Category Archives: Economic History

Did Capitalism Cause the Irish Famine?

Posted on July 25, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

Nathan Cedric Tankus ran a piece yesterday on Naked Capitalism about Karl Marx’s interpretation of the Irish famine in his Das Kapital. The theory that Tankus is referring to is laid out in Chapter 25 of the book. The whole … Continue reading →

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