CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| Translator’s Preface | [3] |
| Author’s Preface | [9] |
| BOOK I. CAPITAL IN GENERAL. | |
| Chapter I. Commodities | [19] |
| A. Notes on the History of the Theory of Value | [56] |
| Chapter II. Money or Simple Circulation | [73] |
| 1. The Measure of Value | [74] |
| B. Theories of the Unit of Measure of Money | [91] |
| 2. The Medium of Circulation | [107] |
| a. The Metamorphosis of Commodities | [108] |
| b. The Circulation of Money | [125] |
| c. Coin and Symbols of Value | [138] |
| 3. Money | [162] |
| a. Hoarding | [166] |
| b. Means of Payment | [185] |
| c. World Money | [201] |
| 4. The Precious Metals | [208] |
C. Theories of the Medium of Circulation and of Money | [215] |
Appendix. Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy | [264] |
| 1. Production in General | [265] |
2. The General Relation of Production to Distribution, change, and Consumption | [274] |
| 3. The Method of Political Economy | [292] |
4. Production, Means of Production, and Conditions of Production | [306] |
| Index | [313] |
BOOK I. Capital in general.
CHAPTER I.
COMMODITIES.
At first sight the wealth of society under the capitalist system presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities, its unit being a single commodity. But every commodity has a twofold aspect, that of use value and exchange value.[2]