Chapter 1: The Commodity
Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange (1:28:17)

The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for both the Penguin Classics and Vintage Books editions of Capital.

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These lectures were the inspiration for the book: A Companion to Marx’s Capital published by Verso in 2010.


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