ciencias economicas

surplus value, intend to explain essential and particular features of the capitalist economy in specific times of history. Taking into account the enormous range of possible research, this is done through a selection of a group of authors, from which it is possible to find the first formulations of the concept, its development and the use of the concepts of surplus and surplus value to show specific features from the period of time the authors belong to, of the capitalist economy and its evolution, such as: the accumulation of capital, the big company, the growth of the retailing sector, the renting character, and the financial dimension of the contemporary capitalism among other aspects. Therefore, since its origins with the physiocrats, going from the classic economists, such as Marx, and the so called Marxist authors, to the contemporary authors such as Sraffa, Kalecki e Robinson this work aims at examining how the surplus concept and the surplus value are embedded in the theoretical conceptualizations of these authors, to analyze the capitalism. This work intends to show, therefore, that among this diversity of approaches, the surplus concept and the surplus value, are fundamental categories to the analysis of the capitalist economy. Keywords: Surplus, Surplus Value, Profit, Accumulation of Capital, Capitalist Economy. SUMÁRIO 1 INTRODUÇÃO................................................................................................10 2 OS…