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Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
Cover of the 1967 edition
Authors
Paul Sweezy, Paul A. Baran
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United States
Language
English
Subject
Monopoly
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Publication date
1966
Media type
Print
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Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order is a 1966 book by the Marxian economists Paul Sweezy and Paul A. Baran. It was published by Monthly Review Press. It made a major contribution to Marxian theory by shifting attention from the assumption of a competitive economy to the monopolistic economy associated with the giant corporations that dominate the modern accumulation process. Their work played a leading role in the intellectual development of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s. As a review in the American Economic Review stated, it represented "the first serious attempt to extend Marx’s model of competitive capitalism to the new conditions of monopoly capitalism."[1] It attracted renewed attention following the Great Recession.[2]
^Sherman, Howard J. (1966). "Monopoly Capital-An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order". American Economic Review. 56 (4): 919–21.
^"Monthly Review | Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital, then and Now". November 2015.
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