Teinosuke Otani, Professor Emeritus of economics at Hose University, Tokyo, is the author of Marx’s Theory of Association and Marx’s theory of Interest-bearing Capital (in Japanese). He is also a member of the editorial committee of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). He was President of the Japan Society of Political Economy, a Japanese scholarly organization that boasts of just under 1,000 members.

• Introduction: The Conception of Society Based Upon Labour and the Tasks of Political Economy.- Part I: The Process of Production of Capital: Commodity and Money.- Capital and Surplus-Value.- Exentsion and Shortening of Working Day.- Methods for the Development of Productive Power.- Capitalist Relations of Production and the Alienation of Labour.- Wages.- Reproduction of Capital.- Accumulation of Capital.- Accumulation of Capital and Relative Surplus Population.- Primitive Accumulation.- Part II: The Process of the Circulation of Capital: The Circuit of Capital.- Turnover of Capital.- Reproduction and Circulation of the Total Social Capital.- Part III: Capital and Profit.- Average Rate of Profit and Production Price.- Law of the Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit.- Commercial Capital and Commercial Profit.- Interest-Bearing Capital and Interest.- Landed Property and Ground-Rent.- Revenue Forms and Classes.- Concluding Remarks: Arrival Point of Our Investigation and Remaining Tasks.-Name Index.- Subject Index.

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