ABSTRACT
I have likewise long been intrigued by Marx's cavalier treatment of Von Thiinen. The latter, Marx concedes, asked the 'right question': 'how has the labourer been able to pass from being master of capital-as its creator - to being its slave?' But his answer is, in Marx's opinion, 'simply childish' (Marx 1967: 621). What, then, are the grounds for such an easy dismissal?
