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Book SynopsisThe forgotten second volume of Capital, Marx''s world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx''s theories.
Table of ContentsCapital Volume 2 Introduction
Translator's Preface
Preface (Frederick Engels)
Preface to the Second Edition (Frederick Engels)
Book II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
Part One: The Metamorphoses of Capital and their Circuit
Chapter 1: The Circuit of Money Capital1. First Stage. M-C
2. Second Stage. The Function of Productive Capital
3. Third Stage. C'-M'
4. The Circuit as a Whole
Chapter 2: The Circuit of Productive Capital1. Simple Reproduction
2. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Expanded Scale
3. Accumulation of Money
4. The Reserve Fund
Chapter 3: The Circuit of Commodity CapitalChapter 4: The Three Figures of the Circuit(Natural Economy, Money Economy and Credit Economy)
(The Matching of Demand and Supply)
Chapter 5: Circulation TimeChapter 6: The Costs of Circulation1. Pure Circulation Costs
(a) Buying and Selling Time
(b) Book-keeping
(c) Money
2. Costs of Storage
(a) Stock Formation in General
(b) The Commodity Stock Proper
3. Transport Costs
Part Two: The Turnover of Capital
Chapter 7: Turnover Time and Number of TurnoversChapter 8: Fixed Capital and Circulating Capital1. The Formal Distinctions
2. Components, Replacement, Repairs and Accumulation of the Fixed Capital
Chapter 9: The Overall Turnover of the Capital Advanced. Turnover CyclesChapter 10: Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. The Physiocrats and Adam SmithChapter 11: Theories of Fixed and Circulating Capital. RicardoChapter 12: The Working PeriodChapter 13: Production TimeChapter 14: Circulation TimeChapter 15: Effect of Circulation Time on the Magnitude of the Capital Advanced1. Working Period and Circulation Period Equal
2. Working Period Longer than Circulation Period
3. Working Period Shorter than Circulation Period
4. Results
5. Effect of Changes in Price
Chapter 16: The Turnover of Variable Capital1. The Annual Rate of Surplus-Value
2. The Turnover of an Individual Variable Capital
3. The Turnover of Variable Capital Considered from the Social Point of View
Chapter 17: The Circulation of Surplus-Value1. Simple Reproduction
2. Accumulation and Expanded Reproduction
Part Three: The Reproduction and Circulation of the Total Social Capital
Chapter 18: Introduction1. The Object of the Inquiry
2. The Role of Money Capital
Chapter 19: Former Presentations of the Subject1. The Physiocrats
2. Adam Smith
(a) Smith's General Perspectives
(b) Smith's Resolution of Exchange-Value into v+s
(c) The Constant Capital Component
(d) Capital and Revenue in Adam Smith
(e) Summary
3. Later Writers
Chapter 20: Simple Reproduction1. Formulation of the Problem
2. The Two Departments of Social Production
3. Exchange Between the Two Departments: I against II
4. Exchange Within Department II. Necessary Means of Subsistence and Luxury Items
5. The Mediation of the Exchanges by Monetary Circulation
6. The Constant Capital in Department I
7. Variable Capital and Surplus-Value in the Two Departments
8. The Constant Capital in Both Departments
9. A Look Back at Adam Smith, Storch and Ramsay
10. Capital and Revenue: Variable Capital and Wages
11. Replacement of the Fixed Capital
(a) Replacement of the Depreciation Component in the Money Form
(b) Replacement of the Fixed Capital in Kind
(c) Results
12. The Reproduction of the Money Material
13. Destutt de Tracy's Theory of Reproduction
Chapter 21: Accumulation and Reproduction on an Expanded Scale1. Accumulation in Department I
(a) Hoard Formation
(b) The Additional Constant Capital
(c) The Additional Variable Capital
2. Accumulation in Department II
3. Schematic Presentation of Accumulation
(a) First Example
(b) Second Example
(c) The Exchange of II in the Case of Accumulation
4. Supplementary Remarks
Quotations in Languages Other than English and German
Index of Authorities Quoted
General Index
Note on Previous Editions of the Works of Marx and Engels
Chronology of Works by Marx and Engels
