The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

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book economic treatise non-fiction book

"The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole" is the third volume of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, in which he analyzes the overall dynamics of the capitalist system, including profit, interest, and the distribution of surplus value.

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Label	Occurrences
Capital, Volume III	4
Karl Marx's Capital Volume II	1
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole canonical	1
Volume III of Capital	1

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Target entity: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Context triple: [Das Kapital, thirdVolumeTitle, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole]

A. The Accumulation of Capital
The Accumulation of Capital is a seminal Marxist economic treatise by Rosa Luxemburg that analyzes imperialism and capitalist expansion through the lens of capital accumulation and its contradictions.
B. The Process of Circulation of Capital
The Process of Circulation of Capital is the second volume of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, analyzing how capital moves through the phases of production, circulation, and realization in a capitalist economy.
C. Das Kapital
Das Kapital is Karl Marx’s foundational critique of political economy that analyzes capitalism’s dynamics, contradictions, and exploitation of labor.
D. The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty
The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty is an 1846 work by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that offers a critical, dialectical analysis of capitalism and political economy from a socialist and anarchist perspective.
E. Book IV: Of the Influence of the Progress of Society on Production and Distribution
Book IV: Of the Influence of the Progress of Society on Production and Distribution is a major section of John Stuart Mill’s "Principles of Political Economy" that analyzes how advancing social and economic development affects the ways wealth is produced and shared.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Target entity description: "The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole" is the third volume of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, in which he analyzes the overall dynamics of the capitalist system, including profit, interest, and the distribution of surplus value.

A. The Accumulation of Capital
The Accumulation of Capital is a seminal Marxist economic treatise by Rosa Luxemburg that analyzes imperialism and capitalist expansion through the lens of capital accumulation and its contradictions.
B. The Process of Circulation of Capital
The Process of Circulation of Capital is the second volume of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, analyzing how capital moves through the phases of production, circulation, and realization in a capitalist economy.
C. Das Kapital
Das Kapital is Karl Marx’s foundational critique of political economy that analyzes capitalism’s dynamics, contradictions, and exploitation of labor.
D. The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty
The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty is an 1846 work by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that offers a critical, dialectical analysis of capitalism and political economy from a socialist and anarchist perspective.
E. Book IV: Of the Influence of the Progress of Society on Production and Distribution
Book IV: Of the Influence of the Progress of Society on Production and Distribution is a major section of John Stuart Mill’s "Principles of Political Economy" that analyzes how advancing social and economic development affects the ways wealth is produced and shared.
F. None of above. chosen

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instanceOf	book ⓘ economic treatise ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ
analyzes	division of surplus value into profit and ground rent ⓘ division of surplus value into profit and interest ⓘ formation of average rate of profit ⓘ overall dynamics of the capitalist system ⓘ transformation of values into prices of production ⓘ
author	Karl Marx ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Germany ⓘ
focusesOn	crisis tendencies of capitalism ⓘ distribution of surplus value among different fractions of capital ⓘ relations between industrial capital, commercial capital, and money capital ⓘ role of credit in capitalism ⓘ
follows	The Process of the Circulation of Capital ⓘ linked to: The Process of Circulation of Capital
genre	Marxist theory ⓘ political economy ⓘ
hasInfluenced	20th-century economic thought ⓘ Marxist economics ⓘ linked to: Marxism critical theory of capitalism ⓘ
hasSubtitle	Volume III of Capital ⓘ linked to: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
isPartOf	Marx's critique of political economy ⓘ
mainTopic	capitalism ⓘ capitalist competition ⓘ capitalist crises ⓘ capitalist production ⓘ commercial profit ⓘ credit system ⓘ distribution of surplus value ⓘ fictitious capital ⓘ ground rent ⓘ interest ⓘ interest-bearing capital ⓘ profit ⓘ rate of profit ⓘ reproduction of the total social capital ⓘ surplus value ⓘ tendency of the rate of profit to fall ⓘ
originalLanguage	German ⓘ
partOf	Das Kapital ⓘ
precedes	none ⓘ
seriesOrdinal	third volume of Das Kapital ⓘ
subjectOf	Marxist economic analysis ⓘ
volumeNumber	3 ⓘ
workOf	Karl Marx ⓘ

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