ABSTRACT
Karl Marx made a contribution of lasting service to the theory of eco-
nomics when he drew attention to the problem of the reproduction of
the entire social capital. It is significant that in the history of economics
we find only two attempts at an exact exposition of this problem: one
by Quesney, the father of the Physiocrats, at its very inception; and in
its final stage this attempt by Marx. In the interim, the problem was
ever with bourgeois economics. Yet bourgeois economists have never
been fully aware of this problem in its pure aspects, detached from
related and intersecting minor problems; they have never been able to
formulate it precisely, let alone solve it. Seeing that the problem is of
paramount importance, their attempts may all the same help us to
some understanding of the trend of scientific economics.
