The Culmination of Capital: Essays on Volume Three of Marx's Capital

by M. Campbell (Editor), A A Idowu (Editor)

Overview

Four philosophers and four economists consider each of the major themes of volume III of Marx's Capital --competition, the formation and development of the general rate of profit, the credit system and finance capital, rent, the Trinity Formula and the concept of class--in light of the two previous volumes. The collection is intended both for specialists in Marxian theory and for students of the history of economic thought and methodology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333964934
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/28/2001
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Martha Campbell is Assistant Professor at Potsdam, State University of New York.

Geert Reuten is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam

Table of Contents

	List of Figures
	Preface
	Notes on Contributors
1	Marx's Capital III, The Culmination of Capital General Introduction	1
2	Class, Capital and Crisis	16
3	Capital in General and Marx's Capital	42
4	Hostile Brothers: Marx's theory of the distribution of surplus-value in Volume III of Capital	65
5	'Transformation' and the Monetary Circuit Marx as a monetary theorist of production	102
6	Capital, Competition and Many Capitals	128
7	Surplus Profits from Innovation: A missing level in Capital III?	149
8	The Rate of Profit Cycle and the Opposition between Managerial and Finance Capital: A discussion of Capital III, Part Three to Five	174
9	The Credit System	212
10	Rent and Landed Property	228
11	The Illusion of the Economic: The Trinity Formula and the 'religion of everyday life'	246
	Subject Index	273
	Author Index	280