"[3] Writing in Nova Economia, professor Eduardo Maldonado Filho writes, "The structure of the book, and the manner and accuracy with which the controversial arguments have been presented by the author, allow the interested reader, even one not versed in Marxist economics or mathematics, to understand the issues in the controversy and, not less important, to form his/her own opinion about the topics that have been debated.

In my opinion, Kliman’s book constitutes the most important contribution to political economy of the last three decades and, as such, it is highly recommended for all those interested in Marx’s work.

"[4] Writing in Review of Radical Political Economics, professor Ajit Sinha argued for the existence of a "major weakness of this book: a lack of rigor in reasoning".

In this paper, he also proposes measures to halt and reverse this process, namely (1) "the field needs to greatly reduce its dependence on the resources of academia.

Intellectual autonomous zones need to be created"; (2) "cooperative behavior and attitudes, not uncooperative ones, need to be fostered and rewarded"; (3) "efforts to solve theoretical problems, not efforts to create and perpetuate them, should be fostered and rewarded"; (4) "run-of-the-mill anomalies such as the 'transformation problem' should not be allowed to become sources of internal crisis"; and (5) "people outside the field need to appreciate how profoundly the myth of Marx’s internal inconsistencies has damaged it.