Kuruma Samezō. In Pursuit of Marx's Theory of Crisis

Leiden: Brill, 2024. — 492 p. — (Historical Materialism 314).Karl Marx wrote extensively on crisis but never presented a coherent theory of crisis. Samezō Kuruma, a Japanese Marxian economist, sets out to complete Marx’s unfinished theory, drawing on Capital and other works. This volume gathers all of Kuruma’s writings related to crisis.Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction • Michael Schauerte
History and Overview of Crisis Theory
An Introduction to the Study of Crisis
An Inquiry into Marx’s Theory of Crisis
Addendum to ‘An Inquiry into Marx’s Theory of Crisis’: A Response to the Criticism of Kōzō Uno
An Overview of Marx’s Theory of Crisis
Marx-Lexikon zur politischen Ökonomie
Marx-Lexikon Crisis I: Contents and Discussion
Marx-Lexikon Crisis II: Contents and Discussion
Marx-Lexikon Crisis III: Contents and Discussion
Marx-Lexikon Crisis IV: Contents and Discussion
Reviews, Discussions, and Polemics
An Evaluation of Condliffe’s Analysis of Crisis
The Contradictions of Modern Wealth
Capital Accumulation and the Depreciation Fund for Fixed Capital
Are Prices and Wages in a Vicious Circle?
Prices, Currency, and Demand
A Few Problems Concerning Postwar Theories of Crisis
Yasuma Takada’s Theory of Accumulation (Part 1 and 2)
Method for Unfolding a Systematic Theory of Crisis: A Response to Ryōzō Tomizuka (Part 1 and 2)
Bibliography
Index