Cover
Contents
Preface
Part I. The Conversion of Surplus-Value into Profit and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit
Chapter 1. Cost-Price and profit
Notes
Chapter 2. The Rate of Profit
Chapter 3. The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value
Notes
Chapter 4. The Effect of the Turnover on the Rate of Profit
Chapter 5. Economy in the Employment of Constant Capital
I. In General
II. Savings In Labour Conditions At The Expense Of The Labourers.
III. Economy In The Generation And Transmission Of Power, And In Buildings
IV. Utilisation Of The Excretions Of Production
V. Economy Through Inventions
Notes
Chapter 6. The Effect of Price Fluctuation
I. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Materials, and their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit
Experiments in corpore vili
Notes
Chapter 7. Supplementary Remarks
Part II. Conversion of Profit into Average Profit
Chapter 8. Different Compositions of Capitals in Different Branches of Production and Resulting Differences in Rates of Profit
Notes
Chapter 9. Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices of Production
Chapter 10. Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit Through Competition. Market-Prices and Market-Values. Surplus-Profit
Notes
Chapter 11. Effects of General Wage Fluctuations on Prices of Production
Notes
Chapter 12. Supplementary Remarks
I. Causes Implying a Change in the Price of Production
II. Price of Production of Commodities of Average Composition
III. The Capitalist's Grounds for Compensating
Part III. The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall
Chapter 13. The Law As Such
Notes
Chapter 14. Counteracting Influences
I. INCREASING INTENSITY OF EXPLOITATION
II. DEPRESSION OF WAGES BELOW THE VALUE OF LABOUR-POWER
III. CHEAPENING OF ELEMENTS OF CONSTANT CAPITAL
IV. RELATIVE OVER-POPULATION
V. FOREIGN TRADE
VI. THE INCREASE OF STOCK CAPITAL
Notes
Chapter 15. Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law
I. General
II. Conflict Between Expansion Of Production And Production Of Surplus-Value
III. Excess Capital And Excess Population
IV. Supplementary Remarks
Notes
Part IV. Conversion of Commodity-Capital and Money-Capital into Commercial Capital and Money-Dealing Capital (Merchant's Capital)
Chapter 16. Commercial Capital
Notes
Chapter 17. Commercial Profit
Notes
Chapter 18. The Turnover of Merchant's Capital. Prices.
Notes
Chapter 19. Money-Dealing Capital
Notes
Chapter 20. Historical Facts about Merchant's Capital
Notes
Part V. Division of Profit into Interest and Profit of Enterprise. Interest-Bearing Capital
Chapter 21. Interest-Bearing Capital
Notes
Chapter 22. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest.
Notes
Chapter 23. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
Notes
Chapter 24. Externalization of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
Notes
Chapter 25. Credit and Fictitious Capital
Chapter 26. Accumulation of Money-Capital. Its Influence on the Interest Rate
Notes
Chapter 27. The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production
Notes
Chapter 28. Medium of Circulation and Capital; Views of Tooke and Fullarton
Notes
Chapter 29. Component Parts of Bank Capital
Notes
Chapter 30. Money-Capital and Real Capital. I.
Notes
Chapter 31. Money Capital and Real Capital. II.
1. TRANSFORMATION OF MONEY INTO LOAN CAPITAL
2. TRANSFORMATION OF CAPITAL OR REVENUE INTO MONEY THAT IS TRANSFORMED INTO LOAN CAPITAL
Chapter 32. Money Capital and Real Capital. III.
Notes
Chapter 33. The Medium of Circulation in the Credit System
Notes
Chapter 34. The Currency Principle and the English Bank Legislation of 1844
Chapter 35. Precious Metal and Rate of Exchange
I. MOVEMENT OF THE GOLD RESERVE
II. THE RATE OF EXCHANGE
RATE OF EXCHANGE WITH ASIA
ENGLAND'S BALANCE OF TRADE
Notes
Chapter 36. Pre-Capitalist Relationships
Notes
Part VI. Transformation of Surplus-Profit into Ground-Rent
Chapter 37. Introduction
Notes
Chapter 38. Differential Rent: General Remarks
Notes
Chapter 39. First Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent I)
Notes
Chapter 40. Second Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent II)
Chapter 41. Differential Rent II. First Case: Constant Price of Production
Chapter 42. Differential Rent II. Second Case: Falling Price of Production
I. Productivity of the additional investment of capital remains the same.
II. Decreasing rate of productivity of the additional capital.
III. Rising rate of productivity of the additional capital.
Notes
Chapter 43. Differential Rent II. Third Case: Rising Price of Production
Chapter 44. Differential Rent Also on the Worst Cultivated Soil
Chapter 45. Absolute Ground-Rent
Notes
Chapter 46. Building Site Rent. Rent in Mining. Price of Land
Notes
Chapter 47. Genesis of Capitalist Ground-Rent
I. Introductory Remarks
II. Labour rent
III. Rent In Kind
IV. Money-Rent
V. Métayage And Peasant Proprietorship Of Land Parcels
Notes
Part VII. Revenues and their Sources
Chapter 48. The Trinity Formula
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II
III
Notes
Chapter 49. Concerning the Analysis of the Process of Production
Notes
Chapter 50. Illusions Created By Competition
Notes
Chapter 51. Distribution Relations and Production Relations
Notes
Chapter 52. Classes
Notes
Supplement by Frederick Engels
Introduction
Law of Value and Rate of Profit
The Stock Exchange
Engels’ Edition of the Third Volume of Capital and Marx’s Original Manuscript
1. Extant Knowledge of Engels’ Editing
2. An Overview of Engels’ Textual Modifications
3. Interpretatory Handicaps Caused by Engels’ Edition
4. Conclusions
References
Footnotes