Towards An Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-63 (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

This book is the first complete commentary on Marx's "manuscripts" of 1861-63, works that guide our understanding of fundamental concepts such as 'surplus-value' and 'production price'.

Part I The Central Notebooks of "Chapter III": The Production Process of Capital 1. Money becomes capital: from exteriority to totality 1.1 New syllogism: D-M-D 1.2 Face-to-face encounter of the owner of money and the owner of labour. Creative exteriority 1.3 Exchange. The labour and the valorization process 1.4 The two component parts of capital 2. Absolute surplus-value 2.1 Surplus value in general and social classes 2.2 Absolute surplus value 2.3 The nature of surplus value and the "rate of exploitation" 3. Relative surplus value 3.1 The "essence" of relative surplus value 3.2 The general form of subsumption: cooperation 3.3 The second mode of subsumption: the "social" division of "social" labour 3.4 The third mode of subsumption: machinery in the factory Part II Critical Confrontation of the Entire Categorical System 4. Critical confrontation with Steuart and the physiocrats 4.1 The case of Steuart 4.2 Confrontation with the Physiocrats 4.3 Other minor contradictions 5. Adam Smith's perplexities 5.1 Confusions regarding the exchange of labour for capital 5.2 Identification of surplus value and profit 5.3 The question of reproduction 6. Productive labour 6.1 Productive labour, capital and commodities 6.2 Polemics regarding productive labour 6.3 Toward the end of the polemic 6.4 Quesnay's Tableau Economique 7. The theory of rent 7.1 Formulation of a theory of rent through a critical confrontation with Rodbertus 7.2 Methodological digression 7.3 The "Ricardian law" and its history 7.4 "Cost price" in Ricardo and Smith 7.5 Rent in Ricardo and Smith 7.6 The "tables on rent" 8. Surplus value, profit, accumulation and crisis in Ricardo 8.1 Surplus value and profir 8.2 The rate of profit 8.3 Accumulation and reproduction 8.4 The "possibility" and the "existence" of crisis 9. The fetishism of vulgar and apologetic economics 9.1 Surplus value in Malthus 9.2 The disintegration of the Ricardian school 9.3 Critical reactions 9.4 The fetishism of revenue: a sort of conclusion of the "Theories of surplus value" Part III New Discoveries 10. Towards "Chapter II" and "Chapter III" 10.1 Mercantile capital 10.2 Capital and profit: towards "Chapter III" 10.3 The reflux of money in capitalist reproduction 10.4 End of "theories of surplus value" 10.5 New plans of the future work 11. New precisions for "Chapter I" 11.1 Relative surplus value: revolution of the "mode of production" or "technological truth" 11.2 Relationship among the types of surplus value. formal and real subsumption. Productive labour and fetishism 11.3 Accumulation or the reconversion of surplus value into capital 11.4 Critical-historical readings from Petty Part IV The New Transition 12. The Manuscripts of 1861-63 and the philosophy of liberation 12.1 What is "science" for Marx? 12.2 "Critique" from the exteriority of living-labor 12.3 Passage to the essence or the "developme