This paper attempts to clarify how the European economic crisis from 2007 onwards can be understood from the perspective of a Marxian monetary theory of value that emphasizes in-trinsic, structural flaws regarding capitalist reproduction. Chapter two provides an empirical description of the...

This paper attempts to clarify how the European economic crisis from 2007 onwards can be understood from the perspective of a Marxian monetary theory of value that emphasizes in-trinsic, structural flaws regarding capitalist reproduction. Chapter two provides an empirical description of the...

The Cambridge Capital Controversy is a long-lasting dispute over the validity and internal coherence of neoclassical theory. A number of textbooks are available to help teach the controversy. Some of these textbooks contain exercises and numeric examples. An important part of the controversy...

This paper explores the importance of the exercise of private and public power in the execution of contracts and defense of property rights at the local labor market level in the United States. Using Census microdata, we examine the rise of "Guard Labor"---classified as individuals employed in...

Objective – This paper pursues an approach of archaeological meditations into human achievement and its fruits; meditations in search of the possibility and the means of conditioning innovations in a manner that can harness these innovations to make “sustainable development” a reality that...

In classical and Marxian political economy economic advancement takes place in stages of development. These stages are characterized by different functional distributions of income. In this paper we show that the Cobb-Douglas Production Function is the only production function which has the...

Italy's labor productivity in market services has declined since 2000, underperforming manufacturing and peer European countries, especially in strongly regulated sectors. A model of monopolistic competition is used to identify which service sectors would benefit more from removing entry and/or...

This paper seeks to illuminate the uncertainty in official GDP per capita measuresusing auxiliary data. Using satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an additional measurementof true GDP per capita, we provide a statistical framework, in which the error inofficial GDP per capita may depend on the...

In the last few decades there has been little convergence of income levels in Latin America with those in the United States, in sharp contrast with both emerging Asia and emerging Europe. This paper argues that lack of convergence was not the result of low investment. Latin America is poorer...

A large number of studies show mixed results concerning the macro-economic significance of interpersonal trust. This study suggests that the dominant framework previously used, Barro-type growth regressions, is not adequate. Instead, this study uses the Solow productivity framework to study the...