"The history of capitalisrn is a sequence of recurring crises that appear in various forrns: crises in putting people to work, crises in obtaining resources, and financial crises. Marx wrote extensively on these subjects. In the process, he developed a rich theory of finance and resource scarcity. Yet Marxists have not generally responded adequately to contemporary crises, such as the oil shocks of the 1970s or the debt crises of the 1980s. This book represents a first step in bringing together Marx's theories of finance and resource scarcity."
1 Political Economy and the Press: Karl Marx and Henry Carey at the New York Tribune 10
2 Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity 27
3 In Search of a Method: The Nature and Evolution of the Categories of Political Economy 56
4 Value Theory and Marx's Method 109
5 Capital, Constant Capital, and the Social Division of Labor 129
6 Fictitious Capital and Crisis Theory 170
7 Conclusion 218
