This paper considers the pure labour theory of value and Böhm-Bawerk’s theory of capital as approximations of Sraffa’s model of single production, and tests them with data from the Symmetric Input-output Tables of the Finnish economy. The results show that (i) in comparison with the labour...

This paper argues that there exists an infinite number of numeraire-free measures (à la Steedman--Tomkins) of price--value deviation. On the empirical side it provides an illustration of those measures using input--output data from the Swedish economy. Copyright The Author 2010. Published by...

Chapter 1: Empirical Input–Output Representations and Transmutations of Actual Economies -- Chapter 2: Controllability, Observability and Spectral Post-Construction of the Value Theory -- Chapter 3: The Capital Theory Debate and the Almost Uncontrollability and Unobservability of Actual...

This book develops a unified treatment of the income distribution–capital–value problems with respect to actual economies, and then gradually turns to the issues of effective demand and capitalist accumulation fluctuations from both political economy and economic policy perspectives. That...