'The 50th anniversary edition of Harcourt's classic text remains unchanged and as relevant as ever, but it comes with a new preface and two new afterwords, illuminating the contributions of this book and its author to the field of economics … Recommended.' R. H. Scott III, Choice

• Introduction; 1. Search for a will-o'-the-wisp: capital as a unit independent of distribution and prices; 2. Treacle, fossils and technical progress; 3. Solow on the rate of return: tease and counter-tease Preliminaries to the main bout; 4. A child's guide to the double-switching debate; 5. The rate of profits in capitalist society: whose finest hour? Introduction to the Afterwords; Afterword 1: Some notes on the life of a book Tiago Mata; Afterword 2: Who is (your) Geoff Harcourt? Avi Cohen.

'The 50th anniversary edition of Harcourt's classic text remains unchanged and as relevant as ever, but it comes with a new preface and two new afterwords, illuminating the contributions of this book and its author to the field of economics … Recommended.' R. H. Scott III, Choice

• Introduction; 1. Search for a will-o'-the-wisp: capital as a unit independent of distribution and prices; 2. Treacle, fossils and technical progress; 3. Solow on the rate of return: tease and counter-tease Preliminaries to the main bout; 4. A child's guide to the double-switching debate; 5. The rate of profits in capitalist society: whose finest hour? Introduction to the Afterwords; Afterword 1: Some notes on the life of a book Tiago Mata; Afterword 2: Who is (your) Geoff Harcourt? Avi Cohen.

'The 50th anniversary edition of Harcourt's classic text remains unchanged and as relevant as ever, but it comes with a new preface and two new afterwords, illuminating the contributions of this book and its author to the field of economics … Recommended.' R. H. Scott III, Choice

• Introduction; 1. Search for a will-o'-the-wisp: capital as a unit independent of distribution and prices; 2. Treacle, fossils and technical progress; 3. Solow on the rate of return: tease and counter-tease Preliminaries to the main bout; 4. A child's guide to the double-switching debate; 5. The rate of profits in capitalist society: whose finest hour? Introduction to the Afterwords; Afterword 1: Some notes on the life of a book Tiago Mata; Afterword 2: Who is (your) Geoff Harcourt? Avi Cohen.