ABSTRACT
The recurrence of debates concerning the work of an author, the lively controversies it raises among opponents and followers and the redirection of its interpretations as time goes by is a sign of its continuing fascination and complexity. The work of Karl Marx is no exception to the rule, all the more so as Marx wrote a lot during his lifetime, only parts of which have been published every once in a while during more than one century after his death in 1883. Michael White focuses on one author, Philip Henry Wicksteed, and deals with his developments in what was called the Jevonsian critique of Marx: how Wicksteed was led to criticise Marx while defending Henry George’s views, and why this was done in a questionable way, based on some misreading of Jevons’s analysis.
