The Inner Life of Value:  Exploring Fundamental Premises in Marxist and Classical Political Economy

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dc.contributor.authorGignoux, Hannah Roseen
dc.contributor.committeechairGill, Bikrum Singhen
dc.contributor.committeememberDaggett, Caraen
dc.contributor.committeememberPula, Besniken
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-17T08:00:12Zen
dc.date.available2022-06-17T08:00:12Zen
dc.date.issued2022-06-16en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis will examine some of the basic principles of Classical and Marxian Political Economy. At the center of the project is an examination of two distinct but related subjects: 1) value and 2) internal critique. I begin with a broad overview of the methodological and theoretical principles integral to the study of Marxian political economy and highlight its link to the content of Marx's work. I demonstrate the riven-ness of the concept of value throughout the thesis and show that this riven-ness is integral to rather than accidental to the concept of value itself. In essence, I propose that in order to fully grasp how Marx is taken up by political economists, feminists, ecologists, and critical race scholars in order to understand exploitation and oppression, it is necessary to return to the basic premises of political economy as the foundation of many of these theories.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralValue is a concept which carries with it many different meanings and connotations. It is central to our everyday language and to various fields of study. This thesis aims to examine value and its role as a fundamental concept in the history of economics. To do this, I map out how value emerges as a crucial category in the work of economic theorists. By carefully following these theorists, I seek to uncover what they call attention to and what remains hidden within their work. Another crucial part of this thesis is how to investigate, how to read, and how to think. While the content of the thesis is focused around "value" and what constitutes value, a larger project consumes it. I propose that in order to get to the substance of value, how we think directly affects what we think.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:34908en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/110825en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectPolitical Economyen
dc.subjectValueen
dc.subjectCritiqueen
dc.subjectMethoden
dc.subjectDialecticsen
dc.subjectEconomic theoryen
dc.subjectClassical Political Economyen
dc.subjectMarxist Political Economyen
dc.titleThe Inner Life of Value:  Exploring Fundamental Premises in Marxist and Classical Political Economyen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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