Marx's "Theories of Surplus Value" is the fourth volume of his monumental "Das Kapital" (Capital) and is now available exclusively from Prometheus and Humanity Books. Divided into three parts, this lengthy work reviews classic economic analyses of labour and value (Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, and others), focusing on the concept of 'surplus value' - the difference between the full value of a worker's labour and the wages received for this labour. This is a key concept for Marx since in his view the capitalist maintains power through controlling surplus value. This complete, unabridged edition is now available in one volume.
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The present edition contains in full both the main text of THEORIES OF SURPLUS VALUE--to which the table of contents compiled by Marx refers and which gives a connected exposition of the "history of the theory" from James Steuart to Richard Jones--and the digressions supplementing this main text which are in notebooks V, XV, XX, XXI, XXII and XXIII. These supplementary sections are put in the form of appendices, in order not to interfere with the sequence of the exposition given in the main taxt.
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This book represents the painstaking effort of a great mind. An excrucriatingly detailed critical review of the economic literature pre-dating Marx is undertaken. Anyone seeking to understand the history of economics must carefully review this epic work. Historians too, will appreciate the extensive treatment of the contexts into which generations of economic ideas were born. Marx's revolutionary new theory of class emerges clearly from his critical reading of the great and not-so-great works which provided the foundation on which his break-throughs were built.
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Before the Physiocrats, surplus-valuethat is, profit in the form of profitwas explained purely from exchange, the sale of the commodity above its value. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Adam Smith, Herr Rodbertus, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, David Ricardo, James Mill, Richard Jones, Middle Ages, Wilhelm Thukydides, Ricardo's Principles, United States, Destutt de Tracy, Zur Kritik, Monsieur Destutt, Great Britain, Erstes Heft, John Cazenove, Labour Defended, Monsieur Ganilh, Political Arithmetick, William Petty, Conditions of Capitalism, Critical Dissertation, Text-book of Lectures, Adani Smith New!
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Before the Physiocrats, surplus-valuethat is, profit in the form of profitwas explained purely from exchange, the sale of the commodity above its value. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Adam Smith, Herr Rodbertus, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, David Ricardo, James Mill, Richard Jones, Middle Ages, Wilhelm Thukydides, Ricardo's Principles, United States, Destutt de Tracy, Zur Kritik, Monsieur Destutt, Great Britain, Erstes Heft, John Cazenove, Labour Defended, Monsieur Ganilh, Political Arithmetick, William Petty, Conditions of Capitalism, Critical Dissertation, Text-book of Lectures, Adani Smith New!
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