Essays on Marxs Capital: Summaries, Appreciations and Reconstructions (Historical Materialism Book, 309)

This book presents 21 previously published essays spanning 1991–2019 on the three volumes of Marx’s Capital – mostly in the form of a summary (a Volume or its Parts or Chapters) followed by an appreciation and (when required) a reconstruction. ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎About the Author ‎Abstracts of all chapters ‎Part A. General outlines of, and comments on, the three volumes of Marx’s Capital ‎Chapter 1. Karl Marx: his work and the major changes in its interpretation ‎Chapter 2. Marx’s conceptualisation of value in Capital ‎Chapter 3. Dialectical Method ‎Chapter 4. Marx’s Method ‎Chapter 5. The interconnection of Systematic Dialectics and Historical Materialism ‎Part B. Capital i – outlines and comments ‎Chapter 6. The difficult labour of a theory of social value; metaphors and systematic dialectics at the beginning of Marx’s Capital ‎Chapter 7. Money as constituent of value; the ideal introversive substance and the ideal extroversive form of value in Marx’s Capital ‎Chapter 8. Productive force and the degree of intensity of labour; Marx’s concepts and formalisations in the middle part of Capital i ‎Chapter 9. The inner mechanism of the accumulation of capital: the acceleration triple; a methodological appraisal of ‘Part Seven’ of Marx’s Capital i ‎Part C. Capital ii – outlines and comments ‎Chapter 10. Marx’s Capital ii, The circulation of capital – general introduction ‎Chapter 11. The status of Marx’s reproduction schemes; conventional or dialectical logic? ‎Chapter 12. Some notes on Marx’s macroeconomics avant la lettre ‎Part D. Capital iii – outlines and comments ‎Chapter 13. Marx’s Capital iii, the culmination of capital; Introduction ‎Chapter 14. Marx’s rate of profit transformation: methodological, theoretical and philological obstacles – an appraisal based on the text of Capital iii and manuscripts of 1864–65, 1875 and 1878 ‎Chapter 15. The productive powers of labour and the redundant transformation to prices of production: a Marx-immanent critique and reconstruction ‎Chapter 16. The notion of tendency in Marx’s 1894 law of profit ‎Chapter 17. ‘Zirkel vicieux’ or trend fall? – the course of the profit rate in Marx’s Capital iii ‎Chapter 18. Accumulation of capital and the foundation of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall ‎Chapter 19. From the ‘fall of the rate of profit’ in the Grundrisse to the cyclical development of the profit rate in Capital ‎Chapter 20. Destructive creativity; institutional arrangements of banking and the logic of capitalist technical change ‎Chapter 21. The rate of profit cycle and the opposition between Managerial and Finance Capital; a discussion of Capital iii Parts Three to Five ‎Appendix A. List of the author’s academic publications on Marx’s Capital ‎Appendix B. List of the author’s academic publications on, or within, the post-Marx Marxian paradigm ‎Appendix C. Authored and edited books ‎Index of names ‎Index of subjects In this book Geert Reuten presents 21 of his previously published essays on the three volumes Marx's Capital , dating from 1991-2019. The essays largely take the form of a summary of Marx's text (a Volume or its Parts or Chapters) followed by an appreciation and (when required) a reconstruction. The book thus offers an overview of each of the three volumes of Capital , including their interconnection, as well as a focus on specific Parts of Capital . Throughout the general overviews and more focused analyses, Reuten emphasises Marx's systematic-dialectical method and his monetary value-form analysis