‘Theory of Crisis’ by Uno Kozo reviewed by Fabian van Onzen (opens in new tab)

The work of Japanese Marxist Uno Kozo has mostly been known through secondary works such as Makoto Itoh’s Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan. Although Uno’s Principles of Political Economy was translated into English in the eighties, it has long been out of print and is difficult to attain. Fortunately, Uno scholar Ken Kawashima has recently published a translation of his Theory of Crisis, a landmark work on Marxist crisis theory and a great introduction to the Uno school ...