Rudolf Hilferding : what do we still have to learn from his legacy? / edited by Judith Dellheim and Frieder Otto Wolf.

Intro
Preface to the First Edition
References
Preface to the Second Edition
Literature
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Critically Returning to Rudolf Hilferding
References
Chapter 2: Rethinking Hilferding's Finance Capital
Finance Capital: A Continuation of Marx's Capital?
Hilferding and Political Economy
What Finance Capital Was All About
What Hilferding's Opus Magnum Had to Offer
Hilferding and the Changing World of Money
Hilferding and the Changing Worlds of Credit and Banking Hilferding and the Changing World of Corporations
Hilferding and the Changing World of Stock Markets and High Finance
Hilferding's Concept of Finance Capital
Hilferding and the Marxist Theory or Theories of Crisis
How to Continue: How to Rewrite Finance Capital for Our Time
The Concept of Finance Capital Revisited
References
Chapter 3: From Luxemburg to Sweezy: Notes on the Intellectual Influence of Hilferding's Finance Capital
Introduction and Summary
Finance Capital and the Dynamics of Capitalism
Luxemburg Versus Bauer on Crisis Theory The Dominance of Finance Capital 1910-1930
Moszkowska and Underconsumption Crisis Theories
Sweezy-Baran and Monopoly Capital
Conclusion: Crisis and Finance
Appendix 1: Commodity Prices in Hilferding
Appendix 2: Stock Market Prices
References
Chapter 4: Contradictions in Hilferding's Finance Capital: Money, Banking, and Crisis Tendencies
Introduction
Money
Credit
Institutions of Finance Capital
The Stock Market
Cartels and Trusts
Capitalist Crisis
Assessment
Financial Power and Vulnerability
References Chapter 5: Finance Capital, Financialisation and the Periodisation of Capitalist Development
Introduction
Hilferding and Lapavitsas: General Considerations
Commonalities Between Lapavitsas and Hilferding
Differences Between Lapavitsas and Hilferding
Financialisation According to Lapavitsas
Criticisms of Lapavitsas' Approach
Back (or Forward?) to Hilferding
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: A New Finance Capital? Theorizing Corporate Governance and Financial Power
Toward a Marxist Theory of Corporate Governance The Financialization of the Non-financial Corporation
New Finance Capital: A New Phase of Capitalist Development?
Democratic Control and Socialist Planning
References
Chapter 7: Finance Capital and Contemporary Financialization
Hilferding's Understanding of Money
The Development of Credit: From Circulation to Production
The Development of Industrial Organization: From Private Individual to Private Collective Ownership
Ownership of Money Capital, Control of Industrial Capital and Promoter's Profit
The Transformation of Competition: Concentration and Combination

This revised and expanded book focuses on Hilferding's major work, Finance Capital. In revisiting this influential book from a methodological point of view, both historical and intellectual, the authors affirm Hilferding's place in the Marxist tradition. Hilferding's ideas are used to criticise incumbent approaches in economics and enrich existing discussions and debates about the nature of modern capitalism. In doing so, this book highlights the importance of Hilferding's work in analysing and understanding modern capitalism and corporate developments. New material looking at Hilferdings economic journalism, debates around his work in Poland, and Eugene Vargas perspective on his work is also included. The book aims to explore Hilferdings central ideas on the political economy, as well as its historical context and relation to Marx. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy, the history of economic thought, and European politics. Judith Dellheim is a senior research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany. She has worked in the foreign trade of the GDR. Since 1990, she has been working on economies of solidarity, on political parties and movements, and on economic policies. She has been a member of the Federal Board of the PDS in 19952003, a freelance scientific consultant from 20042010, and senior researcher at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2011. She is co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx. Frieder Otto Wolf is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has been a lecturer in philosophy at this institution since 1973, and became Honorary Professor in 2007. He has served as a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and sits on the advisory board of several journals. He has published books and articles on political philosophy, the politics of labor, the politics of sustainability, political epistemology, and metaphilosophy, including as co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx