First written in 1914, with this 1927 publication being its first English translation of Bukharin’s critique of the ‘Austrian School’ of economists. Full online text here.
The Economic Theory of the Leisure Class by Nikolaĭ Bukharin. International Publishers, New York. 1927.
Contents: Preface to the Russian Edition, Preface to the American Edition, Introduction, Chapter I. Methodological Foundations of the Theory of Marginal Utility and of Marxism, 1. Objectivism and subjectivism in political economy, 2. The historical point of view and the unhistorical point of view, 3. The point of view of production, and the point of view of consumption, 4. Conclusions, Chapter II. The Theory of Value, 1. The importance of the problem of value, 2. Subjective and objective value; definitions, 3. Utility and value (subjective), 4. The measure of value and the unit of value, Chapter III. The Theory of Value (continued), 1. The theory of utility by substitution, 2. The amount of marginal utility and the quantity of commodities, 3. The fixing of the value of commodities in various types of consumption; Subjective exchange value; Money, 4. The value of complementary goods (the Theory of Imputation), 5. The value of productive commodities. Production costs, 6. Conclusions, Chapter IV. The Theory of Profit, 1. The importance of the problem of distribution; Formulation of the question, 2. The concept of capital; “Capital” and “profit” in the “Socialist” State, 3. General description of the capitalist production, Chapter V. The Theory of Profit (continued), 1. Two causes for the overestimation of present good, a. The difference in the relation between needs and the means for their fulfilment at various times, b. The systematic underestimation of future goods, 2. The third cause for the overestimation of present goods; Their technical superiority, 3. The subsistence fund; The demand for present goods and the supply of such goods; The origin of profit, Chapter VI. Conclusion, APPENDIX. The Policy of Theoretical Conciliation, 1. Tugan-Baranovsky’s formula, 2. Tugan-Baranovsky’s “logic”, 3. Tugan-Baranovsky’s fundamental fallacy Notes, Bibliography.
PDF of original book: https://books.google.com/books/download/The_Economic_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class.pdf?id=NxWluubSKYwC&output=pdf
