How Is Critical Economic Theory Possible?

Gyoergy Markus (1934-2016) taught at the Budapest University of Sciences between 1957 and 1965. He was a research scholar at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Science from 1958 until 1973, when he was expelled for co-authoring this book. He left Hungary in 1977 and settled in Sydney, Australia, where he taught history of philosophy, Marxism, and Aesthetics. His book Culture, Science, Society was published in 2011 by Brill.



Janos Kis (born 1943) worked as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Science from 1967 until 1973, when he was expelled for co-authoring this book. As a leader of the Hungarian dissident movement, he participated in the 1989 Roundtable negotiations that prepared the ground for democratic transition. He taught political philosophy at Central European University from 1992 onwards. His book Politics as a Moral Problem was published in 2008 by CEU Press.



Gyoergy Bence (1941-2006) was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Science from 1966 until 1973, when he was expelled for co-authoring this book. In the 1970s, he was a leading member of the Hungarian dissident movement. From 1989 until his death, he worked as a professor of philosophy at the Budapest University of Science (ELTE), where he taught history of philosophy and political theory.



John Grumley (editor) is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Sydney University. He has published two monographs, more than fifty single-authored papers and five edited and co-edited books and journal issues with Pauline Johnson and Harriet Johnson. He also co-edits the Markus Archive with Harriet Johnson.