AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 1 consider the system of bourgeois economy in the fol~ Jowing order: Capital, klnded property, wage labor; ltate, foreign trade .. world mat·ket. Under the first three heads I examine the conditions of the economic existence of the three great clas8Cs, which make up modern bourgeois eociety j the connection of the three remaining heads is self evident. The 1Irst part of the first book, treating of cllpital, con~ists of the following chapters: 1. Commodity; 2. Money, or simple circulation; 3. C!lpital ill general. trhc first. two chaplers form Ule contents of the present work. 'l'he entire material lies before me in the form or monographs, written at long intervals not for publication, but. for the purpose of l'learing up those questions TO myself, and their sy~tematic pln.borntion on the plan outJincd above will depend upon circumstances. J omit. a general introduction which I had prepared, :1S on second thought Ilny ~mtieipntion of results that
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CONTENTS; "'011:; : IIthOTCI Pr~f,,<:c ); BOOK 1 CAIJITAL IN GE~ERAL; Chapte~' I Commollities 19-; A Notes on the Hi!ltory of th~ Theory of Value !Xi; Chopte II Money or Simple Circulation • • • • • 73·; 1 The Measure of Value • 7",; -"'; 'Il Theories of the Unit of Measure of ~loney 91; 2 The Medium of CiTcuhltion 107; 11 The )letamorphosis of Commodities 108; h The Circulation of Money 125; Co Coin ancl Symbol!! of Vnluc •• 138; 3 ltioney • 162; 3 Hoarding 166; b Means oC Payment • • 185'; c World Money 201; 4 The :rreciou~ Jletal~ 208; - C 'Thcori~ of lhc MNlium of Circulation and of; Money 215; , ppendix Introcluction to the Criti'lue of Political; lndelt; Economy 264; 1 Production in General 260>; 2 The General Rclntioll of Production to Dis·; tribution, Exchange, and Consumption 274; !J 'The Method of Political E
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CONTENTS; "'011:; : IIthOTCI Pr~f,,<:c ); BOOK 1 CAIJITAL IN GE~ERAL; Chapte~' I Commollities 19-; A Notes on the Hi!ltory of th~ Theory of Value !Xi; Chopte II Money or Simple Circulation • • • • • 73·; 1 The Measure of Value • 7",; -"'; 'Il Theories of the Unit of Measure of ~loney 91; 2 The Medium of CiTcuhltion 107; 11 The )letamorphosis of Commodities 108; h The Circulation of Money 125; Co Coin ancl Symbol!! of Vnluc •• 138; 3 ltioney • 162; 3 Hoarding 166; b Means oC Payment • • 185'; c World Money 201; 4 The :rreciou~ Jletal~ 208; - C 'Thcori~ of lhc MNlium of Circulation and of; Money 215; , ppendix Introcluction to the Criti'lue of Political; lndelt; Economy 264; 1 Production in General 260>; 2 The General Rclntioll of Production to Dis·; tribution, Exchange, and Consumption 274; !J 'The Method of Political E
