DICKENS, EDWIN wrote:
> I think there is a good reason why Marx did not have a complete
> theory of the interest rate--namely, Marx's initial results
> prompted him to postpone further consideration of the issue
> until he got to his planned book on the state. <snip>
> After abandoning his initial efforts at determining the interest
> rate, Marx looked for its determinates in the factors mentioned by
> Trevor Evans, and eventually came upon the closed doors of the
> Bank of England. As soon as the trail led to the state, the
> research project fell down Marx's list of priorities. For Marx
> understood his book on the state to come at the end, and be
> the capstone, of his economic studies.
If you are referring to the 6-book-plan, the book on the state was not to
be the "capstone, of his economic studies."
The 6 book plan:
I. Capital
II. Landed-Property
III Wage-Labour
IV. The State
V. International Trade
VI. World Market and Crises
It is also unclear where Marx's proposed book on "Competition" (alluded to
in the drafts that became V3) would have fit in the above scheme.
There is, of course, much controversy surrounding the 6-book-plan. A good
general source is Allen Oakley's _The Making of Marx's Critical Theory: A
Bibliographical Analysis_ (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983).
Jerry
