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...

Socially necessary labour time is a key concept in Marxian economic theory. However it is hardly ever properly discussed. This article presents the English translation of a section of a textbook on political economy of socialism published in the former German Democratic Republic in 1974 by an...

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...

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...

Russian Abstract: В статье анализируются ошибочные аргументы Туган-Барановского, Борткевича и Стидмена, которые до сих пор используются критиками теории трансформации...