The Logical Foundations of the Marxian Theory of Value

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1 The Prototype of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value.
• 1.1 Marx’s concept of value.
• 1.2 Description of the prototype.
• 1.3 Mathematical modeling of the prototype.
• 2 The Problem of Foundations.
• 2.1 The sense and import of the Law of value.
• 2.2 The problem of generalizing the prototype.
• 2.3 A concise history of MTV.
• 3 Structures and Representations.
• 3.1 Structures.
• 3.2 Representations.
• 4 The Dialectical Method.
• 4.1 Hegel’s dialectical method.
• 4.2 The Marxian “inversion” of Hegel’s dialectic.
• 4.3 A new formulation of dialectic.
• 5 Abstract Labor.
• 5.1 Krause’s treatment of abstract labor.
• 5.2 The concept of abstract labor.
• 5.3 The existence of abstract labor.
• 5.4 The representation of abstract labor.
• 6 The General Axioms of the Theory.
• 6.1 A general market economy.
• 6.2 The Fundamental Marxian Theorem.
• 7 General Reproducibility.
• 8 The Prototype Revisited.
• 8.1 The Leontief economy.
• 8.2 Mathematical modeling of the Leontief economy.
• Notes.
• Name Index.