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Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 29

Volume 29

Karl Marx Economic Works
1857-1861

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

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Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft of 1857-58) [Second Instalment]	5
[III. Chapter on Capital]	7
[Section Two. Circulation Process of Capital. Conclusion]	7
[Fixed and Circulating Capital]	7
[Fixed Capital and the Development of the Productive Forces of Society]	80
[Circulation and Reproduction of Fixed and Circulating Capital]	99
Section Three. Capital as Bearing Fruit. Interest. Profit. (Production Costs, etc.)	129
[Addenda to the Chapters on Money and on Capital]	162
[Money as Measure of Values]	171
[Money as Means of Circulation and as Independent Value]	186
[Machinery and Profit]	198
[Alienation]	209
[Varia]	211
I. Value	252
Gold-Weighing Machines	254
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Part One	257
Preface	261
Book One. On Capital	267
Section One. Capital in General	269
Chapter One. The Commodity	269
A. Historical Notes on the Analysis of Commodities	292
Chapter Two. Money or Simple Circulation	303
1. Measure of Value	303
B. Theories of the Standard of Money	314
2. Medium of Exchange	323
a. The Metamorphosis of Commodities	324
b. The Circulation of Money	334
c. Coins. Tokens of Value	342
3. Money	356
a. Hoarding	359
b. Means of Payment	370
c. World Money	381
4. The Precious Metals	385
C. Theories of the Medium of Circulation and of Money	389
From the Preparatory Materials
Index to the 7 Notebooks	421
[First Draft]	421
I) Value	421
II) Money	421
III) Capital in General	423
[Second Draft]	423
The Original Text of the Second and the Beginning of the Third
Chapter of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	430
[Chapter Two. Money]	430
[2. Money as Means of Payment]	430
3. Money as International Means of Payment and Purchase, as World Coin	435
4. The Precious Metals as Vehicles of the Money Relationship	452
5. The Manifestation of the Law of Appropriation in the Simple Circulation	461
6. Transition to Capital	478
Chapter Three. Capital	501
A) The Process of Production of Capital	501
1. The Transformation of Money into Capital	501
[Additional Notes]	508
Invariable Value of Money	508
Money as Money (World Coin, etc.)	508
Draft Plan of the Chapter on Capital	511
I. The Process of Production of Capital	511
II. Circulation Process of Capital	514
III. Capital and Profit	516
[IV.] Varia	516
References to My Own Notebooks	518
Notes and Indexes
Notes	535
Name Index	551
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature	563
Index of Periodicals	577
Subject Index	579
Illustrations
Page 32 of Notebook VI with the Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy	43
Title page of the first edition of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	259
Page 13 of Notebook B with a fragment of the original text of the second chapter of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	453
Page 28 of Notebook B with References to My Own Notebooks	519

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