This article presents the marginal approach to the labour theory of value. The difficulties of the classical and Marxian labour theory of value are overcome when labour value is understood as marginal labour value analogously to marginal cost. Marginal labour value is the reciprocal 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 article starts with definitions of value and profit and constructs a new interpretation of the economic crisis. Exchange of goods stems from different people's different judgments on the value of goods, and twice exchanges of goods lead to commercial profits. Production profit is...

This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...

This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...

It is frequently believed, in a quite schizophrenic fashion, that a theory of value must just solve the question of "relative prices" (a microeconomic problem), being mainly the theory of money the piece needed for determining the absolute or monetary level of prices (a macroeconomic problem)....

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...

Pasinetti (1988) constructs ‘vertically hyper-integrated labor coe fficients' for an economic model that exhibits unbalanced growth. The hyper-integrated coe fficients additionally include the labor required to produce investment goods as part of the labor cost of reproducing commodities. In a...

There is globally a debate going on about issues of economic development and how to measure it. The system of national accounts with the gross domestic product (GDP) as its core indicator has become criticized because of measuring the wellbeing of peoples in different countries improperly. The...

This paper introduces the concept of marginal labour value in the framework of perfect competition and shows that prices are proportional to marginal labour values. By this marginal analysis overcomes the classical contradiction of labour commanded and labour embodied. Furthermore the curves of...