Marx's Economic Manuscript of 1864-1865

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-22350-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 100, 988 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1524 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Marx’s only full draft of Volume III of Capital was written in the Economic Manuscript of 1864—1865. The Volume III that we know was heavily edited by Engels. It has been a long-standing question in Marxian scholarship whether or not there are significant differences between Marx’s original manuscript and Engels’s edited version. Marx’s manuscript was published for the first time in German in 1992 in the Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe, Section II, Volume 4.2, but this important manuscript has not previously been translated into English. The publication of this English translation of Marx’s original manuscript is thus an important event in Marxian scholarship. English-speaking Marxist scholars can finally compare Engels’s Volume III with Marx’s original manuscript and evaluate for themselves the significance of the differences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moseley, Fred

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fowkes, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s Note
Introduction by Fred Moseley

Chapter One: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit
1. Surplus-Value and Profit
[2. Cost Price]
3. Economy in the Use of Constant Capital
4. The Effect of Changes in Raw Material Prices
5. Release and Tying-up of Capital, Depreciation and Appreciation, Revaluation and Devaluation of Capital
6. The Influence of Changes in Circulation Time, its Shortening or Lengthening (and also changes in the means of communication connected with this) on the Rate of Profit
7. Profit (as it appears to the bourgeois)

Chapter Two: The Transformation of Profit into Average Profit
1. Different Compositions of Capital in Different Branches of Production and the Resulting Variation in Rates of Profit
2. Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Profit) and Transformation of Commodity Values into Prices of Production
3. The Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit through Competition. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus Profit.
4. The Effects of a General Increase or Reduction (Fall) in Wages on the Prices of Production of the Different Commodities
5. The Capitalist's Grounds for Compensation Supplement on Prices of Production

Chapter Three: The Law of the Tendential Fall in the General Rate of Profit with the Advance of Capitalist Production

Chapter Four: The Transformation of Commodity Capital and Money Capital into Merchant's Capital (Commodity-Dealing Capital and Money-Dealing Capital)
1. Commodity-Dealing Capital (Commercial Profit)
2. Commercial Profit and its Characteristics
3. The Turnover of Mercantile Capital. Prices
4. Money-Dealing Capital
5. [no title]

Chapter Five: The Division of Profit into Interest and Profit of Enterprise. (Industrial or Commercial Profit). Interest-Bearing Capital
1. [Interest-Bearing Capital]
2. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. The Natural Rate of Interest
3. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
4. The Externalisation of Surplus-Value and the Capital Relation in General in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
5. Credit. Fictitious Capital
6. Pre-Bourgeois Relations

Chapter Six: The Transformation of Surplus Profit into Ground-Rent
(a) Introduction
(c) Absolute Ground-Rent
(b) Differential Rent
[The First Form of Differential Rent]
[The Second Form of Differential Rent]

Chapter Seven: The Revenues and their Sources
1. The Trinity Formula
2. [On the Analysis of the Production Process]
3. The Illusion Created by Competition
4. Relations of Production and Distribution
5. Classes

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Moseley is Professor of Economics at Mount Holyoke College and is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Marx’s theory, especially the logical method employed by Marx in Capital and the theory of the distribution of surplus-value in Volume III of Capital.