Mylène Gaulard, Karl Marx à Pékin – Les racines de la crise en Chine capitaliste (Karl Marx in Beijing: Roots of crisis in Chinese capitalism),

Mylene Gaulard’s book is as compelling as it is problematic. It is compelling because it offers new paths of reflection by challenging key concepts that a new globalised economic doxa wants to be taken at face value. In a world where economics seems to have become the very heart of political action, it is important to note that this discipline is not an exact science and that the grand certitudes of economism are quite often retrospective. As with history, economics is an account, which does ...