This paper defends The Transformation of Values into Prices on the Basis of Random Systems, published in EIER, by answering to the Comments made in the same journal by Professors Mori, Morioka and Yamazaki. The clarifications mainly concern the justification of the randomness assumptions, the...

Marx's justification of his theory of surplus value in the face of unequal compositions of capital, by interpreting total profits as a redistribution of surplus value, is not correct in general. However, it is shown here that the equality holds if the input matrices are random and the labour...

Karl Marx wurde vor 200 Jahren geboren. Viele Aspekte seiner Kapitalismusanalyse haben einen Kern, der auch heute noch aktuell sein könnte: Globalisierung und „Ausbeutung“, Widerspruch zwischen Kapital und Arbeit, ungleiche Einkommensverteilung, Krisenhaftigkeit des Kapitalismus und...

The paper summarises the main results of the Cambridge controversy on capital theory and discusses its actual relevance. The paradoxes that had first been regarded as most relevant (reswitching and reverse capital deepening) have turned out to be empirically rare, and this can be explained...