Chapter 1: Empirical Input–Output Representations and Transmutations of Actual Economies -- Chapter 2: Controllability, Observability and Spectral Post-Construction of the Value Theory -- Chapter 3: The Capital Theory Debate and the Almost Uncontrollability and Unobservability of Actual...

This paper considers the pure labour theory of value and Böhm-Bawerk’s theory of capital as approximations of Sraffa’s model of single production, and tests them with data from the Symmetric Input-output Tables of the Finnish economy. The results show that (i) in comparison with the labour...

This paper argues that there exists an infinite number of numeraire-free measures (à la Steedman--Tomkins) of price--value deviation. On the empirical side it provides an illustration of those measures using input--output data from the Swedish economy. Copyright The Author 2010. Published by...