Capital, Volume Three: The Process of Capitalist

Capital, Volume Three: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole is the third and final volume of Karl Marx’s magnum opus, Capital. In this volume, Marx examines the entire process of capitalist production, from the production of commodities to the circulation of capital. He examines the role of the capitalist, the worker, and the state in the production process, and how these three elements interact to create the capitalist system. He also examines the role of money and credit in the capitalist system, and how these affect the production process. Finally, Marx examines the role of the state in regulating the capitalist system, and how it can be used to create a more equitable distribution of wealth. Throughout the volume, Marx emphasizes the importance of understanding the dynamics of the capitalist system in order to create a more just and equitable society.

By Karl Marx · First published 1867 · Genre: Political Theory, Philosophy, Economics · 53 chapters

Contents

• Cost-Price and Profit
• The Rate of Profit
• The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value
• The Effect of the Turnover on the Rate of Profit
• Economy in the Employment of Constant Capital
• The Effect of Price Fluctuation
• Supplementary Remarks
• Different Compositions of Capitals in Different Branches of Production and Resulting Differences in Rates of Profit
• Formation of a General Rate of Profit
• Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit Through Competition
• Effects of General Wage Fluctuations on Prices of Production
• Supplementary Remarks
• The Law As Such
• Counteracting Influences
• Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law
• Commercial Capital
• Commercial Profit
• The Turnover of Merchant's Capital
• Money-Dealing Capital
• Historical Facts about Merchant's Capital
• Interest-Bearing Capital
• Division of Profit. Rate of Interest
• Interest and Profit of Enterprise
• Externalization of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
• Credit and Fictitious Capital
• Accumulation of Money-Capital. Its Influence on the Interest Rate
• The Role of Credit in Capitalist
• Medium of Circulation and Capital; Views of Tooke and Fullarton
• Component Parts of Bank Capital
• Money-Capital and Real Capital
• Money Capital and Real Capital
• Money Capital and Real Capital
• The Medium of Circulation in the Credit System
• The Currency Principle and the English Bank Legislation of 1844
• Precious Metal and Rate of Exchange
• Pre-Capitalist Relationships
• Introduction
• Differential Rent: General Remarks
• First Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent I)
• Second Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent II)
• Differential Rent II - First Case: Constant Price of Production
• Differential Rent II - Second Case: Falling Price of Production
• Differential Rent II - Third Case: Rising Price of Production
• Differential Rent Also on the Worst Cultivated Soil
• Absolute Ground-Rent
• Building Site Rent. Rent in Mining
• Genesis of Capitalist Ground-Rent
• The Trinity Formula
• Concerning the Analysis of the Process of Production
• Illusions Created By Competition
• Distribution Relations and Production Relations
• Classes
• Supplement by Frederick Engels

More by Karl Marx

• The Communist Manifesto (1848)
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (1896)
• Capital, Volume One: The Process of Production of Capital (1867)
• Capital, Volume Two: The Process of Circulation of Capital (1867)
• All works by Karl Marx