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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 96. Chapters: Alfred W. Crosby, Andre Gunder Frank, Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens, Arjun Appadurai, Beverly J. Silver, Calestous Juma, Charles C. Mann, David Harvey (geographer), David Held, David Rothkopf, Francis Fukuyama, Fredric Jameson, Giovanni Arrighi, Ian Bremmer, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jagdish Bhagwati, Jean Baudrillard, Jeffrey Sachs, John Cavanagh (economist), John Harry Dunning, John Urry (sociologist), Joseph Stiglitz, Karl Marx, Kees van der Pijl, Manuel Castells, Martin Albrow, Mike Featherstone, Nouriel Roubini, Pankaj Ghemawat, Paul Hirst, Paul Krugman, Perry Anderson, Richard Grove, Ronald Inglehart, Samir Amin, Samuel P. Huntington, Saskia Sassen, Takis Fotopoulos, Thomas Friedman, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, Ulrich Beck, William I. Robinson, Zygmunt Bauman. Excerpt: Karl Heinrich Marx (Berlin German pronunciation: , 5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the establishment of the social sciences and the development of the socialist movement. He is also considered one of the greatest economists in history. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867-1894). He often worked closely with his friend and fellow revolutionary socialist, Friedrich Engels. Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier (formerly in Prussian Rhineland, now called Rhineland-Palatinate), Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. In 1836 he became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, marrying her in 1843. After his studies, he wrote for a radical newspaper in Cologne, and began to work out his theory of dialectical materialism. Moving to Paris in 1843, he began writing for other radical newspapers. He met Engels in Paris, and the two men worked together on a series of books. Exiled to Brussels, he became a leading figure of the Communist League, before moving back to Cologne, where he founded his own newspaper. In 1849 he was exiled again and moved to London together with his wife and children. In London, where the family was reduced to poverty, Marx continued writing and formulating his theories about the nature of society and how he believed it could be improved, and also campaigned for socialism-he became a significant figure in the International Workingmen's Association. Marx's theories about society, economics and politics-collectively known as Marxism-hold that all societies progress through the dialectic of class struggle: a conflict between an ownership class which controls production and a lower class which produces the labour for goods. He
