Marx on Money

By Suzanne De Brunhoff

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s investigation into Karl Marx’s conception of “the money commodity” brings vital discussion to commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money as the crystallization of value in its material sense is central to how we understand capitalism and how it can be abolished. Marx on Money is a well-written analysis of how money, credit, debt and value fit into the “logic of capital” that characterizes commodity society.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Verso
• Release date: Sep 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781784782276

Suzanne De Brunhoff

Suzanne De Brunhoff (1929-2015) was a French economist who wrote widely on monetary policy and Marx's own views on the significance of money within capitalist society. She also published in English the book State, Capital and Economic Policy. She taught at the Universit� of Paris X Nanterre, was an active member of the French Communist Party, and participated in the struggle for Algerian independence.

Reviews for Marx on Money

[stillatim · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Inelegant. Someone would have to explain to me what Brunhoff is doing here that could be helpful; to her credit, she herself notes the problem of reading Marx as a theorist of equilibrium in her afterword. But in general, I'm wary of books that treat Marx as an economist of a later-twentieth century variety, rather than a classical economist and philosopher.