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Engels' Political Economy - the annual Engels Lecture with Economist Michael Roberts
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Michael Roberts presents an online lecture on 'Engels - his contribution to political economy.'
Michael Roberts worked in the City of London as an economist for over 40 years. He has closely observed the machinations of global capitalism from within the dragon’s den. At the same time, he was a political activist in the labour movement for decades.
Since retiring, he has written several books. The Great Recession – a Marxist view (2009); The Long Depression (2016); Marx 200: a review of Marx’s economics (2018): and jointly with Guglielmo Carchedi as editors of World in Crisis (2018).
You can find a link to the slides in the lecture here: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/engels-presentation-2024.pdf
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