关键词: MEGA版《资本论》, 资本主义经济危机, 利润率下降规律, 货币资本运动

Abstract: Japanese scholars have dedicated over a century to studying the manuscripts related to Capital, making significant theoretical contributions. In recent years, their innovative explorations on the MEGA edition of Capital have distinguished them globally, characterized by deepening theoretical insights through textual analysis and directly addressing modern capitalist economic issues, particularly systemic capitalist economic crises, thereby providing new materials and perspectives for contemporary capitalist studies. In response to academic debates on the relationship between money capital and economic crises under the framework of the standard threevolume Capital, scholars such as Teinosuke tani and Korefumi Miyata have utilized the MEGA edition to examine overproduction crises through the lens of the process of social reproduction, the law of the tendency of the average rate of profit to fall, and the movement of credit and fictitious capital. Their work reveals the root causes of capitalist economic crises through “analysis of internal contradictions”, “purification hypothesis”, and “dialectical equilibrium analysis”, while also exposing the essence of capitalist production through the characteristics of surplus value generation in the digital age. Japanese scholars emphasize the significance of the study on the MEGA edition by integrating intellectual history and reflections on Japans “Lost Three Decades” of economic stagnation. However, their research on capitalist economic crises exhibits theoretical limitations, such as the recognitions of theories for the ownership of means of production and the relationship between the law of the profit rate and economic growth theories, which remain subject to scholarly debate.

Key words: the MEGA edition of Capital, capitalist economic crises, law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, movement of money capital