ch. 1. Introduction / Ben Fine -- ch. 2. The law of value in Ricardo and Marx / Geoffrey Pilling -- ch. 3. Production, circulation and value / Ira Gerstein -- ch. 4. Transformations of physical conditions of production : Steedman's economic metaphysics / Heiner Ganssmann -- ch. 5. On Marx's...

This book explores the origins and development of the labour theory of value, examining its emergence from the natural law philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth century to its domination of the classical school of economics