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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

by Karl Marx (1818–1883)

14 chapters, about 72,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. 1,100 words
2. AUTHOR’S PREFACE. 1,600 words
3. COMMODITIES. 12,000 words
4. MONEY OR SIMPLE CIRCULATION. 200 words
5. 1. THE MEASURE OF VALUE. 7,200 words
6. C―M―C M―C―M. 7,200 words
7. C. COIN AND SYMBOLS OF VALUE. 5,900 words
8. 3. MONEY. 10,100 words
9. 4. THE PRECIOUS METALS. 12,700 words
10. 1. PRODUCTION IN GENERAL. 6,300 words
11. 3. THE METHOD OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. 4,900 words
12. FOOTNOTES: 2,200 words
13. PRICE OF SILVER PER OUNCE. 700 words
14. AUTHORS QUOTED IN ZUR KRITIK 300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Capital (economics)
• Distribution (economics)
• Economics
• Exchange value
• Metal (wuxing)
• Money
• Political economy
• Price
• Ratio
• Social science
• Syndicalism
• Tautology (logic)
• Value (economics)
• Wage labour

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