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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480041203321

Autore

Heinrich Michael <1957->

Titolo

An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital [[electronic resource] /] / by Michael Heinrich ; translated by Alexander Locascio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Monthly Review Press, c2012

ISBN

1-58367-290-7

1-58367-291-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

335.4/1

335.41

335.412

Soggetti

Marxian economics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the German.

"Originally published as Kritik der politischen Ökonomie: Eine Einführung by Schmetterling Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, c2004, by Schmetterling Verlag GmbH."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Capitalism and Marxism; 2. The Object of Critique in the Critique of Political Economy; 3. Value, Labor, Money; 4. Capital, Surplus Value, and Exploitation; 5. The Capitalist Process of Production; 6. The Circulation of Capital; 7. Profit, Average Profit, and the "Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall"; 8. Interest, Credit, and "Fictitious Capital"; 9. Crisis; 10. The Fetishism of Social Relations in Bourgeois Society; 11. State and Capital; 12. Communism-Society beyond the Commodity, Money, and the State; Bibliography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F

GI; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a surge in sales of Karl Marx's  Capital . Although mainstream economists and commentators once dismissed Marx's work as outmoded and flawed, some are begrudgingly acknowledging an analysis that sees capitalism as inherently unstable. And of course, there are those, like Michael Heinrich, who have seen



the value of Marx all along, and are in a unique position to explain the intricacies of Marx's thought. Heinrich's modern interpretation of  Capital  is now available to English-speaking readers for