Rudolf Hilferding
Finance Capital
A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development
Written: 1910
First Published: Rudolf Hilferding, Das Finanzkapital. Eine Studie über die jüngste Entwicklung des Kapitalismus, Vienna, Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1910 (Marx-Studien, vol. III)
Source: Rudolf Hilferding, Finance Capital. A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development. Ed. Tom Bottomore (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1981) courtesy of Routledge.
Translated: Edited by Tom Bottomore from translations made by Professor Morris Watnick and Mr Sam Gordon.
Transcription/Markup: Steve Palmer
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Copyright: Rudolf Hilferding © 1910; Morris Watnick © 1981; Sam Gordon © 1981; Tom Bottomore © 1981.
FINANCE CAPITAL
Part I Money and credit
2. Money in the circulation process
3. Money as a means of payment. Credit money
4. Money in the circulation of industrial capital
5. The banks and industrial credit
Part II The mobilization of capital. Fictitious capital
10. Bank capital and bank profit
Part III Finance capital and the restriction of free competition
11. Surmounting the obstacles to the equalization of rates of profit
13. The capitalist monopolies and commerce
14. The capitalist monopolies and the banks.
The transformation of capital into finance capital15. Price determination by the capitalist monopolies and
the historical tendency of finance capitalPart IV Finance capital and crises
16. The general conditions of crises
18. Credit conditions in the course of the business cycle
19. Money capital and productive capital during the depression
20. Changes in the character of crises. Cartels and crises
Part V The economic policy of finance capital
21. The reorientation of commercial policy
22. The export of capital and the struggle for economic territory
23. Finance capital and classes
24. The conflict over the labour contract
25. The proletariat and imperialism
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