IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-37835-3_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Theory of Profit

In: An Outline of the Dialectic of Capital

Author

Listed:
  • Thomas T. Sekine

    (Aichi Gakuin University)

Abstract

Value and surplus value can be realised only by the sale of the commodity which embodies them. It is this fact that underlies the principle of the distribution of surplus value in the form of profit. Even industrial capital must purchase all of its productive elements as commodities, and sell its own product again as a commodity. Since all such transactions occur in the capitalist market, the operation of the latter must now be studied in explicit terms. The activities of industrial capital must, in other words, be examined as they appear in the capitalist market. For industrial capital, this represents a return to the standpoint and perspective of its infancy when it first evolved from merchant capital.

Suggested Citation

  • Thomas T. Sekine, 1997. "Theory of Profit," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: An Outline of the Dialectic of Capital, chapter 7, pages 3-69, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37835-3_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230378353_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37835-3_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.