Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

“This is an absolutely wonderful book. I wish I’d read it 15 or 20 years ago. It greatly increases my sense of how he reached his positions and why he was so certain that he was right. Also, the book shows that, although he may not have come up with all the answers, he was certainly in there trying to develop them and he certainly came up with points of tension and worries that still worry us today. Marx stands at the origin of a great deal of what is still live in modern economics.” Read more...

The Best Books on the Classical Economists

Brad DeLong, Economist

“Sperber goes into a great deal of background on Marx’s family.” Read more...

The best books on Marx and Marxism

Terrell Carver, Political Scientist