Tuesday 29 August 2017

Theories of Surplus Value, Part II, Index

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Chapter 12 - Tables of Differential Rent and Comment


[1. Changes in the Amount and Rate of Rent]


 Part 1

[2. Various Combinations of Differential and Absolute Rent. Tables A, B, C, D, E]


Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

[3. Analysis of the Tables]



Part 10


Part 11, Part 12


Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21


Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26, Part 27, Part 28, Part 29, Part 30, Part 31, Part 32, Part 33, Part 34, Part 35, Part 36, Part 37

Chapter 13 - Ricardo’s Theory of Rent (Conclusion)


[1. Ricardo’s Assumption of the Non-Existence of Landed Property. Transition to New Land Is Contingent on Its Situation and Fertility]


Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

[2. The Ricardian Assertion that Rent Cannot Possibly Influence the Price of Corn. Absolute Rent Causes the Prices of Agricultural Products to Rise]


Part 5, Part 6

[3. Smith’s and Ricardo’s Conception of the “Natural Price” of the Agricultural Product]


Part 7, Part 8

[4. Ricardo’s Views on Improvements in Agriculture. His Failure to Understand the Economic Consequences of Changes in the Organic Composition of Agricultural Capital]


Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16

[5. Ricardo’s Criticism of Adam Smith’s and Malthus’s Views on Rent]


Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26, Part 27

Chapter 14 - Adam Smith’s Theory of Rent


[1. Contradictions in Smith’s Formulation of the Problem of Rent]


Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10

[2. Adam Smith’s Hypothesis Regarding the Special Character of the Demand for Agricultural Produce. Physiocratic Elements in Smith’s Theory of Rent]


Part 11, Part 12, Part 13

[3. Adam Smith’s Explanation of How the Relation Between Supply and Demand Affects the Various Types of Products from the Land. Smith’s Conclusions Regarding the Theory of Rent]


Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19

[4. Adam Smith’s Analysis of the Variations in the Prices of Products of the Land]


Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23

[5. Adam Smith’s Views on the Movements of Rent and His Estimation of the Interests of the Various Social Classes]


Part 24

Chapter 15 - Ricardo’s Theory of Surplus-Value

A. The Connection Between Ricardo’s Conception of Surplus-Value and His Views on Profit and Rent


1. Ricardo’s Confusion of the Laws of Surplus-Value with the Laws of Profit 

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

[2. Changes in the Rate of Profit Caused by Various Factors] 

Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

[3. The Value of Constant Capital Decreases While That of Variable Capital Increases and Vice Versa, and the Effect of These Changes on the Rate of Profit] 

Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13

[4. Confusion of Cost-Prices with Value in the Ricardian Theory of Profit] 

Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17

[5. The General Rate of Profit and the Rate of Absolute Rent in Their Relation to Each Other. The Influence on Cost-Prices of a Reduction in Wages] 

Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26, Part 27

B. Ricardo On The Problem Of Surplus-Value

1. Quantity of Labour and Value of Labour. [As Presented by Ricardo the Problem of the Exchange of Labour for Capital Cannot Be Solved] 

Part 28, Part 29, Part 30, Part 31, Part 32, Part 33

2. Value of Labour-Power. Value of Labour. [Ricardo’s Confusion of Labour with Labour-Power. Concept of the “Natural Price of Labour”] 

Part 34, Part 35, Part 36, Part 37, Part 38

3. Surplus-Value. [An Analysis of the Source of Surplus-Value Is Lacking in Ricardo’s Work. His Concept of Working-Day as a Fixed Magnitude] 

Part 39, Part 40, Part 41, Part 42, Part 43, Part 44, Part 45, Part 46, Part 47, Part 48, Part 49, Part 50

4. Relative Surplus-Value. [The Analysis of Relative Wages Is One of Ricardo’s Scientific Achievements] 

Part 51, Part 52, Part 53, Part 54, Part 55, Part 56

Chapter 16 - Ricardo's Theory of Profit


[1. Individual Instances in Which Ricardo Distinguishes Between Surplus-Value and Profit]


Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

[2.] Formation of the General Rate of Profit. (Average Profit or “Usual Profit”)



Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10


Part 11, Part 12

[3.] Law of the Diminishing Rate of Profit



Part 13, Part 14


Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18


Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26


Part 27


Part 28, Part 29, Part 30, Part 31, Part 32, Part 33, Part 34, Part 35

Chapter 17 - Ricardo’s Theory of Accumulation and a Critique of it. (The Very Nature of Capital Leads to Crises)


[1. Adam Smith’s and Ricardo’s Error in Failing to Take into Consideration Constant Capital. Reproduction of the Different Parts of Constant Capital]


Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

[2. Value of the Constant Capital and Value of the Product]


Part 6

[3. Necessary Conditions for the Accumulation of Capital. Amortisation of Fixed Capital and Its Role in the Process of Accumulation]


Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11

[4. The Connection Between Different Branches of Production in the Process of Accumulation. The Direct Transformation of a Part of Surplus-Value into Constant Capital—a Characteristic Peculiar to Accumulation in Agriculture and the Machine-building Industry]


Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23

[5. The Transformation of Capitalised Surplus-Value into Constant and Variable Capital]


Part 24

[6. Crises (Introductory Remarks)]


Part 25, Part 26, Part 27, Part 28, Part 29, Part 30, Part 31, Part 32, Part 33, Part 34

[7. Absurd Denial of the Over-production of Commodities, Accompanied by a Recognition of the Over-abundance of Capital]


Part 35, Part 36, Part 37, Part 38

[8. Ricardo’s Denial of General Over-production. Possibility of a Crisis Inherent in the Inner Contradictions of Commodity and Money]


Part 39, Part 40, Part 41, Part 42, Part 43, Part 44

[9. Ricardo’s Wrong Conception of the Relation Between Production and Consumption under the Conditions of Capitalism]


Part 45

[10. Crisis, Which Was a Contingency, Becomes a Certainty. The Crisis as the Manifestation of All the Contradictions of Bourgeois Economy]


Part 46, Part 47, Part 48, Part 49, Part 50, Part 51, Part 52, Part 53, Part 54, Part 55, Part 56, Part 57

[11. On the Forms of Crisis]


Part 58, Part 59, Part 60, Part 61, Part 62, Part 63

[12. Contradictions Between Production and Consumption under Conditions of Capitalism. Over-production of the Principal Consumer Goods Becomes General Over-production]


Part 64, Part 65, Part 66, Part 67, Part 68

[13. The Expansion of the Market Does Not Keep in Step with the Expansion of Production. The Ricardian Conception That an Unlimited Expansion of Consumption and of the Internal Market Is Possible]


Part 69, Part 70

[14. The Contradiction Between the Impetuous Development of the Productive Powers and the Limitations of Consumption Leads to Over-production. The Theory of the Impossibility of General Over-production Is Essentially Apologetic in Tendency]


Part 71, Part 72, Part 73, Part 74, Part 75, Part 76, Part 77, Part 78

[15. Ricardo’s Views on the Different Types of Accumulation of Capital and on the Economic Consequences of Accumulation]


Part 79, Part 80, Part 81, Part 82, Part 83, Part 84, Part 85, Part 86, Part 87, Part 88, Part 89, Part 90, Part 91

Chapter 18 - Ricardo’s Miscellanea. John Barton

[A.] Gross and Net Income


Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

[B.] Machinery [Ricardo and Barton on the Influence of Machines on the Conditions of the Working Class]



[a) Ricardo’s Original Surmise Regarding the Displacement of Sections of the Workers by Machines]

Part 5, Part 6

[b) Ricardo on the Influence of Improvements in Production on the Value of Commodities. False Theory of the Availability of the Wages Fund for the Workers Who Have Been Dismissed]

Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12

[c) Ricardo’s Scientific Honesty, Which Led Him to Revise His Views on the Question of Machinery. Certain False Assumptions Are Retained in Ricardo’s New Formulation of the Question]

Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20

[d) Ricardo’s Correct Determination of Some of the Consequences of the Introduction of Machines for the Working Class. Apologetic Notions in the Ricardian Explanation of the Problem]

Part 21, Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26, Part 27, Part 28

[2. Barton’s Views]


[a) Barton’s Thesis that Accumulation of Capital Causes a Relative Decrease in the Demand for Labour. Barton’s and Ricardo’s Lack of Understanding of the Inner Connection Between This Phenomenon and the Domination of Capital over Labour]

Part 29, Part 30, Part 31, Part 32, Part 33

[b) Barton’s Views on the Movement of Wages and the Growth of Population]

Part 34, Part 35, Part 36, Part 37

Addenda

Part I              Main Index                Part III

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