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... (an approach that would be further developed by Smith and Marx as appropriate to later economic and social conditions). [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Richard Cantillon land theory of value cost of production theory of value production with a surplus...

...Jorge Morales Meoqui With the famous numerical example of chapter 7 of the Principles (1817) David Ricardo intended to illustrate first and foremost the new proposition that his labor theory of value does not regulate the price of international transactions when the factors of production...

... views Cantillonʼs concept of intrinsic value as a cost- of-production theory of value based on the quantity of land and labor. The claim made here is that the standard interpretation represents a fun- damental misreading of Cantillon. Problems with the Standard Interpretation Anthony Brewer...

..., as much as today, were deeply concerned about the applicability of their general theory of value to the most impor- tant of all exchange phenomena, money. Just as the field of money and banking was then seen to be insufficiently integrated with the (objective) cost-of-production theory...

... significance” (Theories of surplus-value 111, 252). What distinguishes labour in the sphere of circulation is not whether it is productive or unproductive (for the sphere of circulation has both types: unproductive labour in ‘genuine costs’ and productive labour in ‘additional costs but its role...

... of the firm strongly suggests that he regarded the latter to be a non-statical study. 6. See Mark Blaug, ‘Marshallian economics: cost and supply,’ ch. 10of his Economic theory in retrospect; and Ragnar Frisch, ‘Alfred Marshall’s theory of value,’ Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1950 (based...

... 1926 article precisely this merit of the classical theory as a useful starting point: ‘. . . it emphasizes the fundamental factor, namely, the predominant influence of cost of production in the determination of the value of commodities while at the same time...

...‡ned his use of a labor theory of exchangeable value to an early and rude state of society in which inde- pendent laborers exchange the surplus products of their labor. As I pro- pose to establish, Smith continued to apply labor theory reasoning to the later commercial society, both to explain...

... indicate, in the course of this study, is that it was Thomas R. Malthus, rather than the utility theorist Jean Baptiste Say, who furnished Longfield with the tools he needed to combat Ricardo’s cost-of-production theory of market price. I shall argue that in the area of value theory, Longfield’s...

... of the classical theory of value. He regarded value as the “measure of the quantity of Land and of Labour entering into its production” (Desai 1967, 344). Adam Smith saw la- bor as the ideal measure of value because toil represents the true cost of the work effort, is invariable, and cuts across all...

... locates his ideas with respect to the other critics of the Ricardian doctrine. Senior, J. R. McCulloch, and John Stuart Mill, according to Ferrara, have all attempted to make sense out of the Ricardian theory of value without abandoning the theory of the cost of production, with the result of hinting...

... relevant for dealing with one set of questions and the other for an entirely different sort of questions . I think that the classical notion of cost, as quantities of things used up in production, is the most important from the point of view of the theory of value. In the determination of the price...

... : 429 -44. Wicksteed, P. [1910] 1957 . The Common Sense of Political Economy . London: Macmillan. Wieser, F. von. 1892 . The Theory of Value. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 3 : 600 -628. From Pain Cost to Opportunity Cost: The Eclipse of the Quality...

... more paid labor than the cost of the machines. Moszkowska argues that, although the organic composition increases with technical progress, labor productivity increases as well. The increase in productivity in turn decreases the value and the price of the constant capital and thereby...

... Real Cost, Labour, and Metaphysics: Sraffa on Alternative Theories of Value and Distribution and on Pareto's Distinction between ‘Literary’ and ‘Mathematical Economists.’ ” In Classical Economics, Keynes, and Money , edited by J. Eatwell , P. Commendatore , and N. Salvadori , 15...

... of the marginalist theory of value, are not enough to make Coase’s analysis subjectivist, in particular because it ignores the subjectivity on the production side.28 In his article on the pricing of decreasing-average-cost 28. As noted by a referee, in their typology of externalities, Buchanan...

..., along with other costs, to determine current period profits (JMK VII, p. 53). Keynes criticized classical value theory for neglecting these costs by defining supply net of user cost and demand inclusive of user cost. That is, the classical supply curve embodies marginal factor cost...

... trends are conditioned by the movement of the %atural” or long-run rate of profit. Hence, demand as well as cost of production has a bearing on the formation of normal or long-run price.6 In the Monthly Review of February 1826, J. R. McCulloch’s adherence to a labor theory of value...

... to distinguish between total and mar- ginal utility, value theory became essentially cost of production through Ricardo, J. S. Mill, Marx, to the 187O’s, when the so-called marginal utility revolution occurred which argued for utility as the ultimate deter- minant not only of exchange per se but also...

... developed by Mill (p. 584), who insists that we have to fall back upon an antecedent law, that of supply and demand, when the law of cost of production is not applicable. The essence of the labor theory of value lies, however, not so much in the proportionality of relative values...