"In recent years there have been a number of new developments in what came to be known as the "Capital Theory Debates". The debates took place mainly during the 1960s as a result of Piero Sraffa's critique of the neoclassical theory according to which the prices of factors of production directly...

Chapter 1: Empirical Input–Output Representations and Transmutations of Actual Economies -- Chapter 2: Controllability, Observability and Spectral Post-Construction of the Value Theory -- Chapter 3: The Capital Theory Debate and the Almost Uncontrollability and Unobservability of Actual...

This book develops a unified treatment of the income distribution–capital–value problems with respect to actual economies, and then gradually turns to the issues of effective demand and capitalist accumulation fluctuations from both political economy and economic policy perspectives. That...