Thomas Kuczynski

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Thomas Kuczynski (2018)

Thomas Kuczynski (born November 12, 1944 in London ) is a German economic historian .

Life

Thomas Kuczynski was born in London as the son of Jürgen Kuczynski and Marguerite Kuczynski . From 1963 to 1968 he studied statistics at the University of Economics , Berlin-Karlshorst , and received his doctorate in 1972 under Hans Mottek on the end of the global economic crisis in Germany (1932/33). From 1972 until its liquidation in 1991 he worked at the Institute for Economic History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and was its last director from 1988 to 1991. Since then he has worked as a freelance journalist , a. a. as an author in the Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch and in the magazine Lunapark 21 . He was married to Rita Kuczynski from 1972 to 1998 .

Thomas Kuczynski during a panel discussion (2018)
The capital of Karl Marx New text edition by Thomas Kuczynski VSA-Verlag (2017)

Kuczynski prepared a study of compensation claims for forced labor in the 'Third Reich' on the basis of the additional income and profits made at the time , in which he calculated that the Federal Republic of Germany owed the victims of forced labor in Nazi Germany around DM 180.5 billion. Later, in his book Brosamen vom Herrentisch , he increased this number to 228 billion DM (116 billion euros).

In 2007 Thomas Kuczynski took part in the theater project Karl Marx: Das Kapital first volume , directed by Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel ( Rimini Protokoll ), (production: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ; coproduction: Schauspielhaus Zürich , schauspielfrankfurt and Hebbel am Ufer , Berlin).

For more than 20 years he has worked on a reader-friendly edition of Chapter Volume 1 . The new text edition is based on the comparison of the German with the French edition, which was requested by Karl Marx , but not realized. Not only these two, but all editions and translations edited by Marx and Engels have been taken into account. With this, Thomas Kuczynski realizes a project that was tackled at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow at the time, but was never implemented after its closure (1931), whereby the state of research achieved in the Marx-Engels Complete Edition is of course taken into account.

He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the SALZ e. V.

Publications

  • The end of the global economic crisis in Germany in 1932/33 . Berlin 1972. (Berlin, University of Economics, Diss., 1972)
  • On the applicability of mathematical methods in economic history. Methodological considerations and practical experiments . Berlin 1978 (Berlin, Akad. D. Wiss. D. GDR, PhD B , 1979)
  • Economic history and mathematics. Contributions to the application of mathematical, especially statistical methods in economic and social historical research . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1985. (Ed.).
  • Brecht 88. Suggestions for the dialogue about reason at the millennium . Edited by Wolfgang Heise . Henschel, Berlin 1987. (contribution).
  • Socialism or barbarism? Berlin 1991 ISBN 3-32001-6571 .
  • The Communist Manifesto ( Manifesto of the Communist Party ) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . From the first edition to the reading edition. With an edition report . Trier 1995 ( writings from Karl-Marx-Haus 49), ISBN 3-86077-207-4 .
  • The transformation of values ​​into production prices in the context of simple reproduction . Research group Political Economy at the Institute for Political Science, Marburg 2000. ISBN 3-81850-3028 .
  • Crumbs from the gentleman's table . Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-93584-3372 .
  • Stories from the Lunapark. Historical-critical considerations on the economy of the present . Papyrossa Verlag, Cologne 2014. ISBN 978-3-89438-562-0 .
  • Karl Marx. Wages, prices and profit Laika Verlag, Hamburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-944233-30-7
  • Karl Marx. The capital . Critique of Political Economy, Volume I: The Production Process of Capital , new text edition with USB card, edited and edited by Thomas Kuczynski. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-89965-777-7 .
  • On the concept of the mode of production in Marx. Centrality, ambiguity and differentiation . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 2018/19 . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86754-685-0 , pp. 11-20.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author page in VSA-Verlag
  2. ^ Karl Marx: Das Kapital, first volume , website at Rimini Protokoll
  3. ^ VSA publishing house
personal data
SURNAME Kuczynski, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH London