Acknowledgements vii Note on the translation ix Introduction to the translation 1 FINANCE CAPITAL Preface 21 Part 1{emsp}Money and credit {ensp}1 The necessity of money 27 {ensp}2 Money in the circulation process 37 {ensp}3 Money as a means of payment. Credit money. 60 {ensp}4 Money in the circulation of industrial capital 67 {ensp}5 The banks and industrial credit 82 {ensp}6 The rate of interest 99 Part II{emsp}The mobilization of capital. Fictitious capital {ensp}7 The joint-stock company 107 {ensp}8 The stock exchange 130 {ensp}9 The commodity exchange 151 10 Bank capital and bank profit 170 Part III{emsp}Finance capital and the restriction of free competition 11 Surmounting the obstacles to the equalization of rates of profit 183 12 Cartels and trusts 204 13 The capitalist monopolies and commerce 208 14 The capitalist monopolies and the banks. The transformation of capital into finance capital 223 15 Price determination by the capitalist monopolies and the historical tendency of finance capital 227 Part IV{emsp}Finance capital and crises 16 The general conditions of crises 239 17 The causes of crises 257 18 Credit conditions in the course of the business cycle 267 19 Money capital and productive capital during the depression 282 20 Changes in the character of crises. Cartels and crises 288 Part V{emsp}The economic policy of finance capital 21 The reorientation of commercial policy 301 22 The export of capital and the struggle for economic territory 311 23 Finance capital and classes 337 24 The conflict over the labour contract 351 25 The proletariat and imperialism 364 Notes 371 Bibliography I The principal writings of Rudolf Hilferding 438 II Works on Hilferding 439 III Other works mentioned in the Introduction and in tp;lt;/P> 11 Surmounting the obstacles to the equalization of rates of profit 183 12 Cartels and trusts 204 13 The capitalist monopolies and commerce 208 14 The capitalist monopolies and the banks. The transformation of capital into finance capital 223 15 Price determination by the capitalist monopolies and the historical tendency of finance capital 227 Part IV{emsp}Finance capital and crises 16 The general conditions of crises 239 17 The causes of crises 257 18 Credit conditions in the course of the business cycle 267 19 Money capital and productive capital during the depression 282 20 Changes in the character of crises. Cartels and crises 288 Part V{emsp}The economic policy of finance capital 21 The reorientation of commercial policy 301 22 The export of capital and the struggle for economic territory 311 23 Finance capital and classes 337 24 The conflict over the labour contract 351 25 The proletariat and imperialism 364 Notes 371 Bibliography I The principal writings of Rudolf Hilferding 438 II Works on Hilferding 439 III Other works mentioned in the Introduction and in t export of capital and the struggle for economic territory 311 23 Finance capital and classes 337 24 The conflict over the labour contract 351 25 The proletariat and imperialism 364 Notes 371 Bibliography I The principal writings of Rudolf Hilferding 438 II Works on Hilferding 439 III Other works mentioned in the Introduction and in the text 440 Index 445.