![]() ![]() That the clerk insisted Marx was no economist is, in a way, understandable. The clerk in the store overheard us, and, in a Russian accent, barked out in protest “Marx was no economist!” We had a small exchange of words-too short to constitute a debate-while we purchased our books. One of us had mentioned to the other that Capital was Marx’s most mature work as an economist. We were plowing through dusty shelves filled mostly with books by Progress Publishers from Moscow, including the complete collected works of Lenin (which Boettke himself purchased), when I came across this gem. ![]() ![]() Pete Boettke and I were graduate students at George Mason University at the time, and once a month on Fridays we’d go shopping for used book bargains. About twenty years ago I purchased my three volumes of the definitive Charles Kerr edition of Karl Marx’s Capital from the Victor Kamkin bookstore in the Washington D.C. ![]()
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