A.Leontiev: Political Economy, A Beginners' Course

[Ned Kelly]

Published in 1935, this was used as a study guide in Communist Party discussions the world over for years. While the language is a bit creaky and old, I found it a fantastic and in depth look at Marx's exposition of the capitalist economic process in easier to read language than Kapital, and makes the reading of Kapital easier to digest. I would definitely recommend it to others.

I was just wondering if anyone else had read it?

[vyborg]

I studied Leontiev and IO analysis at the university. It's one of the few real scientific advancement in economic theory during the XX century. It is a powerful and useful theory. That's why even if was basically stolen from the Gosplan, it is still used by the OECD...

[BostonCharlie]

The Wassily Leontiev of Input-Output analysis is different from the author of the book that is the subject of this thread.

But IO analysis is indeed interesting stuff.