The Negative of Capital

The Marxian Concept of Economic Crisis

Jorge Grespan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

14 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69071-4 (ISBN)

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The concept of crisis must be considered the guiding thread of Marx's economic work, despite the difficulties of its exposition. Grespan’s work demonstrates how, as the negative of capital, the meaning of crisis is enriched each time the concept of capital is given a more complex content.

The complex exposition of the concept of economic crisis in Capital and its preparatory manuscripts gave rise to different interpretations about the causes and modalities of crises themselves. Are their causes chronic under-consumption, inter-sectoral disproportionality or a fall in the profit rate? Are they merely possible or absolutely inevitable?

Jorge Grespan’s work renews these traditional debates by treating the concept of crisis as the negative of the concept of capital. By means of a thoroughgoing exposition of Marx’s masterwork, his book reconstitutes the steps by which Capital’s exposition progressively enriches its content and form. To this end, dialectical categories such as measurelessness and relative necessity are mobilised and developed.

Jorge Grespan, studied Economics and History at the Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil, and is Professor of Theory of History since 1985 at the same university. He has published many articles, books, and book chapters in Portuguese and Spanish. In English he published “About the Beginning and End of Capitalism”, in Marx's Capital. An Unfinishable Project?, Leiden, Brill, 2018, and “The renewal of Marxist Historiography through the Study of Enslavement. The Case of Brazil”, in What is Left of Marxism, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020.

Preface to the English edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Double Face of Capital

2 Content of the Crisis

3 Crisis and Modality

1 The World of Commodity Producers

1 The Social Division of Labour

2 Money and Crisis

2 The Constitution of Capital

1 From Simple Circulation to Capital

2 The Subjectivity of Capital

3 The Measureless Nature of Crisis

3 The Figures of Reproduction

1 The Circuits of Capital

2 The Reproduction of Social Capital

4 Capital as a Totality

1 Competition and Profit

2 The Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit

3 Periodical Overaccumulation

Conclusions

1 The Time of Crisis

2 The Actual Crisis

3 The Modalities of Crisis

4 The Power of Fetishism

Postface

1 Commercial Capital and its Crises

2 Interest-Bearing Capital and its Crises

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism Book Series ; 308
Übersetzer	Martin Charles Nicholl
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	633 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-69071-9 / 9004690719
ISBN-13	978-90-04-69071-4 / 9789004690714
Zustand	Neuware