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.