Screen LibraryMarx's theory of the genesis of money : how, why, and through what is a commodity money? /
In the present volume, the first of the author's works to be translated into English, Samezo Kuruma examines the different angles from which Marx analyses the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, Volume I. Kuruma carefully explains each of the theoretical questions raised b...
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| Group Author: | ; |
| Published: |
Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Japanese |
| Series: |
Historical materialism book series,
volume 154 |
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| Summary: |
In the present volume, the first of the author's works to be translated into English, Samezo Kuruma examines the different angles from which Marx analyses the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, Volume I. Kuruma carefully explains each of the theoretical questions raised by Marx, particularly the theory of the value-form, which unravels the mystery surrounding money. The theoretical knowledge Marx gains from his analysis of the commodity is the linchpin of 'Capital', but he recognises that this presents the reader with the 'greatest difficulty' just as 'beginnings are a |
| Item Description: |
Translated from the Japanese. "Contains the full text of Kuruma's book, Kachikeitai-ron to kokankate-ron (Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process) published by Iwanami Shoten in 1957; and a slightly abridged version of Part I of his 1979 book Kahei-ron (Theory of Money)"--Notes on the text. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 194 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-190) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004322387 9004322388 |
| Index Number: | HG220 |
| CLC: |
F091.91 F820 |
| Call Number: | F820/K969 |