Hans-Georg Backhaus

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Hans-Georg Backhaus (born 1929) is a German Marxian economist and philosopher. He is considered one of the most important German theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value. He began a long-term cooperation with Helmut Reichelt already from his years of university studies.

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