Marx Karl. A history of economic theories from the physiocrats to Adam Smith

Edited, with a pref., by Karl Kautsky; translated from the French, with an introd. and notes, by Terence McCarthy. — New York: Langland Press, 1952. — xxxi, 337 p.Karl Marx’s History of Economic Theories from the Physiocrats to Adam Smith is Part I of the legendary but previously untranslated Volume IV of Marx’s Capital. Although it was written some ninety years ago, it remained unpublished until the first German edition appeared in 1904. Originally, Marx had intended to prepare the first three volumes for publication, then, from the remaining mass of manuscript, to extract a final volume constituting a history of theories of surplus value. Engels, who became Marx’s literary executor, was unable to follow this plan during his lifetime and assigned the task to Kautsky. Kautsky, however, found it impossible to carry out the project in the form intended. Much of the material indicated by Marx and Engels for inclusion in Volume IV had already been covered, in part at least, in the three preceding volumes. Consequently, the work as it now stands does not follow Marx’s precise plan. It is more comprehensive in scope, deals with economic theories whose relation to surplus value and profit is not immediate, and more closely approaches a complete and critical history of economic theories than the narrower concept which Marx had had in mind.Introduction. Terence McCarthy.
Preface. Karl KAutsky.
The Physiocrats.
Some of Their Predecessors and Contemporaries.
The General Character of the Physiocratic System.
The Reproduction and Circulation of the Total Social Capital According to Quesnay’s "Tableau Économique".
Reflections on the "Tableau Économique".
Adam Smith and The Theory of Productive Labor.
Adam Smith’s Labor Theory of Value.
The Origin of Surplus Value.
Capital and Property in Land as Sources of Value.
Reduction of Price into Wages, Profit, and Ground Rent.
The Exchange Between Capital and Capital and the Influence of Changes in Value upon this Operation.
Exchange Between Revenue and Capital.
Productive and Unproductive Labor.
Some Theories of Productive Labor Before and After Adam Smith.
Germain Gamier.
Ganilh.
Ganilh and Ricardo on Gross Revenue and Net Revenue.
Ferrier, Adam Smith, and the Accumulation of Capital. A New Definition of Productive Labor.
Lauderdale and J. B. Say.
Destutt de Tracy. The Origin of Profit.
Henri Storch. Intellectual Production.
Nassau Senior.
Pellegrino Rossi.
Thomas Chalmers and Certain of Adam Smith’s Theories.
Notes on the Theory of Productive Labor.