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The complex exposition of the concept of economic crisis in Capital and its preparatory manuscripts gave rise to different interpretations about the causes and modalities of crises themselves. Are their causes chronic under-consumption, inter-sectoral disproportionality or a fall in the profit rate? Are they merely possible or absolutely inevitable? Jorge Grespan’s work renews these traditional debates by treating the concept of crisis as the negative of the concept of capital. By means of a thoroughgoing exposition of Marx’s masterwork, his book reconstitutes the steps by which Capital’s exposition progressively enriches its content and form. To this end, dialectical categories such as measurelessness and relative necessity are mobilised and developed.

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Jorge Grespan, studied Economics and History at the Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil, and is Professor of Theory of History since 1985 at the same university. He has published many articles, books, and book chapters in Portuguese and Spanish. In English he published “About the Beginning and End of Capitalism”, in Marx's Capital. An Unfinishable Project?, Leiden, Brill, 2018, and “The renewal of Marxist Historiography through the Study of Enslavement. The Case of Brazil”, in What is Left of Marxism, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020.

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