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Suzanne de Brunhoff has been that rare Marxian economist who contributed to the theoretical development of a critical political economy - rescuing forgotten dimensions of Capital and presenting novel perspective to better understand contemporary capitalism - never abandoning the core of the critique of political economy, and always thinking in terms of a revolutionary policy of the working class.  This paper’s intention is to map a first survey of her intellectual biography, focusing on some key moments: (i) her early analysis of Marx on money (and hence her criticism of aspects of Neoricardianism and of monetary heterodoxy); (ii) her dissection of the economic role of the State in the management of the special commodities money and labour power (and hence her confrontation with Italian operaismo); (iii) her inquiry about the transformation of the international economic arena (and hence her criticism of the globalisation approach); (iv) her later writings on fictitious capital, the Tobin tax, and the single currency (and hence her confrontation and dialogue with Keynes).

Marx; Money; de Brunhoff