Chapter 1 Urban and Regional Economics — Marxist Perspectives*The author would like to thank Candace Kim Edel and Richard Arnott for ideas and assistance with this study, and to acknowledge the help over the years, in understanding aspects of these materials, of David Barkin, Laurence Harris, Steve Hymer, Harry Magdoff, Ann Markusen, Emilio Pradilla, Steve Rose, and Bill Tabb and of the Union for Radical Political Economics and the Conference of Socialist Economists., Edel Matthew;