The Constitution of Capital

The essays in this collection address specific themes in Volume I of Marx’s “Capital”. Although the essays can be read independently, they present complementary perspectives on issues at the cutting edge of scholarship on Marx’s work. Although all Parts of “Capital I” are discussed, the book is not intended to be a textbook. It intended to be read by specialists in the field as well as graduate students in the history of economic thought, political economy and philosophy.

Author Biography

RICCARDO BELLOFIORE is Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He wrote a book on the Italian Marxist scholar Claudio Napoleoni (1991), and edited a collection on Piero Sraffa (1986) – both in Italian. He acted as guest editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Political Economy on ‘Marxian Theory’: The Italian Debate (1997). He also edited: Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal (1998); Global Money, Capital Restructuring and the Changing Patterns of Labour (1999); (with Mario Baldassarri) Classical and Marxian Political Economy: A Debate on Claudio Napoleoni’s Views, a special issue of the Rivista di Politica Economica (1999); and (with Piero Ferri) two volumes on Hyman Minsky’s economics – Financial Keynesianism and Market Instability and Financial Fragility and Investment in the Capitalist Economy (2001). – NICOLA TAYLOR graduated with Honours in Economic Theory and Policy from Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, where she is currently reading for her doctoral dissertation. Her interests are in Marx’s thought, economic theories of money and systematic dialectics. She is a new member of the International Symposium on Marxian Theory and has contributed papers to two of the group’s conferences. – – -