Ep. 1521 Why Economists Never Took Marx Seriously

Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 9:30 p.m.

It's fashionable to like Karl Marx again, so it's worth remembering that economists dismissed him from the beginning. The Marginal Revolution of the early 1870s upended the foundations of Marxism, and Marx himself never seems to have recognized what happened. Phil Magness, editor of a new volume of Marx's writings, joins me to discuss this.