Harvey D. A Companion to Marx's Capital

Verso, 2010. — 356 p. — ISBN: 1844673588.The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars.Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again.Commodities and exchange
Money
From capital to labor power
The labor process and the production of surplus value
The working day
Relative surplus-value
What technology reveals
Machinery and large-scale industry
From absolute and relative surplus-value to the accumulation of capital
Capitalist accumulation
The secret of primitive accumulationReflections and prognoses