Preface to Marx-Engels Collected Works Volume (37)
Prefaces
Preface by Engels (1894)
Ch. 1: Cost Price and Profit
Chapter 1. Cost-Price and profit
Ch. 2: The Rate of Profit
Ch. 3: The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus Value
Ch. 4: The Effect of the Turnover on the Rate of Profit
Ch. 5: Economy in the Employment of Constant Capital
I. In General
II. Savings In Labour Conditions At The Expense Of The Labourers.
III. Economy In The Generation And Transmission Of Power, And In Buildings
IV. Utilisation Of The Excretions Of Production
V. Economy Through Inventions
Ch. 6: The Effect of Price Fluctuations
I. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Materials, and their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit
II. Appreciation, depreciation, release and tie-up of capital
III. General illustration. The cotton crisis of 1861-65
Preliminary History. 1845-60
1861-64. American Civil War. Cotton Famine. The Greatest Example of an Interruption in the Production Process through Scarcity and Dearness of Raw Material
Experiments in corpore vili
Ch. 7: Supplementary Remarks
Ch. 8: Different Compositions of Capitals in Different Branches of Production and Resulting Differences in Rates of Profit
Ch. 9: Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices of Production
Ch. 10: Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit Through Competition. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus Profit
Ch. 11: Effects of General Wage Fluctuations on Prices of Production
Ch. 12: Supplementary Remarks
I. Causes Implying a Change in the Price of Production
II. Price of Production of Commodities of Average Composition
III. The Capitalist's Grounds for Compensating
Ch. 13: The Law as Such
Ch. 14: Counteracting Influences
I. Increasing intensity of exploitation
II. Depression of wages below the value of labour-power
III. Cheapening of elements of constant capital
IV. Relative over-population
V. Foreign trade
VI. The increase of stock capital
Ch. 15: Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law
I. General
II. Conflict Between Expansion Of Production And Production Of Surplus-Value
III. Excess Capital And Excess Population
IV. Supplementary Remarks
Ch. 16: Commercial Capital
Ch. 17: Commercial Profit
Ch. 18: The Turnover of Merchant's Capital. Prices
Ch. 19: Money-Dealing Capital
Ch. 20: Historical Facts About Merchant's Capital
Ch. 21: Interest-Bearing Capital
Ch. 22: Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. "Natural" Rate of Interest
Ch. 23: Interest and Profit of Enterprise
Ch. 24: Externalisation of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
Ch. 25: Credit and Fictitious Capital
Ch. 26: Accumulation of Money Capital. Its Influence on the Interest Rate
Ch. 27: The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production
Ch. 28: Medium of Circulation and Capital; Views of Tooke and Fullarton
Ch. 29: Component Parts of Bank Capital
Ch. 30: Money Capital and Real Capital. I
Ch. 31: Money Capital and Real Capital. II (Continued)
1. Transformation of money into loan capital
2. Transformation of capital or revenue into money that is transformed into loan capital
Ch. 32: Money Capital and Real Capital. III (Concluded)
Ch. 33: The Medium of Circulation in the Credit System
Ch. 34: The Currency Principle and the English Bank Legislation of 1844
Ch. 35: Precious Metal and Rate of Exchange
I. Movement of the gold reserve
II. The rate of exchange
Rate of exchange with asia
England's balance of trade
Ch. 36: Precapitalist Relationships
Interest in the Middle ages
Advantages derived by the church from the prohibition of interest
Ch. 37: Introduction
Ch. 38: Differential Rent: General Remarks
Ch. 39: First Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent I)
Ch. 40: Second Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent II)
Ch. 41: Differential Rent II First Case: Constant Price of Production
Ch. 42: Differential Rent II, Second Case: Failing Price of Production
I. Productivity of the additional investment of capital remains the same.
II. Decreasing rate of productivity of the additional capital.
III. Rising rate of productivity of the additional capital.
Ch. 43: Differential Rent II Third Case: Rising Price of Production
Ch. 44: Differential Rent Also on the Worst Cultivated Soil
Ch. 45: Absolute Ground Rent
Ch. 46: Building Site Rent. Rent in Mining. Price of Land
Ch. 47: Genesis of Capitalist Ground Rent
I. Introductory Remarks
II. Labour rent
III. Rent In Kind
IV. Money-Rent
V. Métayage And Peasant Proprietorship Of Land Parcels
Ch. 48: The Trinity Formula
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Ch. 49: Concerning the Analysis of the Process of Production
Ch. 50: Illusions Created by Competition
Ch. 51: Distribution Relations and Production Relations
Ch. 52: Classes
Supplement by Frederick Engels
Introduction
Law of Value and Rate of Profit
The Stock Exchange