Marxian economics / Meghnad Desai.

List of algebraic symbols, ix -- I. Introduction, 1 -- Part one. Basic concepts, 1 -- II. The role of value theory in classical, neoclassical and marxian economics, 9 -- III. Value and surplus value, 19 -- IV. The Creation of surplus value, 26 -- V. The three circuits of capital, 32 -- VI. Simple reproduction and expanded reproduction: a preliminary view, 39 -- VII. The rate of exploitation and the rate of profit, 47 -- Part two. Value prices: the transformation problem, 57 -- VIII. Introduction, 57 -- IX. Values and prices: the problem as posed by Marx, 62 -- X. Bortkiewicz's solution: the simple case, 73 -- XI Bortkiewicz's solution: the fixed capital case, 81 -- XII. Alternative approaches to the transformation problem, 94 -- XIII. The problem of joint reproduction, 121 -- Part three. Accumulation and the rate of profit, 147 -- XIV. Introduction: extended reproduction, 147 -- XV. Rosa Luxembourg on accumulation, 154 -- XVI. Marx's model of accumulation, 161 -- XVII. The scheme of expanded reproduction as a planning model, 172 -- XVIII. Expectations and accumulation, 179 -- XIX. The falling rate of profit, 188 -- XX. Some contemporary debates, 199 -- Appendix, 215 -- Notes, 246 -- Bibliography, 253 -- Index, 257.