​Patrick Bond is a political economist and professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He spent more than two decades teaching at the Wits University School of Governance in Johannesburg and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society in Durban. During the late 1980s he pursued doctoral studies in economic geography at Johns Hopkins University, while learning politics in the anti-apartheid, labour, student and community movements. In 1994 and 1996, he worked in the Reconstruction and Development Ministry in President Nelson Mandela’s office, drafting the democratic government’s first White Paper and a dozen other major policy documents. He appears more than 100 times a year on South African and international broadcast media, and usually gives more than 50 guest lectures annually.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Political Economy Traditions in South Africa.- 3 Das Kapital in South Africa.- 4 Contradictions in Hilferding’s Finance Capital.- 5 Foundations of Marxist Financial Geography.- 6 Degrowth, Devaluation and Uneven Development from North to South.- 7 Capital Volume.- 8 Luxemburg’s Contemporary Resonances in South Africa.- 9 Transforming Macroeconomic Policies.