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А. Куприн. The General Theory of Capital: Self-Reproduction of Humans Through Increasing Meanings
Introduction
Part one. Simple self-reproduction
Chapter 1. Traditional society and simple consumption
1. Co-evolution of humans and meanings
Henrich-Popov bridge and the first needs trap
Material social abstraction in action
Needs, motives and emotions
The structure of culture
2. Uncertainty, selection and learning
Uncertainty and meaning
Populations under mixed selection
Evolution of learning
Meaning as a common language of all humans
3. Traditional choice and cumulative culture
Meanings, counterfacts and choices
Traditional society and the accumulation of experience
Meanings, genes and memes
Simple consumption and unfolding of needs
Chapter 2. Simple production and necessary activity
1. Development of production from consumption
Agricultural evolution and increasing meanings
Quality and quantity of meanings
Figurae as elements of meaning
2. Complexity of meaning
Minimal subject and minimal action
Is the watchmaker blind, is culture left to chance?
Hard problem of subject
3. Division, addition and multiplication of meanings
Activity and efficiency
Socio-cultural order and justice
Active power and freedom
Chapter 3. Simple circulation: surplus activity and exchange value
1. The origin of exchange value and money
Cooperative, administrative and competitive circulation
Utility and use value
Use value, exchange value and money
Money and prices
2. Profit and interest
Surplus activity and its norm
Possession, investment and profit
Property, debt and interest
3. Limits of simple self-reproduction
Adaptive efficiency and the race against uncertainty
Evolutionary rationality and the limits of traditional thinking
The rise of traditional complexity and its limits
Part two. Expanded self-reproduction
Chapter 4. Commercial society and expanded consumption
1. Commercial revolution and system-society
The third needs trap and the consumer society
The commercial revolution creates a system-society
“Two hands” of the system-society
Hoarding, profit and capital
2. Active power and capital
Commercialization of active power
Expanded consumption is the production of labor power
Real and nominal capital
Capital and property
3. Population growth and increasing meanings
Added value as a source of income
Commercial revolution and population growth
Kapitsa–Metcalfe effect
Counternorms and rational choice
Chapter 5. Expanded production and surplus value
1. Expanded production and capital accumulation
The capitalist system and its methods
The long industrial revolution
The race for profit and the growing scale of production
The model of capitalist production
2. (Re)production of the capitalist order
Value of capital and quantity of capital
Surplus capital appropriates interest
(Dis)order as a source of surplus value
Productive capital, enterprise costs and the rate of profit
Transformation problem and reverse capital deepening
3. Capital and society
Capital and relative surplus population
Is there a tendency of the rate of profit to fall?
Two sides of social capital
Revolution and socialist calculation
Chapter 6. Expanded circulation: profit and capital
1. Disequilibrium of the triple decision
Value and triple decision
Interest on capital and entrepreneurial profit
Disequilibrium and economic cycles
2. Complexity of production and forms of circulation
Market, plan and entrepreneurship
Corporate capitalism
Increasing returns and uneven development
3. Limits of expanded self-reproduction
World complexity and world currency
Reducing relative surplus population
Reverse risk sharing and financialization
The expansion of capital and its limits
Part three. Accustomed self-reproduction
Chapter 7. Entrepreneurial society and accustomed consumption
1. Demographic transition and consumption shift
Demographic conditions of accustomed self-reproduction
The fourth needs trap and the leisure society
Socially necessary individuals
2. Entrepreneurial society
Socialization and personalization of capital
Entrepreneurial counter-revolution creates complex-society
Risks and incomes in entrepreneurial society
3. Common order
Common choice and moral world
Keynes–Auzan trilemma
Gross product and gross reputation
Chapter 8. Accustomed production and entrepreneurial profit
1. Production at constant population
Dwindling reserves of expanded production
Tendencies of the profit rate and the interest rate to fall
Personalization of capital and the end of the interesting in-between
2. (Re)production of the common order
Accustomed production model and capital minimization
Corporations, property and possession
Does personalization lead to the emancipation of labor?
3. Artificial intelligence and idealization of production
Weak AI and distributed entrepreneurial networks
Industrialization and idealization
Hard problem of subject and strong AI
Chapter 9. Accustomed circulation: order and freedom
1. Politics of common markets
(Self)construction of markets
Common markets replace corporations
Common financial markets
2. Trajectories of accustomed self-reproduction
Uneven personalization process
Personalization of capital and state
Scenarios of accustomed self-reproduction
3. Limits of accustomed self-reproduction
Eschatology of surplus value
The society of humans and the desiring machines
Liberty or leisure
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