The purpose of this paper is to examine the critical arguments made by Burmeis- ter, Samuelson, and others, with respect to Sraffa (1960). Sraffa did not address these arguments, but they are relevant from the viewpoint of modern economic theories. In his arguments about the standard commodity,...

We propose to re-read Ricardo's theory of rent and its modern versions. Ricardo's dynamic approach follows the transformations of a long-term equilibrium with demand. Sraffa adopted the same framework while substituting a value criterion for a physical criterion to determine the incoming...

Using aggregate data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we analyze profitability in India’s organized manufacturing sector from 1982-83 to 2012-13. Over the whole period of analysis, the rate of profit grew at about 1 percent per annum, primarily driven by a rising share of profits. We use...

This paper surveys some of the quantitative empirical research in two areas of Marxist political economy: (a) Marxist national accounts, and (b) Marxist responses to the Sraffa-based critique of the 1970s. With respect to the first area, this paper explains the basic methodology underlying the...

El presente texto pretende establecer si, realmente, el pasado declive financiero representa una crisis" en la ciencia económica. Se analiza la importancia de la predicción tanto para la ciencia de la economía como para su profesión. Finalmente, hace un recorrido sobre la posibilidad y...

El presente trabajo versa sobre la actual crisis que vive el capitalismo mundial, las explicaciones que ha dado la burguesía de la misma y el contraste con la teoría marxista de la crisis, los planes de salvamento que al contrario de los que algunos pueden pensar es mas una continuación del...

El objetivo del presente ensayo es entrar en la discusión sobre de un tema tan especial en la teoría económica como es el dinero. Para esto, se analizará una teoría de vital importancia en el estudio de la economía, es decir, la teoría propuesta por Karl Marx, en la cual el dinero es de...

In the numerical examples used by Marx to study the reproduction of social capital, the economy reaches a steady growth path in only two periods. This surprising outcome has been interpreted by Marx’s readers as a property of a model which excludes any sort of economic crisis. This paper shows...

This paper analyses the Marxian theory of exploitation. A general axiomatic approach is developed which is appropriate to study the concept of exploitation - what it is and how it should be captured empirically. Two properties are presented that capture some fundamental Marxian insights. It is...

This paper analyses the equilibrium dynamics of exploitation and class in general accumulation economies with population growth, technical change, and bargaining by adopting a novel computational approach. First, the determinants of the emergence and persistence of exploitation and class are...