What does political economy study and how? : Some history -- Social production and its two aspects -- The stages of socio-economic progress -- Economic laws -- Method of analysis -- Is the class approach in political economy compatible with it as a science? -- Section I. The economic system of capitalism : Capitalism: Origins and development : The main difficulty in understanding the historical process -- The system of feudal privileges -- The role of the simple commodity economy -- The origination of capitalism and the stages of its development in industry -- Socio-economic revolutions and the rise of industry in the 19th century -- The starting point for analysing capitalism : The economic cell of the capitalist society -- Commodities and their properties -- the secret of the labour incorporated in commodities -- Money and its functions -- The mechanism of capitalist exploitation : What is surplus value? -- Profit and profitability -- Economic incentives funds -- To each according to his work : Labour under socialism -- Wages -- Nominal (cash) and real wages -- The dynamics and proportions of expanded reproduction : Reproduction -- The national income and its use -- Rate and efficiency of accumultion -- Group A and group B -- How is the national economy run? : The objective nature of economic development and conscious management of the economy -- Democratic centralism -- Working people's participation in administration and management -- The organisational structure of economic administration and management -- The state budget -- The credit mechanism of economic administration -- Regulation of the currency -- Socialist integration : Cooperation and mutual assistance instead of competition and oppression -- International division of labour -- From cooperation to integration -- Joint planning activity

1. Economics
2. Capitalism
3. Communist countries -- Economic conditions