5 INTRODUCTION
  Part I
  METHODOLOGICAL AND HIST01CAL PREMISES
  1 THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE STUDY
11 § 1. The Basic Principles of the Analysis
19 § 2. The Capitalist Mode of Production and the World Market
30 § 3. The Role of the Colonial System in the History of the World Capitalist Economy
  2 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND CRISIS OF THE WORLD CAPITALIST ECONOMY
36 [introduction.]
36 § 1. The Pre-monopoly Stage of Capitalism
40 § 2. The Monopoly Stage of Capitalism
49 § 3. The World Capitalist Economy Today
  Part II
  THE MAIN TRENDS OF POSTWAR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  3 THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF PRODUCTION
67 §1. The Long-term Indicators of Production
77 § 2. The Factors and Social Consequences of Economic Growth
85 § 3. The Basic Branches of Production
92 § 4. The Sphere of Consumption of the Social Product
  4 SHIFTS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES
103 [introduction.]
105 § 1. Capitalist and Developing Countries
118 § 2. The Principal Productive Force of Society
137 § 3. The Industrial Centres of Capitalism
156 § 4. The Agrarian and Raw Material Producing Countries
  5 THE CYCLIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD CAPITALIST ECONOMY
179 § 1. The Problem
183 § 2. The Postwar Industrial Cycle
191 § 3. Synchronism and Asynchronism in the Evolution of the World Cycle
198 § 4. The Capitalist Market and World Cycle
209 § 5. Industry in the Modern Cycle
214 § 6. Can We Forecast World Economic Crises?
  Part III
  THE INDUSTRIAL AND PRIMARY COMMODITY BASE OF THE WORLD CAPITALIST ECONOMY
224 [introduction.]
  6 THE DETERMINING TRENDS IN THE POSTWAR DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURING
225 § 1. General Results
230 § 2. The Industrial Countries and Primary Commodity Producers
235 § 3. The Increasing Internationalisation of Production
  7 THE UNEVENNESS AND INSTABILITY OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
244 [introduction.]
244 § 1. Sectoral Structure
250 § 2. Scientific and Technical Progress and Labour Productivity
255 § 3. Changes in Regional Structure
  8 THE PRIMARY COMMODITY SPHERE: STRUCTURE OF PRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS
267 [introduction.]
268 § 1. Primary Commodities and Manufacturing
272 § 2. The Mining Industry and Farm Production
281 § 3. The Breakdown of the Traditional Structure of the International Division of Labour
  9 THE AGGRAVATION OF PRIMARY COMMODITY PROBLEMS AND WORLD PRICES
290 [introduction.]
292 § 1. The Historical Background of the Problem
296 § 2. Postwar Trends
301 § 3. National and World Prices
306 § 4. Monopoly Prices and the Liberated Countries
313 § 5. Imperialist Price Policy for Primary Commodities
323 CONCLUSION
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