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Five documents compiled by Anwar M. Shaikh, PhD, of the Department of Economics, New School for Social Research. Materials span 1992–1994 and represent drafts, course materials, and a working paper related to Shaikh's research in Marxian political economy. All items are unpublished in the forms preserved here, with extensive handwritten annotations throughout.

Item 1. The economic analysis of capitalist systems (draft, n.d.). Title page, introduction, and chapter outline for a projected book-length treatment organized in five parts: (I) the structure of Marxian political economy; (II) commodities, money, and capital; (III) Marxist categories and national accounts; (IV) accumulation and crises; and (V) the theory of competition. Argues that Marx's Capital provides an enduring foundation for theoretical and empirical analysis. Minimally annotated.

Item 2. The development of Marxian political economy: From Marx's Capital to the theory of monopoly capital (chapter draft, n.d.). Surveys Western Marxian political economy from Marx through classical figures (Kautsky, Hilferding, Luxemburg, Lenin, Grossmann) to modern currents (Kalecki, Sweezy, Mandel, Mattick). Heavily annotated; a handwritten note indicates the draft was superseded as of February 1985.

Item 3. Luxemburg's accumulation of capital: A critique (ca. 1985). Extended analysis of Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital, including a biographical sketch, examination of her critique of Marx's reproduction schemes and theory of imperialism, and engagement with Bukharin's 1924 response. Heavily annotated with marginal commentary, strikethroughs, and yellow highlighting.

Item 4. The economic analysis of capitalist systems — second recension (n.d.). A later, more complete version of Item 1, laser-printed with a formal table of contents listing chapters 1–5. Extensively annotated with red and blue pen, highlighting, circling, and interlinear insertions.

Item 5. The analytical structure of classical Marxian economics, Working Paper No. 49 (November 1994). Develops the concept of regulating capital as the basis for price formation and profit-rate equalization, and extends the theory of competition to international trade via an absolute-costs framework against comparative advantage. Minimally annotated.

Appended course materials. Three items filed with the above: two course outlines for Advanced Political Economy I–II (Econ 204–205, Fall 1993) and a reading list for Introduction to Political Economy I (GE 106, Fall 1992), covering topics from value theory and the labor process to accumulation and the welfare state. Several handwritten annotations indicate subsequent revisions and incorporation of readings from a colleague's list.

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