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Cover -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface to the First Edition -- Foreword to 1962 Printing -- Contents -- ONE: A General View -- TWO: The Concept of the Economic Surplus -- THREE: Standstill and Movement Under Monopoly Capitalism, I -- FOUR: Standstill and Movement Under Monopoly Capitalism, II -- FIVE: On the Roots of Backwardness -- SIX: Towards a Morphology of Backwardness, I -- SEVEN: Towards a Morphology of Backwardness, II -- EIGHT: The Steep Ascent -- INDEX.

El ensayo examina las posibilidades de la política económica y de la planificación a fin de lograr el pleno empleo de la fuerza de trabajo. Aborda las herramientas que pueden utilizarse para este objetivo (la política fiscal en especial), y su potencial y debilidades en relación con las metas de pleno empleo, para evitar procesos inflacionarios. Señala que una planificación precisa resulta prácticamente imposible, tanto por el poco conocimiento que se posee de la conducta de variables decisivas —por ejemplo, la inversión—, como, de modo esencial, por las consecuencias perjudiciales para la clase dominante que tendría el pleno empleo en el poder de regateo de la clase trabajadora. La única modalidad que podría permitir el acceso al pleno empleo sin presiones inflacionarias radicaría en la implementación de un régimen del tipo nazi.

Blessed were the times when a man's decision about his fate lay in his own hands. Blessed were the times when he relied upon himself and was under no one's direct command and formed his life through his direct relationship to nature. These were times of transparent clarity; these were times of child-like belief in God; these were times of inner peace. The environment [<em>Umwelt</em>] of the man of that time existed outside of his horizon; its events passed him by or broke into his life naturally, suddenly, overwhelmingly. Wars and starvation, epidemics and bad harvests stood on the same plane&mdash;they were to man equally strange, equally incomprehensible, equally remote.&hellip; This assault of his environment into his existence, these catastrophes which from time to time would bring his life into turmoil, man could not explain to himself. For they were of a different type than he was; for they were covered by a thick impenetrable shroud&hellip;. Faith replaced knowledge at that time; prayer replaced action, and fear replaced circumspection.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-8" title="Vol. 67, No. 8: January 2016" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

Discusses the relevance of Marxist analysis to the development of a rational social science, & particularly the process of historical change, asserting that the dialectical unity of subject & object is required to address some fundamental theoretical & methodological deficiencies. Adapted from the source document.