The Mismeasure of Wealth

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Putting the Spotlight on Social Form and Purpose

PART I: THE ESSAYS

1: Value, Money and Capital in Hegel and Marx
2: Redoubled Empiricism: The Place of Social Form and Formal Causality in Marxian Theory
3: Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy
4: Marx’s ‘Truly Social’ Labour Theory of Value: Part I, Abstract Labour in Marxian Value Theory
5: Marx’s ‘Truly Social’ Labour Theory of Value: Part II, How is Labour that is under the Sway of Capital Actually Abstract?
6: The Grammar of Value: A Close Look at Marx’s Critique of Samuel Bailey
7: The Development of Marx’s Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse: Reflections on Backhaus
8: The Necessity of Money: How Hegel Helped Marx to Surpass Ricardo’s Theory of Value
9: Money as Displaced Social Form: Why Value cannot be Independent of Price
10: The Social and Material Transformation of Production by Capital: Formal and Real Subsumption in Capital, Volume I
11: The Place of ‘The Results of the Immediate Production Process’ in Capital
12: Beyond the ‘Commerce and Industry’ Picture of Capital
13: Capital ‘Laid Bare’: How Hegel Helped Marx Surpass Ricardo’s Theory of Profit
14: The Illusion of the Economic: The Trinity Formula and the ‘Religion of Everyday Life’

PART TWO: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS

15: Avoiding Bad Abstractions: A Defence of Co-constitutive Value-Form Theory
16: The New Giant’s Staircase
17: In Defence of the ‘Third Thing Argument’: A Reply to James Furner’s ‘Marx’s Critique of Samuel Bailey’
18: Reply to Reuten
19: Comments on ‘The Four Drafts of Capital: Towards a new interpretation of the dialectical thought of Marx’ by Enrique Dussel and ‘Introduction to Dussel’ by Fred Moseley

Bibliography
Index