by Geert Reuten (Author)
About the Author
Geert Reuten, Ph.D. (1988), teaches political economy at the University of Amsterdams School of Economics. He has authored two books (including Value-form and the state, with Michael Williams, Routledge 1989), edited six books and published seventy articles in academic journals and books.
About this book
Geert Reuten's The unity of the capitalist economy and state offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system. Outlining the economic and state institutions and processes that sustain capitalism, Reuten shows how the capitalist economy and state inevitably constitute a unity
Brief contents
General introduction 1
Part 1 The capitalist economy
1 The capitalist mode of production: The capitalist economy in general: the production of monetary value and the enterprises’ appropriation of surplus-value 27
2 Accumulation of capital 83
3 Finance of enterprises: The macroeconomic pre-validation and validation of production 133
4 Market interaction and stratified production: Competition, cartel formation and monopolisation 199
5 The cyclical over-accumulation and destruction of capital: Business cycles 243
Part 2 The capitalist state
Introduction to part two: the capitalist state 295
6 State-granted capitalist economic rights: The capitalist state in general 297
7 Furthering the conditions for the accumulation of capital 331
8 State expenditure and its finance: Effects on macroeconomic surplus-value and on the distribution of income and wealth 385
9 The imposition of competition: A framework of constraints on the modes of market interaction 441
10 The reach of the capitalist state 467
Part 3 The international capitalist system
11 The international capitalist system 525
Part 4 Summary and additions
12 General summary and conclusions 575
13 Synopsis of the main moments of ‘The unity of the capitalist economy and state’ 597
14 An outline of systematic dialectics – General appendix: A systematic-dialectical method for the investigation and exposition of the capitalist system 601
Bibliography 627
List of symbols and abbreviations in order of appearance 651
List of symbols and abbreviations in alphabetical order 659
List of equations by chapter 666
Glossary of field-specific terms 676
Index of names 693
Index of subjects 698
Index of main empirical graphs and tables 724
Series: Historical Materialism Book (Book 186)
Pages: 736 pages
Publisher: BRILL (January 10, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9004392793
ISBN-13: 978-9004392793