Description: The purpose of this translated volume Tadeusz Kowalik's book is to examine Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to economic theory. The essential subject-matter is the dependence of capital accumulation on effective demand, the dependence of economic growth on specific capitalist barriers to growth.
Review Quotes: "It provides a key to the analysis of her work and its importance to the political economy of the first half of the twentieth century. It is also a reading of great interest to the history of economic thought in a more general sense ... . The book is concise and analytically dense, but also very readable, with chapters and parts well articulated with each other." (Alexandre Mendes Cunha, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 23 (4), 2016)