"Karl Marx hypothesized that there is a long-term tendency for the profit rate to fall in capitalist economies. Immanuel Wallerstein hypothesized that capitalist development tends to drive up labor cost, material cost, and taxation cost. This book evaluates Marx's and Wallerstein's hypotheses by...

1. Value as embodied labor -- 2. Value as a social relation -- 3. Exploitation and surplus value -- 4. Circuit of capital -- 5. Commodity money -- 6. Capital and money -- 7. Credit, crises and capital -- 8. Competition among capitals -- 9. Fixed capital and circulation -- 10. Accumulation and...