The Commodity as Sign

Desmond McNeill ()
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Desmond McNeill: University of Oslo

Chapter 10 in Fetishism and the Theory of Value, 2021, pp 171-188 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract I argue that in seeking to comprehend value, the analogy with language extends remarkably far: precisely because economics is concerned not merely with material things but with social phenomena. I explore the analogy between value and meaning, between coins and words, drawing in part on writers from other disciplines, such as the semiotician de Saussure, some of whom have proposed the reverse analogy: from economics to linguistics.

Keywords: Marx; Value; Language; Analogy; Semiotics; Linguistics; De Saussure; Eco; Schaff; Synchrony/diachrony; Signifier/signified; Langue/parole (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56123-9_10

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