Intro -- Contents -- 1. On Reading Marx: Method -- 2. The Commodity: Labor, Value, Money -- 3. The Theory of Capital and Surplus Value -- 4. Production under Capitalism -- 5. The Reproduction of Capital -- 6. The Equalization of the Rate of Profit -- 7. The Division of Surplus Value -- 8. The Falling Rate of Profit -- 9. The Theory of Capitalist Crisis -- 10. Socialism -- Suggested Readings -- References -- Index.
Understanding Capital is a brilliantly lucid introduction to Marxist economic theory. Duncan Foley builds an understanding of the theory systematically, from first principles through the definition of central concepts to the development of important applications.