheim and Frieder Otto Wolf
Rethinking Hilferding’s Finance Capital
Michael R. Krätke
From Luxemburg to Sweezy: Notes on the Intellectual Influence of Hilferding’s Finance Capital
Nikos Stravelakis
Contradictions in Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, banking and crisis tendencies
Patrick Bond
Finance Capital, Financialisation and the Periodisation of Capitalist Development
Andy Kilmister
A New Finance Capital? Theorizing Corporate Governance and Financial Power
Steve Maher and Scott Aquanno
Finance Capital and Contemporary Financialisation
Radhika Desai
Finance Capital and Militarism as Pillars of Contemporary Capitalism
Claude Serfati
Hilferding and the Large-scale Enterprise
John Grahl
Hilferding and Kalecki
Jan Toporowski
Ludwik Krzywicki’s Anticipation of Hilferding
Jan Toporowski
A Socialist Third Way? Rudolf Hilferding’s Evolutionary Socialism as Syncopated Note to Early Neoliberalism
Patrick Higgins
Hilferding as an Eclectic: A History of Economic Thought Perspective on Finance Capital
Jan Greitens
Rudolf Hilferding on the Economic Categories of ‘public limited company/share capital’: A Refinement of the Critique of Political Economy?
Judith Dellheim
Hilferding’s Impressive Failure. A Reading of His Last Major Text
Frieder Otto Wolf
The Forgotten “Notes”. Rudolf Hilferding’s still unpublished complements to his manuscript “The Historical Problem”
Michael R. Krätke
Rudolf Hilferding - A Born Journalist
Michael R. Krätke
Postface: From Rudolf Hilferding to Eugen Varga – towards a further book project
Judith Dellheim and Frieder Otto Wolf
Judith Dellheim is a senior research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany. She has worked in the foreign trade of the GDR. Since 1990, she has been working on economies of solidarity, on political parties and movements, and on economic policies. She has been a member of the Federal Board of the PDS in 1995–2003, a freelance scientific consultant from 2004–2010, and senior researcher at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2011. She is co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx.
Frieder Otto Wolf is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has been a lecturer in philosophy at this institution since 1973, and became Honorary Professor in 2007. He has served as a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and sits on the advisory board of several journals. He has published books and articles on political philosophy, the politics of labor, the politics of sustainability, political epistemology, and metaphilosophy, including as co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx.
This revised and expanded book focuses on Hilferding's major work, Finance Capital. In revisiting this influential book from a methodological point of view, both historical and intellectual, the authors affirm Hilferding's place in the Marxist tradition. Hilferding's ideas are used to criticise incumbent approaches in economics and enrich existing discussions and debates about the nature of modern capitalism. In doing so, this book highlights the importance of Hilferding's work in analysing and understanding modern capitalism and corporate developments. New material looking at Hilferding’s economic journalism, debates around his work in Poland, and Eugene Varga’s perspective on his work is also included.
The book aims to explore Hilferding’s central ideas on the political economy, as well as its historical context and relation to Marx. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy, the history of economic thought, and European politics.
Judith Dellheim is a senior research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany. She has worked in the foreign trade of the GDR. Since 1990, she has been working on economies of solidarity, on political parties and movements, and on economic policies. She has been a member of the Federal Board of the PDS in 1995–2003, a freelance scientific consultant from 2004–2010, and senior researcher at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2011. She is co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx.
Frieder Otto Wolf is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has been a lecturer in philosophy at this institution since 1973, and became Honorary Professor in 2007. He has served as a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and sits on the advisory board of several journals. He has published books and articles on political philosophy, the politics of labor, the politics of sustainability, political epistemology, and metaphilosophy, including as co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx.