Author: Damian Merciar

Damian Merciar is Managing Director of Merciar Business Consulting, http://www.merciar.com, a niche business economics consultancy founded in 1998. He has over twenty years experience in the areas of commercial Business Strategy. He is experienced in the transition environments of nationalized to private sector state utilities and the senior practice of commercial management, advisorial consultancy, and implementation. He has carried out policy advisory work for government ministries and been an adviser to institutional bodies proposing changes to government. He holds an MSc Economics from the University of Surrey’s leading Economics department and an MBA from the University of Kent. Also attending the leading University in the Middle East, studying International Relations and Language, for which he won a competitive international scholarship, and has a BA (Hons) in Economic History and Political Economy from the University of Portsmouth. He is currently based in London.

Learning from the Great Depression – a Marxist perspective

As an undergraduate, I spent 6 months learning Marxist Economics. I was enthralled, it was imbued with romanticism. It helped my learning, substantially, and made me a better Classical Liberal. 

Sadly, much of this approach has fallen away, but it should be required reading – and thinking (if this sounds so good, why doesn’t it work?)…

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/learning-from-the-great-depression/