The Making of Marx’s ‘Capital’

Title Page......Page 1
Contents......Page 3
Author's Preface......Page 9
Translator's Note......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1. The Origins of the Rough Draft......Page 17
2. The Structure of Marx's Work......Page 26
3. Karl Marx and the Problem of Use-Value in Political Economy......Page 89
PART TWO: The First Formulation of Marx's Theory of Money......Page 113
4. Critique of the Labour-Money Theory......Page 115
5. 'Transition from Value to Money'......Page 125
6. The Functions of Money: A) Money as measure of value......Page 151
7. The Functions of Money: B) Money as medium of circulation......Page 158
8. The Functions of Money: C) 'Money as money'......Page 166
9. Introductory Remarks......Page 183
10. The Law of Appropriation in a Simple Commodity Economy......Page 191
11. The Transition to Capital......Page 199
12. Exchange between Capital and Labour-Power......Page 210
13. Labour Process and Valorisation Process......Page 219
14. Creation of Value and Preservation of Value in the Production Process......Page 228
15. The General Concept and Two Basic Forms of Surplus-Value......Page 236
16. Relative Surplus-Value and Productive Force......Page 246
17. The Methods of Production of Relative Surplus-Value......Page 251
18. 'Simultaneous Working Days'. The Capitalist Law of Population and the 'Industrial Reserve Army'......Page 261
19. The Reproduction Process and the Inversion of the Law of Appropriation......Page 272
20. Primitive Accumulation and the Accumulation of Capitals......Page 284
PART FOUR: The Section on the Circulation Process......Page 331
21. The Transition from the Production Process of Capital to the Circulation Process of Capital. Excursus on the Realisation Problem and the First Scheme of Reproduction......Page 333
22. Circulation Time and its Influence on the Determination of Value......Page 350
23. The Turnover of Capital and Turnover Time. The Continuity of Capitalist Production and the Division of Capital into Portions......Page 361
24. The Characteristic Forms of Fixed and Circulating (Fluid) Capital......Page 367
25. The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit. The General Rate of Profit......Page 383
26. The Law of the Falling Rate of Profit and the Tendency of Capitalism Toward Breakdown......Page 392
27. Fragments on Interest and Credit......Page 399
28. The Historical Limits of the Law of Value. Marx on the Subject of Socialist Society......Page 429
29. The Reification of the Economic Categories and the 'True Conception of the Process of Social Production'......Page 453
30. The Dispute Surrouding Marx's Schemes of Reproduction......Page 459
31. The Problem of Skilled Labour......Page 520
32. A Note on the Question of 'False Rationalisation'......Page 535
33. Joan Robinson's Critique of Marx......Page 544
34. Neo-Marxist Economics......Page 566
Bibliography......Page 587
Index......Page 593