Karl Marx Capital Book Report

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I feel particularly ashamed that I wasn 't able to read the book of Karl Marx “Capital” ( 1 st edition, 1867) until now. In 2018 it will be the Birthday of the 200 years of Karl Marx, and I feel the obligation to read Capital before.
The book is a classic of economic science, written from the standpoint of the labor theory of value.

Through this book we discover the idea of the fundamental materialism of Marx.
The work of Karl Marx is the culmination of classical political economy, he had a global impact on the course of history in the XX century.
Some consider his work to be epic and titanic, and some treat him to be a liar, as he proclaimed the victory of socialism but leads a capitalistic way of life himself.
It 's known, that Capital
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Though he predicted the destruction of the capitalism by the social movements, there is no project of communism in the Capital (as it claimed by the former soviet scientists) . Accordingly to them, the Soviet Union was not built according to Marx 's idea, because Marx had the unfinished project of communism, he only gave a definition of what can be called Communism, in contrary,he never gave the detailed design of its construction. Lenin, just found suitable ideas into his theory and used a hybrid form of Marxist …show more content…
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2) Nasar, Sylvia (November 13, 1994). "The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate". The New York Times. Princeton, New Jersey. Retrieved May 6, 2014.

First of all I saw a movie with Russel Crowe A Beautiful Mind (2001), directed by Ron Howard. Film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Secondly, I 'm particularly interested about the application of a game theory, developed by John Nash, and defended as a PhD dissertation ( Princeton) which more than 54 years later brought Nash the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (along with John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten) for his contributions to game theory(1994). I would like to understand the life and contribution of this phenomenal scientist, who could publish 23 scientific studies during 50 years of his career (Between 1945 and 1996), at most, while suffering from such a significant psychological issue, as a paranoid

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