This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl
Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for
further discussion. Recognizing the contemporary relevance of Capital
in the midst of the current financial crisis, Kenneth Smith has
produced an essential guide to Marx’s ideas, particularly on the
subject of the circulation of money-capital. This guide uniquely
presents the three volumes of Capital in a different order of reading
to that in which they were published, placing them instead in the
order that Marx himself sometimes recommended as a more user-friendly
way of reading. Dr Smith also argues that, for most of the twentieth
century, the full development of the capitalist mode of production
(CMP) has been undermined by the existence of a non-capitalist
‘third world’, which has caused the CMP to take on the form of
what Marx called a highly developed mercantile system, rather than one
characterized by an uninterrupted circuit of industrial capital of the
kind he expected would develop. While the guide can be read as a book
in its own right, it also contains detailed references to Volumes
I–III so that students, seminars and discussion groups can easily
make connections between Dr Smith’s explanations and the relevant
parts of Capital. Both user-friendly and comprehensive, Karl Marx’s
Capital: A Guide to Volumes I-III will be useful to undergraduate and
postgraduate students of sociology, political science, philosophy and
economics, as well as to the general reader with a keen interest in
Marx’s Capital and its relevance to the world today.
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ISBN
9781839980022
Publisert
2021
Utgave
2. utgave
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Vendor
Anthem Press (NBN)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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