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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

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Philosophy & Psychology

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx and Nahum Isaac Stone

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Before Capital there was this 1859 study, where Karl Marx first worked out his analysis of commodities and money in print. The chapters on value, circulation, and the theories that came before him lay the groundwork for everything that followed, and the preface states his famous method in a few packed pages. Watch a system being assembled.

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22 chapters

  1. 1A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
  2. 2TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
  3. 3AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5BOOK I. Capital in general.
  6. 6CHAPTER I. COMMODITIES.
  7. 7NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE THEORY OF COMMODITIES.
  8. 8CHAPTER II.
  9. 9MONEY OR SIMPLE CIRCULATION.
  10. 101. THE MEASURE OF VALUE.
  11. 11B. THEORIES OF THE UNIT OF MEASURE OF MONEY.
  12. 122. THE MEDIUM OF CIRCULATION.
  13. 133. MONEY.
  14. 144. THE PRECIOUS METALS.
  15. 15C. THEORIES OF THE MEDIUM OF CIRCULATION AND OF MONEY.
  16. 16Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy.156
  17. 171. PRODUCTION IN GENERAL.
  18. 182. THE GENERAL RELATION OF PRODUCTION TO DISTRIBUTION, EXCHANGE, AND CONSUMPTION.

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