This book was a revised version of my doctoral thesis (1995) published in hardcover by Routledge (London), in 1999 — Studies in the History of Economics #25 — and later as an eBook, and then released in paperback in 2014.

Reviews included a review article by PA O’Hara (2000) ‘Money and credit in Marx’s political economy and contemporary capitalism’, History of Economics Review 32, pp. 83–95; a book review by CJ Arthur (2001) Capital and Class 73, pp. 181–82 and Peter Beilharz (2001) Thesis Eleven 67, pp. 122–27. Beilharz, editor of Thesis Eleven, wrote:

‘Fastidious in its detail, it carefully reconstructs all the obvious textual sources and hints scattered through Marx’s project …

Nelson’s book mirrors Marx’s great work, in that it pursues something closer to structural analysis yet issues less expectedly in political urgency …

bookended by a sense of ecological crisis …

Nelson’s is a valuable contribution.’

For related publications see Life Without Money book page and Publications coded money and Marx (INTERNAL LINKS)