This paper criticises the generally accepted definition of labour value as first put forward by Nobuo Okishio as seriously faulty and in contradiction with the theory of cost. The shortcomings of this Cold War Definition of Labour Value are so obvious that it is difficult to understand how an...

This paper uses the mode of production of the hunter-gatherers as a background to explain basic economic concepts, in particular the meaning of the labour theory of value and it's relationship to optimization of resources. A proof of the marginal value theorem is presented. A new term is...

This paper is the first part of a Marxian critique of the theory of the firm, focusing on the analysis of labour values. Starting from Adam Smith's example of the deer hunter marginal analysis is introduced, culminating in the derivation of the Labour Value Function as the supply curve of the...

This paper is the first part of a Marxian critique of the theory of the firm, focusing on the analysis of labour values. Starting from Adam Smith's example of the deer hunter marginal analysis is introduced, culminating in the derivation of the Labour Value Function as the supply curve of the...

This paper presents the microeconomic partial and general economic equilibrium analysis of monopoly power in terms of labour values. In the partial analysis it is shown that the monopolistic mark-ups above marginal cost do not constitute labour values but real bubbles of values which prevent the...

Hermann Heinrich Gossen is generally known as the predecessor of Walras, Menger and Jevons in preparing modern economic analysis. What is generally not known is his Fundamental Theorem as a marginal approach to the labour theory of value. This paper presents his Fundamental Theorem in terms of...

This paper presents a modern response to the problem imposed by Marx in Capital in 1867, “to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society” and to provide a vision on how, on the basis of this law of motion the transformation of the capitalist mode of production to the socialist mode...

The classical labor theory of value generates two well-known antinomies: Ricardo's problem of an invariable measure of value and Marx's transformation problem. I show that both antinomies are generated by the same category-mistake of expecting a technical measure of labor cost to function as a...

The aim of this essay is to join the discussion on an important issue in economic theory like is the money. For this, we shall analyse an important theory in economics; this theory was proposed by Karl Marx, where the money has a great importance to understand the development of the economic...

This paper is the first part of a Marxian critique of the theory of the firm, focusing on the analysis of labour values. Starting from Adam Smith's example of the deer hunter, marginal analysis is introduced, culminating in the derivation of the Labour Value Function, as the supply curve of the...