Ernest Mandel, An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory

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Ernest Mandel

An Introduction to
Marxist Economic Theory

(1967)

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I. The Theory of Value and Surplus value Social Surplus Product Commodities, Use value and Exchange value The Marxist Theory of Alienation The Law of Value Determination of the Exchange Value of Commodities What is Socially Necessary Labor? The Origin and Nature of Surplus Value The Validity of the Labor Theory of Value II. Capital and Capitalism Capital in Pre-capitalist Society Origins of the Capitalist Mode of Production Origins and Definition of the Modern Proletariat The Fundamental Mechanism of Capitalist Economy The Growth in the Organic Composition of Capital Competition Leads to Concentration and Monopoly Tendency of the Average Rate of Profit to Decline The Fundamental Contradiction in the Capitalist System and the Periodic Crises of Overproduction III. Neo-capitalism The Origins of Neo-capitalism A Permanent Technological Revolution The Importance of Armament Expenditures How Crises are “Amortized” in a Recession The Tendency to Permanent Inflation “Economic Planning” The State Guaranty of Profit