From its constitution in the 17th century as the discipline of quantitative social relations, economics has tried to be a science similar to that of natura and for that reason, for some people, it appears as a “hard science.” To reach this goal, theoretic economists sought to build a natural...

The article develops the hypothesis according to which modern theory of prices fails to prove that the prices achieved in a situation of competitive equilibrium are actually market prices. The authors begins from the two main results of the modern theory of prices, the existence of prices of...

Se habla recurrentemente de una crisis de la Teoría Económica. Nos parece posible sostener que el fundamento analítico general de todas las crisis posibles de la Economía Política reside en la incompatibilidad entre los objetivos asignados a la teoría económica -lo que se espera de ella-...

The common presentation of political economy as composed of various currents (for example, depending on the theory of value adopted) obscures a more basic distinction: that between real analysis and “monetary analysis". The former starts out from bundles of goods and hence requires a theory of...

This article presents a recent interpretation of ricardian price theory. Some of Piero Sraffa's contributions allow us to show some important equivocations in Karl Marx's reading of Ricardo's theory and, also, the analytical brake between the marxist approach and its classical predecessor....