Capital A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2 [Paperback]

The second volume of a political treatise that changed the world

A vital cornerstone to Marx’s overall theory of economics, the second volume ofCapitalconsiders in depth the nature of commodity and the market-place bourgeois society. This immensely powerful work argues that prosperity in a capitalist society inevitably holds within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

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Translator's Preface
Preface (Frederick Engels)
Preface to the Second Edition (Frederick Engels)
Book II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
Part One: The Metamorphoses of Capital and their CircuitChapter 1: The Circuit of Money Capital
1. First Stage. M-C
2. Second Stage. The Function of Productive Capital
3. Third Stage. C'-M'
4. The Circuit as a Whole
Chapter 2: The Circuit of Productive Capital
1. Simple Reproduction
2. Accumulation and Reproduction on an Expanded Scale
3. Accumulation of Money
4. The Reserve Fund
Chapter 3: The Circuit of Commodity Capital
Chapter 4: The Three Figures of the Circuit
(Natural Economy, Money Economy and Credit Economy)
(The Matching of Demand and Supply)
Chapter 5: Circulation Time
Chapter 6: The Costs of Circulation
1. Pure Circulation Costs
(a) Buying and Selling Time
(b) Book-keeping
(c) Money
2. Costs of Storage
(a) Stock Formation in General
(b) The Commodity Stock Proper
3. Transport Costs
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