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This article using the principal components analysis identifies key industries and groups them into particular clusters. The data come from the US benchmark input-output tables of the years 2002, 2007, 2012 and the most recently published input-output table of the year 2019. We observe some...
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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). But...
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In the standard Okishio-Morishima approach, the existence of profits is proved to be equivalent to the exploitation of labor. Yet, it can also be proved that the existence of profits is equivalent to the “exploitation†of any good. Labor and commodity exploitation are just different...
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Production prices are those exchange-values which, if adopted, put each industry in the conditions to repeat its production process. In this sense they appear as necessary prices. This notion is here compared with that of ‘just’ price, studied by the older moral philosophers (more so than by...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to expand and further pursue the quest on value transfer in trade. The reason is that the assessment of the cause, the source and the mechanism of value transfer in trade may reveal the rationale upon which the observed and long-lasting differences in...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of Marx's theory of exploitation built on the standard interpretation of the value of labour power. The relationship between the aggregate value rate of profit and the aggregate price rate of profit is studied and it is shown that the two rates coincide...
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Economic objects are objects which are produced by employing inputs and valued by applying a valuation procedure. In a market economy the valuation is performed by the price mechanism. Ideally market prices reflect the scarcity values corresponding to individual preferences. This article argues...
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The paper identifies as the root of the recent controversy in the theory of capital David Ricardo's finding that competitive prices and costs of production depend not only on the methods of production employed, but also on the wage rate (or rate of profits) and change with it. A consequence of...
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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)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009958838
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)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273889