This technical paper provides a definition of 'commodity content' in extended von Neumann-Morishima models of production. Our definition admits as special cases the classical definition of 'labour values' in Leontief models, as well as Morishima's definition of 'optimal values' in a von Neumann...

Two applications of the concept of statistical equilibrium, taken from statistical mechanics, are compared: a simple model of a pure exchange economy, constructed as an alternative to a walrasian exchange equilibrium, and a simple model of an industry, in which statistical equilibrium is used as...