Foretelling the End of Capitalism

Intellectual Misadventures since Karl Marx

Francesco Boldizzoni

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$36.00 • £28.95 • €32.50

ISBN 9780674919327

Publication Date: 05/12/2020

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336 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Francesco Boldizzoni is Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the author of two books about economic and intellectual history, The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History and Means and Ends: The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500–1970.

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