Theory of Crisis

Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Uno Kōzō, Kyoko Ron (Theory of Crisis)

Introduction
 1  Classical Phenomena of Crises
 2  The Theory of Crisis and Foreign Trade
 3  The Role of Commercial Capital in Relation to the Phenomena of Crisis
 4  The Possibility and Inevitability of Crisis in Capitalist Society

1 Prosperity
 1  The Accumulation of Capital in the Phase of Prosperity
 2  The Role Performed by Credit
 3  Speculative Development and the Rise in Prices

2 Crisis
 1  The Collision between the Profit Rate and the Interest Rate
 2  The Excess of Capital and the Excess (Surplus) of Populations
 3  The Destruction of the Value of Capital

3 Depression
 1  The Stagnation of the Reproduction Process
 2  Inaugurating New Accumulation through Improvements to the Production Process
 3  The Turn towards Prosperity

4 The Turnover Period of the Business Cycle

5 The Inevitability of Crisis in Capitalist Society
 1  Mechanical Inevitability and Historical Inevitability
 2  The Inevitability of Crisis and the Inevitability of Collapse
 3  The Theory of Crisis and the Analyses of Crises

Appendix 1: Problems of the Theory of Crisis in Capital
Appendix 2: Capital and the Demonstration of the Inevitable Ground of Crisis
Guiding Comments
  Makoto Itoh
Supplementary Essay: Uno Kōzō’s Theory of Crisis Today
  Ken C. Kawashima and Gavin Walker
Works Cited in Theory of Crisis
Index