Marx’s Capital
Marx’s Capital by Ben Fine, published by Pluto Press in 2016, is a comprehensive exploration of Karl Marx’s economic theories and methodologies. This sixth edition, consisting of 192 pages, delves into the intricacies of Marx’s philosophy, commodity production, and the dynamics of capital and exploitation. The book presents a structured analysis of key concepts such as the labour theory of value, surplus value, and the circuit of industrial capital, providing readers with a detailed understanding of Marx’s critique of political economy.
In this edition, readers will find a thorough examination of topics including economic reproduction, capital accumulation, and the relationship between capitalism and crisis. Fine’s work engages with Marx’s theories on the falling rate of profit and the transformation problem, offering insights into the historical and theoretical contexts of these ideas. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those interested in economics, political science, and the philosophical underpinnings of Marxist thought.
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Cover — Title Page — Copyright — Contents — Acknowledgements — Preface to the Sixth Edition — 1 History and Method — Marx’s Philosophy — Marx’s Method — Marx’s Economics — Issues and Further Reading — 2 Commodity Production — The Labour Theory of Value — Labour and Labour Power — The Fetishism of Commodities — Issues and Further Reading — 3 Capital and Exploitation — Exchange — Capital — Surplus Value and Exploitation — Absolute and Relative Surplus Value — Machinery and Technical Change — Productive and Unproductive Labour — Issues and Further Reading — 4 The Circuit of Industrial Capital — The Money Circuit of Capital — The Circuit as a Whole — Issues and Further Reading — 5 Economic Reproduction — Simple Reproduction — Expanded Reproduction — Social Reproduction — Issues and Further Reading — 6 Accumulation of Capital — Primitive Accumulation — The Development of Capitalist Production — Competition and Capital Accumulation — Issues and Further Reading — 7 Capitalism and Crisis — Marx’s Theory of Accumulation and Crisis — Possibilities of Crisis — Accumulation, Crisis and the Development of the Proletariat — Issues and Further Reading — 8 The Compositions of Capital — The Technical Composition of Capital — The Organic and Value Compositions — Issues and Further Reading — 9 The Falling Rate of Profit — Summary of the Argument — The Law as Such and the Counteracting Tendencies — The Internal Contradictions of the Law — The Empirical Implications of the Law — LTRPF and Crisis Theory — A Response to Okishio — Issues and Further Reading — 10 The So-called Transformation Problem — From Values to Prices of Production — Marx’s Transformation and Its Critics — Issues and Further Reading — 11 Merchant’s Capital — Marx’s Category of Merchant’s Capital — Modified Prices of Production
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