Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Fifth Edition

1 History and Method

2. Commodity Production

3. Capital and Exploitation

4 The Circuit of Industrial Capital

5. Economic Reproduction

6. Accumulation of Capital

7. Capitalism and Crisis

8. The Compositions of Capital

9. The Falling Rate of Profit

10. The So-Called Transformation Problem

Merchant’s Capital

11 Banking Capital and the Theory of Interest

12 Marx’s Theory of Agricultural Rent

13 Marxism and the Twenty-First Century

14 Conclusion: Financialisation, Neoliberalism and the Crisis

References

Index

About the Author

Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of the critical texts, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics (Pluto, 2016), co-author of Marx's 'Capital' (Pluto, 2016) and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State (Pluto, 2013). He was awarded both the Deutscher and Myrdal Prizes in 2009. Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy (Pluto, 2017), and co-author of Marx's 'Capital' (Pluto, 2016), Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader (Pluto, 2005) and the Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics (Elgar, 2012).

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