El dinero y la teoría 
I have started reading Heinrich’s ‘An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital’. I decided to read it after I was told that this was probably the most influential work published by what are termed the ‘value form’ theorists. Up until this point I had known of Heinrich only by his participation on the OPE-L mailing list, a list for people interested in Marxian political economy.
Abstract: Returning to Marx’s analysis in the third volume of Capital we shall endeavour to outline a Marxist interpretation of contemporary capitalism, contemporary financialization and the crisis of 2008. Crucial in this connection are the concept of fictitious capital and the associated with it process of capitalization. Financialization should be conceived as a type of organization and a mode of exercising capitalist power, which consists of a whole set of instruments, techniques, levels of application and targets. In this way, financialization as a generalization of these processes into a complex system comprises a decisive link for the enforcement of the capital domination. This means that our study does not concentrate merely on the ‘productive’ or ‘unproductive’ effects that financialization might have on ‘development’ or ‘consumption’, but on a whole series of other possible and crucial effects which seem marginal at first sight. As a consequence, we regard finance as a complex social function that cannot be isolated from ‘real’ economy.
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Luego del estallido de la crisis económica de proporciones colosales que se ha extendido por el globo entero, en su más reciente forma de manifestación desde 2008 a la fecha, se ha actualizado la discusión sobre los problemas de la desigualdad económica, la concentración de la riqueza y los inmensos problemas asociados a la pobreza y a las malogradas promesas del desarrollo.
The Henry George School of Social Science, and the New School of Social Research invite you to follow Professor Anwar M. Shaikh in a new series of lectures exploring his new ground-breaking Economic treatise, “Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises”. The course will be introduced over two semesters. Recordings of the first semester, becoming available now, is comprised of 15 lectures. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel, Henry George School of Social Science to receive updates as new lectures are added.
Competition and conflict are intrinsic features of modern societies, inequality is persistent, and booms and busts are recurrent outcomes throughout capitalist history. State intervention modifies these patterns, but does not abolish them.
Professor Shaikh exposes how these and many other observed patterns are the results of intrinsic forces that shape and channel outcomes. Social and institutional factors play an important role, but at the same time, the factors are themselves limited by the dominant forces arising from “gain-seeking” behavior, of which the profit motive is the most important. These dominant elements create an invisible force field that shapes and channels capitalist outcomes.
The book’s approach departs from that of orthodox economics as well as the dominant elements in the heterodox tradition. There is no reference whatsoever to an idealized framework rooted in perfect firms, perfect individuals, perfect knowledge, perfectly selfish behavior, rational expectations, or so-called optimal outcomes. The book develops microeconomic and macroeconomic theory from real behavior and real competition, and uses it to explain empirical patterns in microeconomic demand and supply, wage and profits, technological change, relative prices of goods and services, interest rates, bond and equity prices, exchange rates, patterns of international trade, growth, unemployment, inflation, national and personal inequality, and the recurrence of general crises such as the current one which began in 2007-2008.
En este libro estudia en profundidad la financiarización, probablemente el concepto más relevante para entender el capitalismo contemporáneo y, por ende, la larga fase de crisis que se inició en 2007.En este libro estudia en profundidad la financiarización, probablemente el concepto más relevante para entender el capitalismo contemporáneo y, por ende, la larga fase de crisis que se inició en 2007. Entendida como una forma de organización económica que ya no busca asegurar el crecimiento, el empleo o la inversión, sino el incremento de los beneficios por vía financiera, la financiarización ha impregnado el comportamiento de todos los agentes económicos (empresas, hogares, Estados). En este tiempo, el empresario se ha convertido en inversor, el beneficio en renta financiera y las inversiones en meros movimientos de masas de capital. Con el objeto de comprender la magnitud de estos cambios, Lapavitsas se empeña en una investigación original que le lleva a revisar todo lo que de relevante se ha escrito sobre el dinero y las finanzas y, de forma especial, los aportes marxistas. 
Gracias a los esfuerzos de marxistas a lo largo de todo el mundo, progresivamente tenemos a nuestra disposición, más obras de Marx traducidas en diferentes idiomas para su consulta. Recientemente, gracias a la editorial Brill y a la Revista 
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