This paper was presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, held at Bogacizi University, Istanbul, from 19 to 21 May 2011.

On the analysis of Varianٳ textbook on Microeconomics, which I take to be a representative of the standard view, I argue that Varian provides two contrary notions of profit, namely, profit as surplus over cost and profit as cost. Varian starts by defining profit as the surplus of revenues over...

This paper was presented at the VI STOREP Conference, held at the University of Florence, Italy, 3rd and 4th June 2009.

This paper was presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET).

In this paper, I examine Varianٳ treatment of rent in his textbook on Microeconomics. I argue that he holds contradictory conceptions: sometimes rent is defined as surplus over cost whereas sometimes it is defined as cost, as the opportunity cost of fixed factors. I start by arguing that the...

This paper was presented at the Seminars of the Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis I, University of the Basque Country in September 2004.

This paper analyzes the debate between Ohlin and Keynes on the question as to whether Germany was able to make the payments specified in the Dawes Plan. Keynes argued that Germany was able to collect the money but unable to transfer it to the victors because there existed an insurmountable...

In this paper, I examine the treatment of competitive profit of professor Varian in his textbook on Microeconomics, as a representative of the ܭodernݠpost-Marxian view on competitive profit. I show how, on the one hand, Varian defines profit as the surplus of revenues over cost and, thus, as a...

I contrast the theoretical foundation of profit maximization of Mas-Colell, Whinston and Greenٳ ܍icroeconomicsݠagainst that provided by Scitovsky in a paper of 1943. Whereas Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green try to show that profit maximization can be derived from utility maximization, Scitovsky...