The essays in this book are the texts of four public lectures on Marx's Capital , delivered by C. P. Chandrasekhar on the occasion of 150 years since the publication of Volume 1. The essays are "Capital and the Critique of Bourgeois Political Economy"; "Order and Anarchy in the Capitalist System"; 'Revisiting Capital in the Age of Finance"; and "Marx's Capital and the Current Crisis in Capitalism." The book includes an introduction by Prabhat Patnaik.
C.P. Chandrasekhar is Dean, School of Social Sciences, and Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.