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...

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...

This paper examines the critical remarks that D’Orlando (2005) addresses to the classical theory of value based on ‘normal’ positions and briefly comments on the alternative dynamic analysis of short-run prices that he recommends. In particular, the first part refutes...

In the inheritance tax debates of the 1920s the proposals formulated by theItalian philosopher Eugenio Rignano occupied a prominent position. Since then, his contribution has been largely, although not completely, forgotten. This paper reviews the Rignano’s ideas by focusing upon its...

This paper resumes a source of instability of intertemporal equilibrium which was anticipated by Garegnani (2003) and criticized by Schefold (2004). The author points out that a non orthodox tâtonnement pricing must be accepted if the theory has to be consistent with the Jevons’s law of...

In order to extend the theory of value and the trade-off property to economic systems with lands, Ricardo reduced their study to that of productive systems without lands by considering the marginal agricultural methods. Sraffa generalised the analysis to prices of production and rejected the...

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...