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Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 28

Volume 28

Karl Marx Economic Works
1857-1861

Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58
(First Version of Capital)

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Bastiat and Carey	5
Avantpropos	5
XIV. Des Sataires	11
Introduction	17
I. Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange (Circulation)	17
1. Production	17
2. The General Relation of Production to Distribution, Exchange and Consumption	26
(a) [Consumption and Production]	27
(b) [Distribution and Production]	32
(c) Lastly, Exchange and Circulation	36
3. The Method of Political Economy	37
4. Production. Means of Production and Relations of Production. Relations of Production and Conditions of Communication. Forms of the State and of Consciousness in Relation to the Relations of Production and of Commerce. Legal Relations. Family Relations	45
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft of 1857-58) [First Instalment]	49
II. Chapter on Money	51
Alfred Darimon, De la Reforme des Banques, Paris, 1856	51
[The Origin and Essence of Money]	78
[The Precious Metals as Expression of the Money Relationship]	110
(a) Gold and Silver in Comparison with the Other Metals	111
(b) Fluctuations in the Value Ratio of the Different Metals	115
[Money Circulation]	121
(a) [Money as Measure of Value]	123
(b) [Money as a Means of Circulation]	128
(c) Money as Material Representative of Wealth. (Accumulation of money. But first we have still to consider money as the general material of contracts, etc.)	138
[III. Chapter on Capital]	171
[Section One] [The Process of Production of Capital]	171
Chapter on Money as Capital	171
[Transformation of Money into Capital]	171
1. Circulation and Exchange Value Deriving from Circulation as a Prerequisite of Capital	190
2. Exchange Value Emerging from Circulation Becomes Its Premiss, Maintains Itself in It and Multiplies Itself by Means of Labour	194
Exchange between Capital and Labour	204
[Labour Process and Process of Valorisation]	230
[Absolute and Relative Surplus Value]	267
[Surplus Value and Profit]	291
[Section Two] [Circulation Process of Capital]	329
[Reproduction and Accumulation of Capital]	329
[Forms Preceding Capitalist Production]	399
[Circuit and Turnover of Capital]	439
[Theories of Surplus Value and Profit]	473
Notes and Indexes
Notes	541
Name Index	562
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature	568
Index of Periodicals	576
Subject Index	577
Illustrations
Back of the cover and page 1 of Notebook M containing the Introduction	20-21
Cover of Notebook VII of the manuscript Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy	53
Page 3 of Notebook IV of Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy	303
Page 24 of Notebook IV of Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy	347

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