Margaret Wirth

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Margaret Wirth (born March 16, 1943 in Oxford , Great Britain ) is a German political and economic scientist .

Wirth studied political science, history and economics in Munich and Berlin . From 1973 until her retirement in 2006 she was Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen . Her main areas of work are economic policy, the relationship between the state and the economy and Marxism . She is part of the editorial team of GegenStandpunkt magazine .

Publications

  • Theory of capitalism in the GDR . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1972.
  • On the function of a critique of the bourgeois economy today . In: Jürgen Klüver, Frieder Otto Wolf (ed.): Criticism of science and socialist practice. Consequences from the student movement. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1973.
  • On the criticism of the theory of state monopoly capitalism . In: Problems of the class struggle 8/9, 1973 (November 6, 2013; PDF; 6.2 MB).
  • Welfare state illusion and current crisis . In: Left. Socialist newspaper . Socialist office . Offenbach. May 1974. pp. 15-17.
  • Peter von Oertzen , Jörg Huffschmid , Margaret Wirth: Theory and Practice of Direct Democracy. Texts and materials for the council discussion . VS publishing house for social sciences. Wiesbaden 1985.
  • Margaret Wirth, Wolfgang Möhl: Employment, globalization, location. Notes on the capitalist relationship between work and wealth . Object point. Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-929211-14-6

Lectures

  • What does Germany and what does Europe want in the Middle East as a theater of war? [1] (12/2006; MP3; 78.4 MB)
  • Family policy in Germany [2] (2007)
  • Why the rational core of the women's question with the demand for equal rights is not settled . [3] (January 13, 2009; MP3; 30.9 MB)
  • The election - a great moment of democratic rule . [4] (September 8, 2009; MP3; 37.8 MB)
  • Year 5 of the world financial crisis. Imperialist money worries - and how the peoples are bothered with them . [5] (October 25, 2011; MP3; 46.6 MB)
  • Crisis policy in the EU: Europe should heal through more poverty everywhere! [6] (June 13, 2012; MP3; 37.5 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-born economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford , UK