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In Law of Value and Theories of Value, Tiago Camarinha Lopes presents the genesis of Karl Marx's understanding of the law of value by showing that the labor theory of value of utopian socialists and the utility theory of value of the Marginalist Revolution are subject to equal criticism by Marx's Critique of Political Economy. Following Marx's distinction between classical and vulgar political economy, Camarinha explains the difference between a reactionary and a progressive strand in the world of non-Marxian economics. Commonly portrayed as a dated work targeting the general framework of economic thought of the 19th century, Das Kapital appears here as the blueprint for the ongoing construction of economic science of the working class in any period of History.
List of contents
Acknowledgement
List of Figures
Introduction
1 The Independence of the Science of Value
2 The Law of Value in Classical Political Economy
1 The Law of Value as the Invisible Hand
2 The Law of Value as Exchange of Equivalents
3 The Law of Value as Contradiction between Value and Price
3 The End of Classical Political Economy Value or Price?
4 Value The Naturalization of the Labor Theory of Value in Utopian Socialism
1 Appropriation of Political Economy by the Labor Movement
2 The Laborer's Theory of Value of Utopian Socialists
3 The Right to the Full Results of Labor
4 The Naturalization of the Labor Theory of Value
5 Desideratum of Utopian Socialism: Simple Commodity Production
5 Price The Naturalization of the Utility Theory of Value in the Marginalist Revolution
1 Seizure of Political Economy by Capital
2 The Consumer's Theory of Value in Jevons, Menger and Walras
3 Output as a Relation between Human and Nature
4 The Naturalization of the Utility Value Theory
5 Desideratum of the Marginalist Revolution: Simple Commodity Production
6 Marx's Path to Political Economy
7 The Law of Value in Marx's Critique of Political Economy
1 Marx's Theory of the Commodity
1 The Law of Value as Unity of Value and Price
2 The Law of Value as Lack of Control over Economic Reproduction
3 The Law of Value as an Objective Phenomenon
8 The Law of Value under the Rule of Capitalist Economic Planning
1 Capitalist Economic Planning
2 The Aim of Capital
Final Remarks
References
Index
About the author
Tiago Camarinha Lopes is Professor of Economics at Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil. His other publications on value theory include Reviving the Cambridge Controversy by Combining Marx with Sraffa and Technical or political? The socialist economic calculation debate .
Summary
In Law of Value and Theories of Value, Tiago Camarinha Lopes presents the genesis of Karl Marx's understanding of the law of value by showing that the labor theory of value of utopian socialists and the utility theory of value of the Marginalist Revolution are subject to equal criticism by Marx's Critique of Political Economy.
Following Marx's distinction between classical and vulgar political economy, Camarinha explains the difference between a reactionary and a progressive strand in the world of non-Marxian economics. Commonly portrayed as a dated work targeting the general framework of economic thought of the 19th century, Das Kapital appears here as the blueprint for the ongoing construction of economic science of the working class in any period of History.
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