Political economy / [Rumi︠a︡nt︠s︡ev, A.M. ... et al. ; translated from the Russian by Yuri Sdobnikov].

Translation of: Politicheskai︠a︡ ėkonomii︠a︡.

Includes index.

Chapter One. The subject-matter and method of political economy -- Chapter Two. Precapitalist modes of production.

Part One; The capitalist mode of production - Section 1 The general principles of the capitalist mode of production - Chapter three. Commodity production, commodities and money -- Chapter four. Capital and surplus value. The basic economic law of capitalism -- Chapter five. Wages under capitalism -- Chapter six. The general law of capitalist accumulation -- Chapter seven. The circuit and turnover of capital -- Chapter eight. Profit and the price of production -- Chapter nine. Commercial capital and commercial profit. Loan capital and interest. -- Chapter ten. Ground rent. The development of capitalism in agriculture - Section 2 Imperialism is monopoly capitalism - A. The uniformities of monopoly capitalism -- Chapter twelve. The main features of imperialism -- Chapter thirteen. The historical place of imperialism - B. The crisis of world capitalism - Chapter fourteen. The substance of the general crisis of capitalism. The division of the world into two socio-economic systems and struggle between them -- Chapter fifteen. Development of state-monopoly capitalism -- Chapter sixteen. The collapse of the colonial system of imperialism. Specific features of teh newly-free countries' economy -- Chapter seventeen. Agrarian relation and the conditions of the peasantry in the capitalist countries at the present stage. -- Chapter eighteen. Peculiarities of the reproduction of capital today. Growing unevenness in the development of capitalism and exacerbation of its contradictions.

Part Two; Socialism, the first phase of the communist mode of production - Section 3 The formation and development of the economy of the socialist society - Chapter nineteen. The economic uniformities underlying the formation of socialist and the stages of its development - Section 4 Socialist production - Chapter twenty. Social property in the means of production. The basic economic law of socialism -- Chapter twenty-one. Planned and balanced development of the socialist economy -- Chapter twenty-two. Commodity-money relations under socialism -- Chapter twenty-three. The planning of the socialist economy -- Chapter twenty-four. The factors of socialist production. The growing efficiency of production. The economic law of steady growth of social labour productivity -- Chapter twenty-five. Distribution according to work. Social consumption funds -- Chapter twenty-six. Accumulation and consumption under socialism - Section 5 The system of economic calculus relations in the socialist economy -- Chapter twenty-seven. The principles of economic calculus -- Chapter twenty-eight. The circuit and turnover of productions assets. Credit in the socialist economy -- Chapter twenty-nine. The costs of the enterprise, the price system. Net income and finance -- Chapter thirty. Specific features of economic calculus relations in agriculture - Section 6 Socialist social reproduction. The development of socialism into communism -- Chapter thirty-one. Expanded reproduction of the aggregate social product -- Chapter thirty-two. Commodity circulation in socialist social reproduction -- Chapter thirty-three. Finance, credit and the currency of money in socialist social reproduction -- Chapter thirty-four. The uniformities of the gradual development of socialism into communism - Section 7 Two world economic systems -- Chapter thirty-five. The socialist world economic system -- Chapter thirty-six. Competition of the two world economic systems and the inevitable triumph of Communism on a world scale.

"This book was prepared by a group of Soviet scholars... and is a systematic course in the political economy of capitalism and socialism, with a consideration of the subject-matter of political economy, the precapitalist modes of production, the categories and uniformities of the capitalist mode of production at its premonopoly and monopoly stages of development, and an analysis of the specific features of state-monopoly capitalism. They deal at length with the problems and uniformiteis of the socialist society as it grows into communism." -- back cover

Translated from Russian.