Monday, September 15, 2008

Historical Notes on Fictitious Capital

Here is a follow-up of my suggestion yesterday about the relevance of Marx’s theory of fictitious capital for the present day crisis. It begins with a historical overview of the expression, “fictitious capital,” before it gets into the crisis material. The material comes from a book of mine, Marx’s Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor, and Finance.

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7 comments:

  1. Very thorough, michael. So, it did come out of the discussions during the South Sea Bubble originally.

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  2. Very thorough, michael. So, it did come out of the discussions during the South Sea Bubble originally.

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  3. w/Michael's permission, I can post it as a PDF.

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