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085: Michael Roberts on Understanding Karl Marx and His Thinking on Capitalism
Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over 30 years in the City of London. Michael is a Marxist economist and he has written on the causes of the recession of 2008 from a Marxist perspective.
He is the author of The Great Recession: Profit cycles, economic crisis A Marxist view and The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism.
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