What is Political Economy? • Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism • Mode of Production • Historical Social Formations: The Emergence of Capitalism • Capitalist Commodity Production, Valuation and Money • The Essence of Capitalist Exploitation: Wage, Surplus Value and Profit • Growth and Decay of Capitalism: Reproduction, Accumulation and Crisis • Monopoly Capitalism and Imperialism • Neocolonialism: The Highest Stage of Imperialism • Classical Political Economy: An Overview • Neoclassical Economics: A Holistic View • Marginalist Economics: A Resume • Marxian Political Economy: A Synoptic View • A Note on Piero Sraffa • Select Bibliography • Index
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