Knowledge-intensive commodities

Content and form of its value

Authors

  • Gastón Caligaris Universidad Nacional de Quilmes / CONICET https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7672-2390
  • Guido Starosta Universidad Nacional de Quilmes / CONICET

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46661/rev.int.pensampolit..8547

Keywords:

cognitive commodities, intellectual property rights, law of value, intellectual labour

Abstract

The “microelectronics revolution” and the consequent proliferation of so-called New Information and Communication Technologies have coalesced in the contemporary centrality of knowledge-intensive commodities. This phenomenon has led many Marxist scholars to call into question the applicability of the law of value to this kind of commodities. Against this backdrop, this article critically examines the arguments put forward in that recent literature and offers an alternative approach to the determination of the content and form of the value “cognitive commodities”. 

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Author Biographies

Gastón Caligaris, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes / CONICET

Doctor por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Docente e Investigador en la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ) y miembro del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), en Argentina. Sus intereses de investigación se centran en la crítica de la economía política, la producción agraria y la relación entre economía y política en la sociedad argentina contemporánea. Es coautor, con Guido Starosta, de Trabajo, Valor y Capital (UNQ, 2017), Value, Money and Capital (Routledge, 2023), y coeditor de Sujeto capital - Sujeto revolucionario (ITACA, 2020). Ha publicado diversos artículos y capítulos de libros en editoriales y revistas académicas nacionales e internacionales.

Guido Starosta, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes / CONICET

Doctor por la Universidad de Warwick (UK), Docente e Investigador en la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ) y miembro del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), en Argentina. Sus intereses de investigación se centran en la crítica de la economía política, teoría del valor, y la economía política del desarrollo. Actualmente investiga las formas económicas y políticas de la acumulación de capital en Argentina. Es autor de Marx's Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity (Brill, 2016) y coeditor de The New International Division of Labour (Palgrave, 2016) y In Marx's Laboratory (Brill, 2013). Su libro más reciente es Value, Money and Capital (Routledge, 2023), en coautoría con Gastón Caligaris y Alejandro Fitzsimons. Ha publicado numerosos artículos y capítulos de libros en editoriales y revistas académicas nacionales e internacionales.

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2023-12-22

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Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2023). Knowledge-intensive commodities: Content and form of its value. International Journal of Political Thought, 18(18), 69–81. https://doi.org/10.46661/rev.int.pensampolit.8547

Issue

Vol. 18 (2023)

Section

Monográfico 1

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