A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Translated from the Second German Edition by N. I. STONE With an Appendix Containing Marx's Introduction to the Critique Recently Published among His Posthumous Papers. CHICAGO CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY Copyright, 1904 By the International Library Publishing Co. CONTENTS TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. AUTHOR’S PREFACE CAPITAL IN GENERAL. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. COMMODITIES. A, NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE THEORY OF COMMODITIES. CHAPTER II. MONEY OR SIMPLE CIRCULATION. 1. THE MEASURE OF VALUE. B. THEORIES OF THE UNIT OF MEASURE OF MONEY. 2. THE MEDIUM OF CIRCULATION. 3. MONEY. 4. THE PRECIOUS METALS. C.THEORIES OF THE MEDIUM OF CIRCULATION AND OF MONEY. Introduction 1. PRODUCTION IN GENERAL 2. THE GENERAL RELATION OF PRODUCTION TO DISTRIBU- TION, EXCHANGE, AND CONSUMPTION. 3. THE METHOD OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. 4. PRODUCTION, MEANS OF PRODUCTION, AND CONDITIONS