A Guide to Marxian Political Economy

Offers readers a solid theoretical understanding of the systematic structure of capitalism

Provides an introduction to all three volumes of Marx's Capital

Includes numerous diagrams to illustrate essential concepts of political economy

Autorentext
Teinosuke Otani, Professor Emeritus of economics at Hose University, Tokyo, is the author of Marx's Theory of Association and Marx's theory of Interest-bearing Capital (in Japanese). He is also a member of the editorial committee of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). He was President of the Japan Society of Political Economy, a Japanese scholarly organization that boasts of just under 1,000 members.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Conception of Society Based Upon Labour and the Tasks of Political Economy.- Part I: The Process of Production of Capital: Commodity and Money.- Capital and Surplus-Value.- Exentsion and Shortening of Working Day.- Methods for the Development of Productive Power.- Capitalist Relations of Production and the Alienation of Labour.- Wages.- Reproduction of Capital.- Accumulation of Capital.- Accumulation of Capital and Relative Surplus Population.- Primitive Accumulation.- Part II: The Process of the Circulation of Capital: The Circuit of Capital.- Turnover of Capital.- Reproduction and Circulation of the Total Social Capital.- Part III: Capital and Profit.- Average Rate of Profit and Production Price.- Law of the Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit.- Commercial Capital and Commercial Profit.- Interest-Bearing Capital and Interest.- Landed Property and Ground-Rent.- Revenue Forms and Classes.- Concluding Remarks: Arrival Point of Our Investigation and Remaining Tasks.-Name Index.- Subject Index.