Theory of Crisis

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Based on Marx’s Capital, Uno Kōzō’s Theory of Crisis provides a rigorous exposition of the necessity of crisis of the capitalist mode of production from the perspectives of “excess capital alongside surplus populations”. ‎Contents ‎Translator’s Preface ‎Author’s Preface ‎Uno Kōzō, Kyōkō Ron (Theory of Crisis) ‎Introduction ‎1. Typical 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 ‎Chapter 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 ‎Chapter 2. Crisis ‎1. The Collision between the Profit Rate and the Interest Rate ‎2. The Excess of Capital and the Surplus of Populations ‎3. The Destruction of the Value of Capital ‎Chapter 3. Depression ‎1. The Stagnation of the Reproduction Process ‎2. Inaugurating New Accumulation through Improvements to the Production Process ‎3. The Turn towards Prosperity ‎Chapter 4. The Turnover Period of the Business Cycle ‎Chapter 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. Problematic Points in the Theory of Crisis in Das Kapital ‎Appendix 2. Capital and the Demonstration of the Inevitable Ground of Crisis ‎Guiding Comments (Itoh) ‎Supplementary Essay. Uno Kōzō’s Theory of Crisis Today (Kawashima and Walker) ‎Works Cited in Theory of Crisis ‎Index