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Commodity production and capitalism

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The range of Chapter 1 has to be narrowed down now to one of the modes of production listed by Marx in the 1859 Preface — the one described there as ‘modern bourgeois’, or as capitalism, in our current usage.

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  • Marx, Karl, Capital, Vol. I, chapter 1, sections 1, 2 and 4; chapter 6 and chapter 24.

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  • Meek, R., Economics and Ideology and Other Essays (Chapman & Hall Ltd, London, 1967) Part Two.

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  • Morishima, M. and G. Catephores (1975), ‘Is there an “historical transformation problem”?’ The Economic Journal, Vol. 85, pp. 309ff.

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  • Renner, K., (1949), The Institutions of Private Law and their Social Functions (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London) chapters 1, 2 sections I, II and III.

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Catephores, G. (1989). Commodity production and capitalism. In: An Introduction to Marxist Economics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19707-1_2

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