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Polish Marxism after Luxemburg

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Research in Political Economy

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State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

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Research in Political Economy Volume 37

Polish Marxism after Luxemburg

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Jan Toporowski

SOAS University of London, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

In memory of Tadeusz Kowalik

About the Contributors

Riccardo Bellofiore was Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy), where he taught Advanced Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Monetary Economics and History of Economic Thought. His points of view are heretic rather than heterodox, and explore the nowhere land intersecting the reconstruction of Marxian value and crisis theory with a Schumperian structural perspective and Financial Keynesianism.

Joseph Halevi is an Honorary Member of Macquarie University, Australia, and is on the Faculty of International University College, Turin, Italy.

Grzegorz Konat works at the Research Institute for Economic Development, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.

Peter Kriesler is an Honorary Member of the Industrial Relations Research Group in the School of Business of the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Rick Kuhn is a member of Socialist Alternative in Australia and a social and union movement activist. He was a university teacher and researcher for many years.

Roberto Lampa is Senior Researcher at the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and an Assistant Professor at the School of Higher Social Studies, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He holds an international PhD in History of Political Economy from the University of Macerata and a post-doc grant from the University of Salento, Italy. He has carried out doctoral and postdoctoral research on the economic thought of Oskar Lange. He is visiting scholar at the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, New School for Social Research (New York), University of Macerata (Italy) and Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). He is a member of the Executive Board of the Latin American Society for the History of Political Economy (ALAHPE) and a member of the Editorial Board of Forum for Social Economics journal.

Gabriele Pastrello studied Economics in Bologna, and in Warsaw, under Kazimierz Łaski, Mieczysław Nasiłowski and Tadeusz Kowalik. He has worked in Modena and Trieste, with research periods on planned economies at the Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleichung di Vienna (Vienna Institute for Comparative Economics). Gabriele Pastrello has been a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences, Cambridge (UK).

Gavin Rae is a sociologist working at Koźmiński University in Poland. He has written extensively on Poland and the transition from socialism to capitalism, including two books: Poland's Return to Capitalism: From the Socialist Bloc to the European Union and Privatising Captial: The Commodification of Poland's Welfare State. He has researched and published on a range of related topics, including the welfare state in Poland, post-socialist political economy and the Polish left. He is currently writing an intellectual biography of Tadeusz Kowalik, due to be published by Manchester University Press in 2023.

Hanna Szymborska is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Birmingham City University, UK. She has previously worked at the Open University, UK, and the UK Civil Service. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Leeds. She specialises in the issues of economic inequality and the financialisation of the economy. In her research, Dr Szymborska analyses links between macro- and microeconomic dimensions of inequality, investigating the impact of changing financial systems and economic policy on class, gender and race inequality. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited volumes and policy reports.

Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS, University of London, and Professor of Economics and Finance at the International University College, Turin, Italy. He studied economics at Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Birmingham. Jan Toporowski is the author of a two-volume biography of Michał Kalecki.

Daniele Tori is a Lecturer in Finance at the Open University Business School (UK). Daniele's current research focuses on processes of financialisation, financial history and social aspects of finance, using various methodologies. His work has been published in various journals such as Cambridge Journal of Economics, Socio-Economic Review, The Journal of Economic History, and Macroeconomic Dynamics. He is a member of the editorial board of Moneta e Credito.

Andrew B. Trigg is Professor of Economics at The Open University, co-director of the Open Political Economy Group (OPEG) and was previously founding chair of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE). His work has been published widely in internationally refereed journals, and includes his 2006 monograph, Marxian Reproduction Schema, published by Routledge.