Money and the Form of Value

Christopher J. Arthur

Chapter 2 in The Constitution of Capital, 2004, pp 35-62 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the Preface to the first edition of Capital, Marx drew attention to the fact that the chapter on the commodity, and, more especially, the section on the form of value, is the most difficult (89–90).1 Yet this section is, Marx told Engels, ‘decisive’ for the whole book.2 In this chapter he felt compelled to ‘popularize’ the presentation of certain topics. But the intrinsic difficulty of the section on the form of value prevented this, not because it is complex; rather ‘the value-form, whose fully developed shape is the money-form, is very simple and bare of content’3 (90). The trouble is that it pertains to the most abstract issues of all in ‘the analysis of economic forms’, including the nature of money.

Keywords: Equivalent Form; Relative Form; Exchange Relation; Expanded Form; Human Labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403938640_2

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