The classical market analysis has the characteristic of conceiving a reference situation independent from the competition forces. This article shows that such Pont of view is found in Smith, Ricardo and even Marx, but it has to be completed in order to be able to give it a fair evaluation.

In order to demonstrate the thesis based on the structural unstability of the capitalist system, classical and Marxist traditional theories must be able to integrate the ideas of market reproduction and circulation (value and money theories). This article shows that either Marx or Sraffa schemen...

The article develops the hypothesis according to which modern theory of prices fails to prove that the prices achieved in a situation of competitive equilibrium are actually market prices. The authors begins from the two main results of the modern theory of prices, the existence of prices of...

En la ciencia económica actual, las oposiciones doctrinales se han revelado mas fuertes y resistentes de lo que podría preverse a principios de los ochenta. Actuallmente existe un debate doctrinal importante entre doctrinas que, o bien no tienen un sustento teórico adecuado, o bien se apoyan...

Publicación del Doctorado en Ciencias económicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma Metropolitana -UNAM- de México y el Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991

Some difficulties in the analysis of the standard of value are pointed up trough successive examination of arbitrage in the Walrasian theory, the forms of value in the Marxian theory and the own rates of interest in the Keynesian theory.

Se habla recurrentemente de una crisis de la Teoría Económica. Nos parece posible sostener que el fundamento analítico general de todas las crisis posibles de la Economía Política reside en la incompatibilidad entre los objetivos asignados a la teoría económica -lo que se espera de ella-...

This article presents a recent interpretation of ricardian price theory. Some of Piero Sraffa's contributions allow us to show some important equivocations in Karl Marx's reading of Ricardo's theory and, also, the analytical brake between the marxist approach and its classical predecessor....