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Written before the collapse of the socialist system in Eastern Europe, this book offers an analysis of the Marxian labour theory of value, Marx's main scientific legacy. After reconstructing the ""prototype"" of this theory - which is the theory as it was left by Marx himself in ""Capital"" - the author proceeds to a careful and detailed analysis of its foundational problems, taking into account Boehm-Bawerk's important criticisms. After introducing advanced contemporary formal tool the author proceeds to a discussion of the dialectical method, just in order to tackle the foundational problems of the theory. He provides a definition of abstract labour and then proceeds to prove the existence of a measurement of abstract labour - for instance the existence of numerical labour-values. Using this result, the author provides axiomatic foundations for the theory of value and then proves the existance of a Marxian competitive equilibrium, which is tantamount to the proof of the possibility of reproduction for a capitalist economy. The author finishes the book by showing how the problems of the prototype are solved, by reconstructing the Leonitief model of the labour theory of value on the new logical basis. This book should be of interest to philosophers of science and economics and those interested in the scientific legacy of Karl Marx.

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Author:   Adolfo García de la Sienra
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1992 ed.
Volume:   223
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.150kg
ISBN:  

9780792317784

ISBN 10:   0792317785
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 June 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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